Ethiopian Jew Genetics!❌

A study by Lucotte and Smets has shown that the genetic father of Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) was close to the Ethiopian non-Jewish populations. This is consistent with the theory that Beta Israel are descendants of ancient inhabitants of Ethiopia, not the Middle East.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10592688/

"These data, together with those reported elsewhere (Ritte et al. 1993a,1993b; Hammer et al. 2000) suggest that the Ethiopian Jews acquired their religion without substantial genetic admixture from Middle Eastern peoples and that they can be considered an ethnic group with essentially a continental African genetic composition."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15300852/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC18733/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC447595/

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09103

A 2021 paper analyzing 1,214 individuals from 68 different Ethiopian ethnic groups, found that Ethiopian Semitic speakers sampled such as Beta Israel, were most similar to the Cushitic speaking Agaw and Qimant people.

"Third, we find unexpectedly high genetic similarities among groups classified into distantly related linguistic categories (Fig. 2b, Supplementary Fig. 8). For example, the AA-speaking Karo and Dasanech are on average more genetically similar to NS speakers than to other AA speakers. In contrast, the NS speaking Meinit and Berta are more similar to AA speakers. At a finer linguistic level, the AA Cushistic-speaking Agaw and Qimant are most genetically similar to sampled AA Semitic-speakers, with the Qimant and AA Semitic-speaking Beta Israel having been reported previously to be related linguistically to the Agaw."
👉🏿https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23712-w

👉🏿🔗https://anthromadness.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-jewishness-of-ethiopian-jews_7.html