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2025-04-01 22:09:28 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

No Johns Hopkins study exists that claims, or supports the claim, that Israeli Jews lack "ancient Hebrew DNA." This claim has been disproven as based on unrelated & criticized research published in 2013 that did not involve Israeli Jewish test subjects. https://databases.library.jhu.edu/?q=Hebrew%20DNA#:~:text=No%20Databases%20Found https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/study-misrepresented-in-jewish-ancestry-claim/#:~:text=confirmed%20his%20study%20did%20not%20look%20at%20Israeli%20Jews https://www.logicallyfacts.com/en/fact-check/no-study-suggests-jews-lack-hebrew-dna https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3543766/ https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2013/12/20/new-genetic-study-more-evidence-for-modern-ashkenazi-jews-ancient-hebrew-patrimony/ https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol85/iss6/9 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.13.491805v1 https://bioone.org/journals/human-biology/volume-85/issue-6/027.085.0604/No-Evidence-from-Genome-Wide-Data-of-a-Khazar-Origin/10.3378/027.085.0604.short

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• No Johns Hopkins study exists that claims, or supports the claim, that Israeli Jews lack "ancient Hebrew DNA." This claim has been disproven as based on unrelated & criticized research published in 2013 that did not involve Israeli Jewish test subjects. https://databases.library.jhu.edu/?q=Hebrew%20DNA#:~:text=No%20Databases%20Found https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/study-misrepresented-in-jewish-ancestry-claim/#:~:text=confirmed%20his%20study%20did%20not%20look%20at%20Israeli%20Jews https://www.logicallyfacts.com/en/fact-check/no-study-suggests-jews-lack-hebrew-dna https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3543766/ https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2013/12/20/new-genetic-study-more-evidence-for-modern-ashkenazi-jews-ancient-hebrew-patrimony/ https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol85/iss6/9 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.13.491805v1 https://bioone.org/journals/human-biology/volume-85/issue-6/027.085.0604/No-Evidence-from-Genome-Wide-Data-of-a-Khazar-Origin/10.3378/027.085.0604.short