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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 2h

Can you find the words ‘Moroccan’ and ‘Iranian’ on the chart, child? MENA= Middle East, North African. Good grief!

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 2h

Just blocking this, because it’s really stupid.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, you don’t like my term for Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal? LOL.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 2h

Here you go. Ashkenazis are 53-67% European, about ⅔ of the European genome being southern European and coming in before the genetic bottleneck, which was probably medieval. Medieval, by the way, means after the fall of Rome, and before the renaissance. SMH. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

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The time and place of European admixture in Ashkenazi Jewish history

Author summary The Ashkenazi Jewish population has resided in Europe for much of its 1000-year existence. However, its ethnic and geographic origins are controversial, due to the scarcity of reliable ...

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 2h

Oh good grief! Do you even know when the Neolithic was in the Levant? No, of course you don’t! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolith...

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Neolithic in the Near East - Wikipedia

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 3h

Well, half their DNA can be traced. More for Menahis, and far less for Ashkenazis. Yeah, you’re the kind of dick who reads something one time, and assumes the person who led you to it didn’t read it. Wait until you find out about the medieval bottleneck.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah. Man Utd. at least managed a draw.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 8h

Don’t try to patronize me, twit.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 8h

If we had DNA from that common ancestor, we could certainly establish descent from it.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 8h

No, we’re not. We have a common ancestor. Read a fricking book.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 8h

If you can't decide which Hebrew word it derives from, and there was a whole family of related Semitic languages at the time, it doesn't prove much, does it? And yes, English is my native language. Logic is not yours.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 8h

Here's a comparison of various groups' descent from Bronze Age DNA recovered from the Levant (Megiddo). I'd rub it in about the European contribution to Ashkenazi DNA, but it's actually a fairly low estimate. Palestinians are overwhelmingly descended from Palestinians 3000 years ago.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 8h

The thing I was amused by is your bifurcated etymology. 'Omri' is derived from this word in Hebrew. Or maybe it's this other word in Hebrew. But it's definitely Hebrew!

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 8h

Shouldn't foul a player breaking away while you're already on a yellow.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 9h

How did the Red Cartel do? (Checks notes). One reaming, one draw, and a narrow come from behind win. Good thing they have something to whine about.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 9h

As I would expect, you don't care about the Palestinian identity. The 'Jewish identity' does include millennia spent on another continent, yes?

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 9h

Well, it's easy when all the other Northwestern Semitic languages are dead, isn't it?

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 10h

Oh dear. You don't understand that it's setting up a baseline of studies so we can compare modern DNA with that baseline? No, of course you don't.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 11h

As for Omri, I'm not a scholar of Northwest Semitic Languages. I cited a source.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 11h

You said they were 'mutually contradictory'. You don't have to contradict them. You need to show how they contradict each other. To get started, this is the definitive study of ancient DNA in the Bronze and early Iron Age Levant. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant

We report genome-wide DNA data for 73 individuals from five archaeological sites across the Bronze and Iron Ages Southern Levant. These individuals, who share the “Canaanite” material culture, can be ...

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 11h

What this comes down to is what Judaism because separate from Canaanite syncretism. I think a minimal start point might be adoption of monotheism, and adoption of the Torah as an origin myth and religious canon. Most scholars date that to the return from Babylon.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 11h

The Elephantine colony, which left the Levant in the 7th century BCE, were not monotheistic. And there are lots of Asherah figurines from Judaea from about the same time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judean_...

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Judean pillar figure - Wikipedia

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 11h

Hang on, you said they were contradictory, but you don't know what they are? LOL. "The name "Omri" itself is puzzling to scholars. Its etymology is uncertain, and theories have proposed an origin in several Semitic languages." Better fix that wiki page!

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 12h

Really. Cite two population genetic studies of the Levant that contradict each other. And it doesn’t change the fact the stele you cite refers to Omri, as determined a polytheist as there ever was.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 12h

Ah yes, Omriide Israel, where polytheism was not just practiced but legally protected. Sure, date it back as long as you like. After all, Ethiopia is my homeland.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 12h

If your arbiter of truth is the narrative of a 6 day creation, then I suppose the dozens of scientific studies of ancient DNA and population genetics are ‘dubious’.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 13h

He hasn’t yet caught himself on.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 13h

Its name under the 1948 constitution? Or was that the 1938 constitution?

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, by the way, it’s Éire, not eire, which means ‘a burden’. The fada is not optional.

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 13h

"Fetterman largely holes up in his Capitol office, lying on the couch and scrolling Apple News, several former staffers said. "'Every day was a battle that by the end of the day you were physically and emotionally battered just by getting John to do any part of his job,' a former staffer said...."

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How John Fetterman spends his time comes under more scrutiny as he weighs future in the Senate

The Pennsylvania Democrat has been labeled an absentee senator for years. As he floats the possibility of running again, what has he actually done?

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 13h

Portnoy couldn’t find his arse with both hands.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 13h

Oh it’s the 1937 Constitution now? Previously you said it was the 1948 Constitution, and then the 1938 Constitution.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 13h

First it was 1948. Now it’s 1938. Actually, it was 1937, orange boy.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 13h

“It is hereby declared that the description of the State shall be the Republic of Ireland.” 1948 Republic of Ireland Act.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 13h

There is no such thing as the 1948 Constitution Act. Do you mean the Republic of Ireland Act? The one that says “It is hereby declared that the description of the State shall be the Republic of Ireland.”

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 13h

You mean the 1937 Constitution? Oh, sorry, it’s only a constitution when the British say so?

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t play that game. Don’t post partial lies and rely on me to ferret out the truth. Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 14h

Algerian Jews were French. They almost all went back to France. What would you call that?

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 14h

Then it's not metaphorical, is it? Is English your first language? (Leaving aside whether Canaanite idol-worshippers were properly called Jews, and whether someone with 40% descent from them can refer to Palestine as a homeland)

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

...and it was a truly terrible game!

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