Ocasio-Cortez Jewish Ancestry Claim Stokes Controversy – The Forward:

Over the summer, Salazar received wide criticism after articles and op-eds questioned her claims of Sephardic heritage and other aspects of her Jewish identity (a spokesperson for Salazar declined to comment for this story). And while Warren’s camp assumed her DNA test would quell a backlash to her statements about Native American ancestry, it only provided fodder for further criticism that she is relying too heavily on controversial race science.

Wassner says that people who are overly concerned with proof are missing the upside. She said that many Latin Americans muse about Jewish ancestry as a way to have empathy for Jews. She pointed to the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who spoke about his possible Jewish heritage in the context of defending Jewish culture.

“There’s often been very visible talk about what happened to those people, is that a legacy we’re proud of, is that a legacy that applies to me?” Wassner said.

In an opinion essay for the Forward, Ashley Passmore, an assistant professor of German at Texas A&M University, wrote that accepting claims of Jewish ancestry like that of Ocasio-Cortez could lend American Judaism more allies.

Schoenberg acknowledges that there is a gatekeeping, elitist aspect to his and other genealogists’ concerns about proving Jewish ancestry. But, he says, the widespread claiming of Sephardic ancestry may have a sinister side-effect.

“We may be coming into a world where there are many times more Messianic Jews than what we would call Jews,” said Schoenberg. “And they might use this sense of, we are all Sephardic Jews, to change our ideas about who a Jew is.”

Ultimately, Schoenberg says, it’s good when people say they have Sephardic ancestry — perhaps it will make them less likely to be anti-Semitic. But he has a hard time getting past the trendiness.

The jews disagree on whether mischlings and wannabes are good for the jews.

Some of the trans-White tribe, especially of the right-posing alt-jew variety, seem angry about this and want to see her DNA test.

The problem with this standard historic narrative, that jews were oppressed and compelled to disguise themselves, is that it is a lie. In fact it is a lie about a lie. It all starts with the jews lying about what they all know is the congenital biological nature of jewing, pretending instead it is merely a religion or culture. Crypsis is a fundamental aspect of jewing which manifests itself over and over, regardless of which host jews impose themselves upon or how those hosts treat them. Disguise is the rule, at all times, because this enables jewing, enables subversion and exploitation of the host, confounding and confusing any resistance from the host.

The exception are those times and places where various symptoms of jewing have been recognized as harmful to the polity and illegalized by the host state. During the Inquisition, for example, openly organized jewing was banned and jews were compelled to either go elsewhere or “convert” to Christianity. Most jews understood they couldn’t stop jewing. Most Christians didn’t. Those jews who remained but continued jewing in secret simply chose to stick with and deepen the age-old characteristic jew deception.

So after centuries of jews preying upon Iberians the Iberians finally pushed back, slightly, and the jews one way or another just kept right on jewing. And for the past five hundred years jews have screeched about it, confirming that they distinguish themselves from Iberians by condemning Iberians for partially, temporarily, and ultimately ineffectively distinguishing themselves from jews.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals Jewish ancestry at Hanukkah celebration – The Washington Post:

“One of the things that we discovered about ourselves is that a very, very long time ago, generations and generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews,” Ocasio-Cortez said. These are Jews who settled in the Middle East, North Africa and southern Europe after the Jewish diaspora. They were expelled from Spain in 1492.

The announcement drew delight at the Jackson Heights Jewish Center. Someone in the audience at the event, organized by Jews For Racial and Economic Justice, made a remark, which can’t be heard in a video of the congresswoman-elect’s brief speech, but which seemed to embrace her as a fellow Jew. She replied, “He’s like, ‘I told you! I knew it! I sensed it!’”

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During the Hanukkah celebration on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez didn’t dwell on her own sense of Jewish identity but rather used her family’s history to make a case for cultural diversity.

Confirming once again that jew is a genetic trait, and furthermore, that mongrelization is no threat to jewing but part and parcel of it.