Archived copy of a scientific paper showing that Middle Eastern Jewish people and Palestinians are genetically indistinguishable. The paper was censored from the journal which originally published it, Human Immunology, despite it not being scientifically refuted.

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Critics of the article complained that it was politically "extreme", and the journal, Human Immunology, caved in and removed it from their website. They also wrote to libraries and universities asking them to physically rip out the pages containing the article. More information is here in the Guardian.

Abstract

The genetic profile of Palestinians has, for the first time, been studied by using human leukocyte antigen (HLA) gene variability and haplotypes. The comparison with other Mediterranean populations by using neighbor-joining dendrograms and correspondence analyses reveal that Palestinians are genetically very close to Jews and other Middle East populations, including Turks (Anatolians), Lebanese, Egyptians, Armenians and Iranians. Archaeologic and genetic data support that both Jews and Palestinians came from the ancient Canaanites, who extensively mixed with Egyptians, Mesopotamian and Anatolian peoples in ancient times. Thus, Palestinian Jewish rivalry is based in cultural and religious, but not in genetic, differences. The relatively close relatedness of both Jews and Palestinians to western Mediterranean populations reflects the continuous circum-Mediterranean cultural and gene flow that have occurred in prehistoric and historic times. This flow overtly contradicts the demic diffusion model of western Mediterranean populations substitution by agriculturalists coming from the Middle East in the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition.