[SolidWood]

Last time I checked Germans aren’t of semitic descent. The Ashkenazi are Hebrews who have to some extent mixed with the Germanic and Slavic populations of their host countries. This plus dominant inter-Ashkenanzi intermarriage makes them decidedly different from white Germans (who aren’t homogenous at all, with large Romanic and Slavic influences throughout the regions).

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Hmm, that’s interesting, because Indians in general, and Indian-ethnicity Americans specifically, are among the most genetically diverse populations one can hope to find.

[Cronos]

Ashkenazi Jews are Jews from Eastern Europe and Germany (as opposed to Iberian Jews from Spain/Portugal/France, Italian Jews, North African Jews, Yemeni Jews, Ethiopian Jews, Baghdadi and Bene-israeli (Indian) Jews).

The Jews would have intermarried with people from each of those regions, hence you have Jews like in Ethiopia who look like Ethiopians, Jews in india that speak Marathi-Hebrew (except for the Baghdadi Jews in parts of Bombay like Sassoon -- who gave the Sassoon docks there and who also are the reason why there is a station called "Masjid" -- hint, it's not because of a mosque, rather for a synagogue)

Jewish people retain some racial linkage to each other but do intermingle with others over the centuries, otherwise they would have died out like the Parsis are sadly on the verge of doing to themselves (I hope that doesn't happen)