Palestinians are Semites, genetically virtually indistinguishable from Jews, both Sephardic Jews and Ashkenazi Jews.
Palestinians are Semites, genetically virtually indistinguishable from Jews, both Sephardic Jews and Ashkenazi Jews.
I don't believe being of Semitic origin is true of a great many of the Ashkenazi who were actually Caucasians and who had
adopted Judaism for largely political reasons during the period of the Khazari kingdom.
The Khazars lived in the area of the southern steppes of Russia down through the Caucuses region, almost to Turkey. It was from this population that the large percentage of European Jews originated genetically, not from the Semitic peoples of the Middle East and North Africa. Hence, the same non-Semitic Khazari Jews' [Ashkenazi] descendents would appear to have no legitimate "genetic" claim to some "Semitic homeland" in that region at all.
The Sephardic Jews, being historically Semitic, would. However, it seems that they are not really that much into Zionism. This situation is discussed further here below in addition to other places:
Khazari Jewish History