1. If our 5-year-olds start running away from you when they see
you coming because they can figure out that you are foreign
elements by the way you look,
2. if there are no people anywhere in the Middle East that are
related to you,
3. if there is no history of the European Jews having ever lived
anywhere in the Middle East,
4. if your language – Yiddish – was a completely alien language to
the Middle East region,
5. if your food – gefilte fish – was your very own that the people
of the Middle East knew nothing about,
6. if you have your very own 40 genetic diseases that are known as
‘Ashkenazi genetic diseases’,
7. if you have your very own 6 mental illnesses that are known as
‘Ashkenazi mental illnesses’,
8. if your own DNA has confirmed that you are 100% European,
9. what exactly is your connection to the Middle East?
