AncestryDNA will be updating their results soon. Meanwhile, I found this – unfortunately – disgusting little tidbit: while Ancestry, for example, correctly categorizes African-American DNA under “Africa“, they continue to incorrectly categorize Jewish DNA under “Europe”. While they at least correctly acknowledge the African diaspora in the United States, they go out of their way to deny the Jewish Diaspora as a Middle Eastern Diaspora. In other words, they make a brazen point of showing confirmation and selection bias that borders on specifically Antisemitism. If Ancestry were categorizing African-American DNA under “Americas“, it would be equally as vile, denying the African Diaspora in the United States as an African diaspora.

After all, both the Jewish Diaspora in Europe (and elsewhere) and the African Diaspora in the Americas (and elsewhere) were caused by primarily significant trauma (which included invasion, kidnapping and enslavement, and forced colonization). I will be keeping a watch to see if Ancestry takes any part of this position alone seriously, and I will also watch to make sure that they do not deny any diaspora.