<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Cato's Substack]]></title><description><![CDATA[My personal Substack]]></description><link>https://americancato.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gCT2!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F99ebe401-8d08-4e34-967c-37b29fee4d34_680x680.png</url><title>Cato&apos;s Substack</title><link>https://americancato.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:41:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://americancato.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Cato]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[americancato@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[americancato@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Cato]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Cato]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[americancato@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[americancato@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Cato]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA["Ashkenazi Jews are from Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[European Jewry largely descends from ancient Levantines with admixture from the Mediterranean based on consensus historiography and genetic data.]]></description><link>https://americancato.substack.com/p/ashkenazi-jews-are-from-europe</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://americancato.substack.com/p/ashkenazi-jews-are-from-europe</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cato]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:52:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zt9s!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87c1bdf0-e12d-4bd0-a112-2bdc61a914dd_1280x720.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many proponents of the pro-Palestinian cause have utilized an argument emphasizing the unique nativity and indigeneity of Palestinians to the land in opposition to their &#8220;Israeli Occupiers&#8221;. Leftists very easily translate their usual arguments consisting of anti-colonialist and anti-White sentiment and cast it onto the Zionist project in Israel. They ascribe Jews to be white. Then they consider anyone that distinguishes Jews from Whites to be Nazis. Therefore to them, Israel is yet another example of a colonial White supremacist onslaught of settlers onto black and brown peoples that has been repeated evermore as a model since Columbus. </p><p>Side note before continuing: many Israelis are exceptionally <em>brown</em>. Most of these individuals belong to an identity bridging an overlap of the Sephardic/Mizrahi Jewish communities. It is the fact that <em>Ashkenazim</em> have all recently lived in Europe within the last century and a half, they dominate much of Israeli society, and are the richest, most powerful Jewish group, that this accusation of Israelis (Ashkenazim) being White racist colonizers is made. It should also be considered that it is not at all uncommon to find <em>Palestinians</em> with fair eyes and hair, and Europid or white-looking traits. For instance, unquestionable natives of other parts of the levant are exceptionally &#8220;white-looking&#8221;. See below: Former Presidents of Syria and Lebanon respectively, Bashar Al-Assad (tall, lanky, with white skin and blue eyes) and Camille Chamoun (could easily be mistaken for a Greek or other Mediterranean white person). The point is that these individuals, who nobody disputes as being natives, don&#8217;t look like brown, desert-dwelling Yemenites like Osama Bin Laden or Mohamed bin Salman as much as leftists would like it to be so.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://americancato.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Cato's Substack! 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What leftists think the &#8220;native&#8221; people of the region <em>should</em> look like. </figcaption></figure></div><p>Side Note 2 before continuing: Ironically, some of the most prominent right-wing, &#8220;racist&#8221;, ultra-Zionist figures in Israel such as Itamar Ben-Gvir (open Jewish supremacist) and Yigal Amir (the Rabin assassin) are Mizrahi; and therefore very, very brown. No sane person would look upon these two individuals and say &#8220;Ha! That&#8217;s a Ukrainian, go back to Europe you Zionist colonizer!&#8221; No actually, every reasonable person can look at them and agree that these two individuals belong right there in the sandbox where they currently reside.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zt9s!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87c1bdf0-e12d-4bd0-a112-2bdc61a914dd_1280x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zt9s!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87c1bdf0-e12d-4bd0-a112-2bdc61a914dd_1280x720.jpeg 424w, 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The purpose of this article is not to be partisan propaganda. All of the information is verifiable and credible. However, the leftist argument mentioned in the first paragraph about how the Jews are somehow doing the bidding for global white supremacy Nazi colonialism, an assertion which has been hounded into everyone&#8217;s ears for the last two years, must be confronted and ridiculed.</p><p>Also, puzzlingly, this argument that Ashkenazim are whites that belong in Europe has even been employed by people associated with the often openly pro-Hitler, conspiratorial right. I have observed countless memes and statements from figures like Dan Bilzerian, SNEAKO, Jake Shields, Candace Owens, Stew Peters and Dr. Loupis, as well as a mountain of very popular faceless &#8220;JQ&#8221; accounts on X echoing this same sentiment. Discourse commonly goes something along the lines of &#8220;did you know DNA tests are banned in Israel?&#8221;, &#8220;why, you may ask?&#8221;, &#8220;well, it is because the Jews are really just ethnically Polish and Russian, and they are dispossessing the native brown people in their indigenous land&#8221;. </p><p>Firstly, the assertions in this argument are on one hand, incomprehensibly low-IQ, brown-coded, and anti-white, especially for someone with a &#8220;right-wing&#8221; disposition. But more importantly, the premises are also patently false. </p><h3>DNA tests banned in Israel?</h3><p>While it is true that DNA tests are heavily<em> regulated</em> (not banned)(and selling your DNA to billion-dollar corporations is stupid goyim activities anyway) in Israel, the necessary assumption of that statement would still be irrelevant. Since the 1990s, scientists have fully sequenced the entire human genome. We have open access to the genetic distance/clustering data from essentially all regions and ethnicities on earth. That includes access to thousands upon thousands of DNA samples from Ashkenazi Jewish individuals. That is why if individuals of Ashkenazi descent take a commercial DNA heritage test, the company will identify their DNA with the distinct genetic cluster of &#8220;Ashkenazi Jewish&#8221;. Despite their ancestors being recent emigres from Eastern Europe, they belong to a distinct lineage that recently lived in that region. The 23andme results for Benjamin Netanyahu would (by all presumed evidence) not come out as &#8220;Polish&#8221; or &#8220;Eastern European&#8221;, but rather &#8220;Ashkenazi Jew&#8221;. Even if DNA tests were outright banned in Israel, there wouldn&#8217;t be any secret or conspiratorial set of results that would commence if Israelis took them. Israelis would receive the same results that all of their Jewish counterparts worldwide receive when they take these tests.</p><h3>Okay, so are Jews really Middle Eastern?</h3><p>The test of importance here is whether or not Ashkenazi Jewish people&#8217;s DNA clusters close to those from the levant, especially procured genetic samples from the <em>ancient</em> levant. This would indicate that their ancestors were there <em>before</em> the destruction of the second temple in 70 AD and the dispersion thereafter. If the data indicates not, considering the aforementioned accusations, Jews would likely be &#8220;white&#8221; through some probable combination of Germanic, Slavic, and other European ancestries. There are also other theories like that of the Khazar Hypothesis discussed later in this article that serves as another option for Ashkenazi origins if they are not from the Middle East. These assumptions would reflect their prolonged tenure in these regions, and that Ashkenazi Jews originated in Europe. </p><p>(Scroll to the bottom for a TLDR)</p><p>The data is very straightforward in its answer. According to genomic data in the studies cited below, 90% of the paternal y-DNA haplogroup of Ashkenazim traces back to the Near East/Levant. At a lesser rate, about 50% of the maternal DNA of Ashkenazi Jews traces back to the Near East/Levant. This indicates that there are more European, non-Middle Eastern female ancestors than male ancestors of the same background for Ashkenazim.</p><p>When prompted to &#8220;concisely summarize&#8221; the studies below among other reputable scientific publications on the issue, ChatGPT stated the following: &#8220;Paternal lineages predominantly trace to Near Eastern haplogroups common among Jewish and Middle Eastern populations, while maternal lineages show a larger component of European diversity, consistent with historical mixing with local populations during diasporic settlement.&#8221;</p><p>Below are studies to explore in detail. For sake of brevity and the fact that I can&#8217;t write articulately about the scientific study of genetics, this article will now move on to explain <em>how</em> Ashkenazi ancestry formed.</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1086/324070">The Y chromosome pool of Jews as part of the genetic landscape of the Middle East. </a></p><p><a href="https://systemsbiology.columbia.edu/news/study-sheds-light-on-ashkenazi-jewish-genome-and-ancestry">A study that establishes a significantly different genomic profile for Ashkenazim from Europeans</a></p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3928">Phylogenetic applications of whole Y-chromosome sequences and the Near Eastern origin of Ashkenazi Levites.</a></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.06.013">Continuity and admixture in the last five millennia of Levantine history from ancient Canaanite and present-day Lebanese genome sequences.</a></p><h3>The True Origins of Ashkenazim</h3><p>The history behind the Ashkenazi lineage is exceptional for its cultural and religious significance. Around the time of Jesus and the Roman Empire, there were extensive male-dominated Jewish communities settled in Italy. Urban centers in southern Italy and Sicily held tens of thousands of Jews. Rome itself is estimated to have had a population of 30,000-50,000 Jews alone. There may have even been a synagogue in Rome by the time of Caesar. This would be an important signal of presence for the intolerant, pagan Romans to pay lip service and accommodate an exclusive and hostile monotheistic god for non-Romans in their capital city.  </p><p>Before the Pharisaic Halakhic ordinance of the necessity of matrilineal descent for Jews, and considering the historical patriarchy of the religion, many of these Jewish men married local Italian women and had them converted to Judaism. Eventually, over the first few centuries AD, these Italian Jewish communities migrated North during the decline of Roman influence. It was from these communities in what is now Germany, that Ashkenazim were born. </p><p>This population was extremely small, perhaps only a few thousand at the turn of the millennia. What then occurred through the progression of the centuries from the Middle and Medieval ages to modern times was a population bottleneck. High, endogamous birth rates and prosperity catapulted Jews from an ancestral population of just thousands, into millions in 20th century Europe.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/science/ashkenazi-jews-genetic-history.html">Jews may be the most inbred population in the world</a></p><h3>Khazarian Hypothesis and other nonsense</h3><p>There are also other wild theories that have gained more traction since October 7th. Let&#8217;s discuss a few of them. One claim I have seen made by Dan Bilzerian and others is that Netanyahu&#8217;s real name is Polish and he changed his name to better fit as an occupant of the Middle East. The reader should be able to see where this is going&#8230;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XPt2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b70d980-5d67-4fa4-8e4e-16ea705cadb1_846x709.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XPt2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b70d980-5d67-4fa4-8e4e-16ea705cadb1_846x709.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XPt2!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b70d980-5d67-4fa4-8e4e-16ea705cadb1_846x709.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XPt2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b70d980-5d67-4fa4-8e4e-16ea705cadb1_846x709.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XPt2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b70d980-5d67-4fa4-8e4e-16ea705cadb1_846x709.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XPt2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b70d980-5d67-4fa4-8e4e-16ea705cadb1_846x709.png" width="846" height="709" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6b70d980-5d67-4fa4-8e4e-16ea705cadb1_846x709.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:709,&quot;width&quot;:846,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:97154,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://americancato.substack.com/i/184512302?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b70d980-5d67-4fa4-8e4e-16ea705cadb1_846x709.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XPt2!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b70d980-5d67-4fa4-8e4e-16ea705cadb1_846x709.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XPt2!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b70d980-5d67-4fa4-8e4e-16ea705cadb1_846x709.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XPt2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b70d980-5d67-4fa4-8e4e-16ea705cadb1_846x709.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XPt2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b70d980-5d67-4fa4-8e4e-16ea705cadb1_846x709.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>So yeah, this is dumb. As explained earlier, the Jews are genetically and fully culturally descended from the Middle East. The irony is that the name <em>Mileikowsky</em> is actually much more of a stolen name than Netanyahu is. Mileikowsky is evidently a Polish name and Netanyahu&#8217;s non-Polish ancestors adopted it to better blend in with their surrounding Polish countrymen as Ashkenazi Jews. Netanyahu is a Hebrew word that means &#8220;Gift of God&#8221;. One may not consider the meaning of the word to be befitting of its holder, but at least its in Hebrew.</p><p>The other theory is that of the Khazarian Hypothesis. The following quote tweet and series of replies by Keith Woods on X is a good refutation and record of discourse on this topic.</p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1954594017120862222&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;The Khazar theory is wrong. Recent studies on Khazar skeletons show they have no connection to Ashkenazi Jews, and genetic studies of Jews show they retain their Middle-Eastern ancestry.\n\nIt's funny how Candace apparently distrusts Jewish sources on everything else, but doesn't&quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;KeithWoodsYT&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Keith Woods&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1938169787005157376/ptrbsXSs_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-08-10T17:21:42.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Abraham Pollak was an Israeli historian and founder of the department of Middle Eastern history at Tel Aviv University. He was awarded the &#8220;Prize for Jewish thought&#8221; in 1943 for researching and determining that modern Jews are actually Khazars who mass converted to Judaism.&quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;RealCandaceO&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Candace Owens&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2008001395589316609/0QORb4sg_normal.jpg&quot;},&quot;reply_count&quot;:247,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:278,&quot;like_count&quot;:3142,&quot;impression_count&quot;:328599,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>In the replies, a fake study is cited, presumably where Bilzerian also sourced his information on the matter of some &#8220;97% of Jews having no connection to Israel&#8221;.</p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1954659757890982070&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;<span class=\&quot;tweet-fake-link\&quot;>@austinoaksfc</span> No I know the study you're talking about, and that he had to correct this misrepresentation of it going around &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;KeithWoodsYT&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Keith Woods&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1938169787005157376/ptrbsXSs_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-08-10T21:42:56.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/media/GyBYsPHXEAAmGK1.jpg&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/wjKcqFbkfE&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:5,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:2,&quot;like_count&quot;:67,&quot;impression_count&quot;:3187,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>There&#8217;s not much else to say about the Khazarian theory and the angle taken by its proponents. Its assumptions are contradictory and not supported by evidence. It is also precarious how it is often these &#8220;JQ&#8221; types that propose this thesis.</p><p>This is a hypothesis that disconnects modern Ashkenazim from ancient Jewry, absolving the ancient Jews and uninterrupted Pharisaic tradition while alienating and demonizing the Ashkenazi &#8220;imposters&#8221;. It states that <em>only Ashkenazim</em> are the so called &#8220;bad Jews&#8221; that are responsible for infiltrating all religions like a mafia, charging interest at high rates, manipulating countries into war with each other, and all the other conspiracies ascribed to Jews.</p><p>A great justification of Jewish persecution throughout history has been the charge of deicide, the killing of Jesus. "His blood be on us, and on our children" (Matthew 27:25"). If the Ashkenazim are really Khazars, why wouldn&#8217;t they be upfront about their false identity to absolve themselves from this blood curse that the Europeans held over their head? </p><p>Also, another popular anecdote cited by some of these influencers is the &#8220;gates of Toledo&#8221;.</p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/DanBilzerian/status/1821370766320935121&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;<span class=\&quot;tweet-fake-link\&quot;>@DrEliDavid</span> A more accurate analogy would be the gates of Toledo&quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;DanBilzerian&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Dan Bilzerian&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1841837652443856898/IqxLiFXL_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2024-08-08T02:20:04.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:49,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:117,&quot;like_count&quot;:2611,&quot;impression_count&quot;:90857,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>In 711AD, Visigothic Spain, the local Sephardic Jewish community is said (by sources on both sides of the conflict) to have assisted the Muslim invaders in their conquest of the capital city. The Sephardic Jews descend from Jewish populations moving to the furthest Western, and Latin regions of the Roman Empire (Iberia) after their dispersal from Judea in the first and second centuries AD.</p><p><a href="https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&amp;author=pinay&amp;book=plot2&amp;story=betray">More in-depth overview of this event</a></p><p>This Toledo episode is used by these same critics as a more ancient example of reasons to distrust Jews. However, ascribed in their same line of theories includes modern Ashkenazim, the Rothschilds, who &#8220;control all the banks and cause all the wars&#8221;. But remember, those Rothschilds are actually just Khazars <em>pretending</em> to be Jews. So which is it? The Khazarian conversion is said to have happened after this Toledo incident (late 700&#8217;s), albeit thousands of miles away. The two can&#8217;t possibly be connected, but converge into the same argument of Jewish &#8220;wickedness" throughout history.</p><p>The reality is that all of the central Jewish groups in the world (Ashkenazim, Sephardic, and Mizrahi) are closely related. The origin of Ashkenazim is not from some obscure Turkic tribe. They are from the Middle East, as demonstrated throughout this article. </p><p>In the future, I may do a part two reviewing more ideas in this collection of nonsense. It may be necessary to confront this Frankist theory that Candace Owens has been running with. It would also be helpful to conduct a deeper analysis of the term &#8220;indigenous&#8221; and how it is applied to this issue as well as broader history and meta-politics. </p><p></p><h3>TLDR</h3><p>About 90% of the paternal haplogroup DNA of Ashkenazi Jews trace back to the levant. Approximately 50% of their maternal DNA trace back to the levant. The greatest source of non-Levantine admixture is from the broader Mediterranean region, specifically southern Italy. Therefore Ashkenazi Jews are primarily middle eastern and their greatest source of admixture is from another phenotypically similar population (by relative standards; southern Italians = Mediterranean-looking, strong nose, olive skin, body hair, etc.). Note that there are long-standing jokes and stereotypes in areas like New York City that indicate the visually evident similarities in appearance that southern Italians and Ashkenazi Jews possess.  Lastly, after this ancient mixing (ended by 4th century AD), Ashkenazi Jews have largely maintained the same ethnic and phenotypical disposition for the last 1500+ years. Through the middle and medieval ages, where they experienced great persecution from Europeans, they remained generally endogamous. Jews have always been described with the same conspicuous traits by Europeans. A long-hooked nose, excessive body hair, short and frail, with long dark coil-like curly hair. This made Ashkenazim stand out in the Germanic and Slavic regions of Europe that they lived in for thousands of years. This is because they have always been Semites rather than Europeans. They often couldn&#8217;t blend in. These physical distinctions &#8220;otherized&#8221; them to further facilitate the discrimination and persecution they faced.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://americancato.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Cato's Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Run or Fight ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 2 Options For Every Gen Z White Male.]]></description><link>https://americancato.substack.com/p/run-or-fight</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://americancato.substack.com/p/run-or-fight</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cato]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:23:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3e541d1e-b419-496a-88ff-64eb0d2072dd_527x773.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay so you know the truth. You must either run or fight.</p><h3>If I Ran?</h3><p>If I ran, I would have to maximize the accumulation of personal wealth and experiences. The big difference here is the embracing of complete and total <em>individuality</em>. I couldn&#8217;t see myself as part of any group. I would likely be religious, but mainly as a cope, a backup so that I won&#8217;t cease to exist after death. My life&#8217;s joys would be focused on the axiom of &#8220;work hard, play hard&#8221;. I would need to savor all that is sensual, namely food, comfort, and sex. I would need to find the utmost satisfaction in non-sensual endeavors as well. Simple gratitude, nightly wood fires, and consuming constantly about other worlds through old books and media. I would yearn for the past considering that I know the truth about it.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://americancato.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Cato's Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>I would need to constantly relocate to the places with the least diversity to shelter and bubble my experiences. I may travel recreationally to experience the world. I may not. I may prioritize personal and purposeless risk-taking/adventure just for the sake of the thrill. I also, may not.</p><p>If I ran, I couldn&#8217;t have children. I couldn&#8217;t possibly look into the eyes of my son, with the same boyish wonder and imagination that I had. The same mind and identity as me. Literally the same genetics and spirit as me. The same reverence and obsession for the Faustian achievements of humanity. An appreciation for depth, honor, history and sanctity. Caring more about than what is just base and frivolous. The conquests of Napoleon. Master and Commander. Caesar. Hunting and sailing the seas. Exploring. All of the media as a kid, magic tree house, the hero&#8217;s journey. All of these things mesmerize him. He is hypnotized. The young white boy wants nothing more. As his father who knows the explicable truth, who has read about the great men, who has seen all the media, pictures and videos from the turn of the century before the world wars. Who has dreamed and had the same wonder for the world as his own progeny. His father who has seen the degradation in real time. His father who observes his son&#8217;s classes get more and more diverse. Even if I ran and didn&#8217;t fight, some white people would. This resistance, even if just a small subset of the remaining white people, undoubtedly creates a blanket antipathy towards him in his classes. An attack so much further and integrated than even my generation ever felt in the media and the ridiculous popular myths widely believed about us during <em>my</em> upbringing. If he has friends at all, they are not like him. In the case that his passion and wonder may not be utterly destroyed, it will be directed into something materialistic and frivolous. See professional sports, retard streaming, and whatever hyper-individualistic spiritless vanity Andrew Tate promotes as goals for young men. I would have to be able to look my young boy in the eye knowing that I didn&#8217;t fight for him. I brought him into the world, knowing the world that our ancestors lived in, even at the most basic existence of being empowered and in a state of self-determination, never mind the conquest and everything, and he would be deprived of it. How could he start a family? His run or fight would be much harder than mine. He would be forced into being even more pathetic and submissive than my run would be. If I ran, his fight would also be much harder than if I had started it for him. I couldn&#8217;t possibly get married and have a family. That would be a rejection of the all-encompassing individuality, and as I mentioned before, that is the only way this option can work.</p><p>If I run, I know I couldn&#8217;t leave this earth with <em>no</em> regrets. I could live a damn good life. I could discipline myself and maybe even live long on the run. I&#8217;d likely have dogs. Maybe a horse. I always wanted to do that. I could make some friends who&#8217;d stay with me until the end and I might not be <em>totally</em> alone. There would be a dissonance deep in my soul. It couldn&#8217;t be shaken. That same thought on my last day. My final minutes on the death bed. What if I did something? Everything could fail and collapse with the same outcome, but I still could have done something. I wouldn&#8217;t be able to die with peace from my earthly conduct. </p><p>If I ran, I couldn&#8217;t have children. I would have to look in the eyes of my daughter knowing she will be forever chained. She will either be totally suppressed or more likely caught up into the machine of self-hatred. Eventually marrying someone of a different race.</p><h3>If I Fight.</h3><p>If I fight, the amount of hatred that would be centered on people with my views would rival and squash any other time in human history. Vitriolic hate. Hate against Jesus Christ by the Pharisees. The hate against Adolf Hitler x 100 except we are actually alive and facing the hate in a multi-layered, all-encompassing attack. They will cheer on the upmost suffering and difficulty for me. They will also feel that way towards my son. My son who has all the innocent boyish wonder in the world, birthed into a world that hates him. Hates him with a magnitude of emotion never recorded before. My daughter and wife would either be estranged and seeking to separate themselves from me for their own safety and natural feminine self-preservative inclinations. Or if they stuck with me, their rapes and deaths would be encouraged, cheered and hoped for by billions.</p><p>If I fight, I would have to view the world totally objectively. I would have to focus on accumulation, but not for my own individuality and the run. It would be for the group and the fight. The accumulation of power, almost pathologically, would be what so much of my material human experience would be staked upon. </p><p>If I fight, I would have to have the courage to truly <em>love</em>. A persistent intimacy that is in fact, much easier if avoided, like I have in my life thus far. If I fight, it would be a much harder life. If I fight, I would have to reject much of my individuality. I would have to &#8220;take the red pill and not eat the steak&#8221;. The truth would have to be totally absorbed, then embraced. A lot of the truth will be discovered within a care for the group and not just myself. Our group&#8217;s existence. Our group&#8217;s empowerment and self-determination. A burden that is so much harder to bare than that of just my own life.</p><p>If I fight, comfort and sensual pleasures would quickly dissipate and the possibility for them to occur would become more and more infrequent. </p><p>But if i fight, my son would adjust. That wonder, that precious imagination and inclination towards the world that I had too wouldn&#8217;t be suppressed, squandered or subverted. Actually, it may even be enhanced. With a great and righteous purpose, some of his craziest dreams may even be realized! Think if Alexander or Caesar or whoever was born into this environment. Pressure creates diamonds. I love and support my boy. He is here for a reason and he knows that. He is important. If a man truly internalizes that, he has everything he could ever want. Whatever struggle my boy faces, he will not be ruined, it would have all been worth something great. His boyhood is actually preserved and not destroyed. His wonder is enhanced, reaching boundless levels and ambition and never suppressed like it would have been if I ran. </p><p>But if i fight, those on our team and I exist to protect my wife and daughter. That is much of the reason we do this in the first place. My wife and daughter wouldn&#8217;t be hurt by them without getting through us. And it is with the men who <em>run</em> that women are repulsed by. Even if danger awaits, a woman will throw herself into danger and death quicker than any organism on earth if her man and boys are fighters. </p><p>But if I fight, I could look myself in the mirror and respect what reflects off of it. If I fight, I have a real reason to wake up in the morning. </p><h3>Call to Action</h3><p>I can&#8217;t really assert that there is a right or wrong answer. At least, it wouldn&#8217;t be a simple argument to make for either side, nor would it be an objective one. I do have one warning I will issue before you make your decision. There actually is one <em>wrong</em> answer. </p><p>Time consumes all. This decision can not be stalled. This decision loses its weight every day you sit on the fence. Every day you scroll twitter and Instagram reels angering yourself over the political and emotionally-charged content you view without committing to a decision is the <em>wrong</em> answer. You will die. I will die. Even if we win our war in the most convincing fashion, our people will eventually die out someday. There is no time to waste. The decision can&#8217;t be chosen for you. Nobody is coming to save you. The decision must be made.</p><p>Father Time is undeniably a black pill. The gravity and weight of time <em>will</em> consume us all. However, with every action, there is always an equal and opposite reaction. That gravity and weight can also be the very thing that saves you and our people as a whole. Time truly does heal. Time truly does ease and even facilitate <em>change</em>. 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