Yeah, I've heard reports from a person who is part of the Palestinian diaspora who took a genetic test and was unaware that the company they did it with was Israeli. They got back results stating that they were approximately 50% in a broad Arab category.
They redid their genetic test with a non-Israeli company and got a much more accurate Levantine result.
Make of that whatever you will. Maybe there's differences in how they analyse the data but I would be wholly unsurprised if an Israeli genetic testing company was making a concerted effort to erase Palestinian identity by fudging results to skew the interpretation.
for me, it's giving the same vibes as the military running ads on hasan's twitch stream. that's just a donation at that point, you don't really have to worry about hakim's audience being susceptible to this i think.
He didn't know it was an Israeli company and apologized in the comments
@YaBoiHakim
1 hour ago
I had no idea, I'll cancel the planned integrations. The contact person that gets these ad integrations knows I don't accept Israeli sponsors, so I assumed they checked. I'll be sure to talk to them too, thanks for letting me know!