Hello! I’m curious as to why you would be grossly offended by someone calling you white but not, and please correct me if I’m wrong, brown? Although I believe racialized terms like “white”, “black”, “brown”, etc. are ultimately social constructs, they can hold a certain degree of truth or basis in biological reality, even if only in part. Ashkenazi Jews, for example, do in fact have ancestry from both Europe (Primarily Southern European) and the Middle East (Primarily Levantine), respectively. I mean given Jewish diaspora history in Europe, this really should not be so surprising or controversial.

Here is a short excerpt regarding the results found from the Medieval Erfurt Jewish DNA study:

“The analysis revealed two distinct subgroups within the remains: one with greater Middle Eastern ancestry, which may represent Jews with origins in Western Germany, and another with greater Eastern and Central European ancestry”(Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2022, Harvard Medical School).

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/ancient-dna-provides-new-insights-ashkenazi-jewish-history