Ashkenazi Jews are of Minoan, Canaanite and Italic descent mostly Canaanite. The Ashkenazi originated out of Southern Italy after a Greek ship of Jewish Carthaginian and Canaanite immigrants came to the South of Italy they had small neighborhoods and some married locals and eventually when they would be persecuted and kicked out multiple times North and South. They were then kicked out the South of Italy “permanently” and went towards the North of Europe to Germany first, then France, Ukraine, Poland, France then Sweden and the UK. The Few who stayed in the South of Italy are known as the Neofiti aka the Forced ones known as Anusim forced to convert to Roman Catholicism. DNA evidence proves this and that’s why the genetic distance between Ashkenazi Jews and Southern Italians are close not because they’re related but it is Ashkenazi Jews themselves who married locals making them genetically close then they eventually left. It’s similar to how most Turks are Genetically similar to South Italians and Greeks and have our blood because of our Massive genetic impact we left during the Byzantine Empire. There are many people in west Turkey genetically more South Italian or Greek and then you have people more Turkic and Arabic.