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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

An Israelite of any sort from 2000 years ago wouldn't have been any more white than a jew

[–]Dragonerne[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

People of the Levant were closer to modern Europeans genetically than to the modern middle east, they were also depicted as whites on mosaics etc.

[–]H3v8 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly, there were many clusters of Greek populations (and still exist till today).