The Sephardi basically *are* the same ethnicity as the Palestinians though, and I highly doubt the Ashkenazi are actual Hebrews either (unless Germans and Slavs are the real Hebrews, as thats whom the Ashkenazi seem to be mongrels of )
Ashkenazi come from the area of Ukraine. When Christians and Muslims started to project power into that region, threatening their banditry of the silk road, they converted to Judaism and subverted the elite of Europe and the Islamic world.
"Genocide" of whom, Goldman? Who was there before European Christians? Genocide is the complete or attempted extermination of a race, I dont think whites have ever successfully wiped out another race and took their land. The only weight this argument might hold is in the USA, where whites did genocide a couple of tribes, and even that argument is completely negated by the fact that the whites also stopped the tribes from *genociding each other* and ensured that they had reservations to continue their own racial stock on. No other race would have done this, had Chinese, or Japs, or Bantus, or other Amerindians been the colonizers, they would have killed all the men and then raped the women