Was The Ancient Levant, White?Quick notes:—Ancient Israelites ≠ Ancient Levantines. Israelites colonized the Levant from the locals, it would be absurd to conflate the two (both were White however).
—Jews ≠ Ancient Israelites.
—Europeans ≠ Ancient Israelites (both were White however, with similar ancestry: more).
We understand today that Middle Easterners aren't White, but this was not always the case; and "Middle Eastern" itself isn't a real ethnic group: it's mongrelised.
Modern Middle Easterners (and all Jews) are essentially light skinned mulattos; as a majority of their admixture is White (West Eurasian), spoiled by a sizeable (5-20%) amount of negro admixture since the Islamic expansion.
It is often absurdly claimed that even without this significant negro admixture, they still wouldn't be White; however according to genetics, not only are Ancient Levantines more related to Europeans than their modern descendants, they would've been nearly unidentifiable among modern day Europeans.
