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To be honest, I don't know about Dekker. Still, I don't know a single person who is familiar with Ashkanazic Jews who could look you in the eyes with a straight face and try to assert that neither Gasser nor Brust or Kaminsky are at least partly Jewish (fully Jewish in the case of Gasser and Brust.)That first link you posted doesn’t really prove anything whatsoever. I was expecting some sort of “backstory” about their lives, an interview with the players themselves discussing their ethnicity/religion, perhaps some insider information from family or friends, or an investigation of their surnames. It’s just one random person who wrote the following sentence…
What? There are tens of millions of European whites with Bible-inspired first names. Just yesterday, I met with an engineer on a job site who had just moved to Pennsylvania from Northern Ireland. His name was “David” (the most Jewish first name there could ever be) and his last name was clearly Irish and he had dirty blonde hair and light blue eyes. Obviously, he wasn’t Jewish by any conceivable measure. Unfortunately, there are millions of whites with (Germanic-sounding or Slavic-sounding) surnames who have first names taken directly from the bible. Names such as: Matthew, Jacob, David, Hanna, Daniel, Eli, Noah, Isaac, James, Elizabeth, Luke, Samuel, Ethan, Mark, John, Phillip, Ruth, Timothy, Aaron, Adam, Beth, Caleb, etc…do you suspect all of these white people of being Jewish, too?
Yes, I’ve heard of Jews with this surname also. However, 10 seconds of researching the surname revealed that “Kaminsky” (meaning “stone” in Polish) is the 5[SUP]th[/SUP] most popular surname in Poland. As another poster mentioned, Frank Kaminsky attended a Catholic high school (Benet Academy) and it’s been confirmed by various websites supporting Jewish athletes that he isn’t Jewish whatsoever. Thus, he’s probably just Polish.
“Benyamin?” His full first name is “Benjamin.”
No, you can’t, or else you would have furnished far better “proof” already.
Boy, I wish more “Jews” looked like Sam Dekker. Tall, lean, light hair, hazel eyes, the palest of skin, a short, slender nose, and a Nordic-shaped skull. By the way, Dekker played at a private, Lutheran high school (Sheboygan Area Lutheran High School) in Wisconsin...
CAPTION: Sam Dekker
The word Kö*** means “king” in German, but he’s obviously some white/Asiatic/Amerindian mix and definitely does not “pass the eye test” from up close. But yeah, he’s looks “white” on the court…
CAPTION: Bronson Koenig
From his biography on the UW basketball website…
Nicely put, I agree. I’m certainly not attempting to “deny” that these players are of Jewish origin, I’m simply questioning where this notion even originated and where it can be confirmed online. As others have mentioned, given the great success of the UW basketball team, countless articles and/or TV specials likely would have been produced conercing this subject…as is usually the case whenever a “unique” person is excelling in athletics.
Your original post on this topic from several weeks ago intrigued me and I wasn’t able to find any information concerning this topic online (aside from Kaminsky, who most Jewish websites don’t believe to be Jewish). I’m not trying to insult your judgment, because by your own admission you apparently know /associate with hundreds of Jews (for reasons unknown)…while I associate with none. I’ve always been very interested in Germanic surnames and I actually know a few PA Deutsch people with surnames such as “Gasser” and “Brustmann,” for whatever that's worth.
If it turns out that you’re right about these guys being Jewish, that’s fine and I’ll be the first to congratulate your knowledge of other races and surnames. Also, even if they are, I’ll continue to root for UW and their fantastic team to win the NCAA title next season.
Perhaps I should have been more clear; I never meant to say that having a "Bible-inspired" first name implied being Jewish. But when you have a guy like Joshua Gasser or Benjamin Brust who is already red-lining the Jewdar, when you add in a name like Joshua or Benjamin it's like icing on the cake, for people who know Jews. Gasser (whose last name is almost certainly an abbreviation of a Germanic/Yiddish surname) looks as Ashkanazic to me as Bismack Biyombo looks African. A handsome guy, no doubt (Gasser).
Most 'Jewish' last names could go either way - there will always be a plausible deniability in that regard. This is less of a science than it is an art. I've seen a few sources asserting, and none refuting that Gasser and Brust are Jewish. This whole topic branched off in response to a poster who lavished Gasser and Brust with compliments in the same post as he denounced all Jewish people as scum, or something to that effect. I had to point out the irony.
When I mentioned Konig "passing the eye test," I was speaking from the perspective of a Goy.
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