To be clear, Jacob has absolutely no clue on what the consensus view of the Samaritan community is are on Ashkenazi Jewish indigeneity. He just posts a hearsay anecdote about what a Jewish person said 'all the Samaritans were saying' in 1967, and claims to speak for all of them. The NYT in 2021 reported on about the nuances of Samaritan identity; a Samaritan they interviewed said he identified as a Palestinian and an Arab growing up, but came to strongly support Israel because he believes Israel preserves the existence of the Samaritan community. The NYT mentioned both Samaritan Likud voters and Samaritan members of the PLO. nytimes.com/2021/08/22/wor…. The general tenor of the article is that the Samaritans seem to have more cultural similarities with the Palestinians, but are treated well by Israel and many see support for the state as being in their interest. Regardless, it appears that the community straddles both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and its views cannot be summed up in the reductive and frankly disrespectful manner Jacob attempts to. If one wanted to figure out what Samaritans think about these issues, one would have to carry out a detailed anthropological study, not just meme.
