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Comment posted Familytree – Syrian Christians DNA Project Information by Jacob Mathew.

Here are my views on the origins of syrian christians,
There is no proof that St Thomas visited and converted christians in AD 52. It is just a theory most probably put forward by Portugese for obvious reasons.
Christians (knanaya) might have arrived from Syria sometime in the 4 or 8th century and attracted some followers from the existing Hindu commnutites (probably higher castes thus leading to namboothiri claims). these two communities might have remained seperate (knanaya and non Knanaya).
it might be only after the arrival of portugese and establishment of Catholic and Orthodox factions that people started converting in larger numbers.

The claim by soime families of namboothiri origin could be true if we assume kanaya christians arriving in 4 or 8th century and also attracting hindu communities ( it becomes false only when we assume that St thomas came in AD52 and converted jews to christianity..which is highly unlikely and also refuted by Pope himself).

If syrian christians were jews, why would they pratice many hindu customs including untouchablity and not converting others. ( i assume bulk of the conversions and churches started after the catholic and orthodox churches were established).

There couldnt have been a large community that we are today from some group of jews. If you look at kanaya, namoothiri,Jews and Parsis. they all migrated from outside and still remain in small numbers.
If syrian christians were jews this would not have been posssible.

Lastly regarding jewish claims, jewish is not a race but just a religion.. There have been many people converted to judaism and from Judaism to other religions througout history in Europe and Middle east. Jews themselves are a mixed race.

The various markers in DNA testing (J2) is also found amonng other communities in India (Tam brams)