When Rome first took it over, yeah, lots of people (Jewish and otherwise) were killed. But they werent just Jewish, they were also descended ethnically from people who had lived there for centuries.
Converting to a religion doesn’t magically change your ethnicity…
But that’s the only way what you’re saying makes any sense.
They didn’t just wipe out the people who lived there and move in new people…
Large scale immigration didn’t start happening till ethe mid 1800s when ethically European and Jewish people started immigrating enmass.
Partly because the Ottoman empire was friendly to ethnic and religious minorities.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Jerusalem
When Rome first took it over, yeah, lots of people (Jewish and otherwise) were killed. But they werent just Jewish, they were also descended ethnically from people who had lived there for centuries.
Converting to a religion doesn’t magically change your ethnicity…
But that’s the only way what you’re saying makes any sense.