How many of you have heard the phrase "you look Jewish" or "you don't look Jewish" as if there is some sort of "Jewish look"? What have you been confused for? I have told numerous people I am Jewish and they will either state "you don't look Jewish" or they will make a comment "ah I knew you were Jewish, I can spot the features" but yet before anyone knows anything about me being Jewish, they assume i'm something else. Look at some of the responses I got on forums and yahoo answers and very few if any (other than fellow Jewish people) are able to tell that I am of Jewish background. My fathers a Kohen too and did not mix with other people.
I have been most commonly mistaken for Greek, Turkish, Spanish, Mediterranean, Hispanic, Italian, and Moroccan.
I've also been mistaken as Arab on a few occasions by other Arabs or Pakistanis, Amerindian (
) on a few occasions, Baltic, Persian, Macedonian, Albanian, Assyrian (Armenoid), Armenian, Kurdish, Egyptian, and Amazigh by North Africans.
A few people see some of my Romanian background particularly other Romanians.
My parents get confused as a lot of things too. My great aunt on my dads side who is less mixed than him or I gets confused as Iberian or Italian all the time.
What's ironic is that most Neo Nazis would assume us white unless they heard we had Jewish ancestry, but ironically the very features they focus on are actually native to their region such as the famous "hooknose" sometimes referred to as the "Roman Nose" which none of my family has. Aren't genetics funny? I am assumed to be what the person is familiar with via facial features, culture, and our language but as soon as they assume anything Jewish, we have become their enemy. See the responses for yourself.
If we're being associated as Mediterraneans, I think that's pretty valid support that we come from the Levant and not some Caucasus or some Khazar Asian kingdom that the anti-semites think we descend from.