No matter what your opinion on Yiannopoulos or Jews in general is, this is a fact. And to me, that's hilarious.
Here you can read up on Yiannopoulos talking about his Jewish identity on the Jewish-run website jewishjournal.com.
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In regards to your Galilee statement, I believe you came to the remarkable conclusion of how the Israelites ended up as a community in Galilee. Notwithstanding, it was plausibly for either those two reasons. Jerusalem and the rest of the Roman province, to which the Romans referred to using the Latin term 'Judea' was by that time a "mixed" population predominantly ruled by the Edomites. Herod himself was an Edomite. One doesn't rise to power of a king unless there is an ethnic kinship representing those people. It is in the interest of the Romans to maintain this to keep the people pacified. Also, the temple in Jerusalem was referred to 'Herod's temple' because Herod's massive temple was the lodestar to the Phariseic cultic, oral religion. Everything happened in the temple complex. Then we have this. In 134 BC, we read- “The Edomites were conquered by John Hyrcanus who forcibly converted them to Judaism, and from then on they constituted a part of the Jewish people, Herod being one of their descendants”, The Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966), pg. 594, as well as in the The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977) p. 589. Also, "From this time the Idumeans [read: Edomites] became an inseparable part of the Jewish people”, Encyclopedia Judaica Jerusalem, in Volume 8, page 1147. As I have stated before, the word 'Jew' has been confused with the words 'Israelite', 'Judahite', 'Judean', 'pharisee', and 'Edomite' for over 400 years. It's use in the Bible is ambiguous and unfortunately needs to be deciphered for every verse that it is used. Some times it refers to the Roman province of Judea, a Latin term, based on the Greek 'Idumea', which means the 'land of the Edomites'. Sometimes the word 'Jew' refers more accurately to Edomites. Other times it references 'Israelites".
From the Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 edition, Vol. 5, Page 41, which states -- "Edom is in modern Jewry". Another quote states-- "Jews began in the 19th century to call themselves Hebrews and Israelites in 1860". – Encyclopedia Judaica 1971 Vol 10:23. And lastly, "Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a 'Jew' or to call a contemporary Jew an 'Israelite' or a 'Hebrew'"-- 1980 Jewish Almanac, 1st chapter "Identity Crisis".