Religion
In reply to the discussion: Imagine a world without faith or religion. [View all]qazplm135
(7,611 posts)first of all Judaism is BOTH a religion AND an ethnicity.
"Jews are an ethnoreligious group, meaning that Jewish identity is both ethnic and religious, or for some, only one of the two. Most Jews share a common national origin in the ancient nation of Judea (which is where the word Jew derives from). This has been the conclusion of the majority of DNA studies. Of course Jews have been mixed a lot with various other populations, but a substantial portion of their ancestry is nevertheless Levantine Judean."
Recognizing that Hitler attacked them for the latter and for HIS own personal reasons does not make me anti-Semitic.
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/holocaust-remembrance-day/why-did-adolf-hitler-hate-the-jews-1.5088390
I trust you will believe an Israeli source, yes?
"In Hitlers mind, all the groups that he saw as foiling Germany Bolsheviks, socialists, social democrats became identified with Jews, because indeed, Jews were so prominently represented among each of them. His political theories blended with increasingly technical racial theories that imagined the Jews, along with other groups like Slavs and Gypsies, as biologically inferior to Aryans, the white northern European race that pure Germans were presumed to belong to."
And definition of a pogrom?
"po·grom
/ˈpōɡrəm,pəˈɡräm/
noun
noun: pogrom; plural noun: pogroms
an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe."
"Definition of pogrom
(Entry 1 of 2)
: an organized massacre of helpless people specifically : such a massacre of Jews"
"In many Russian pogroms in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the mob attacked Jews burning their homes and synagogues. Thousands of Jews were killed during these attacks, and many more fled them by emigrating to other countries, including the United States. Pogroms against Jews occurred in countries other than Russia, including Argentina, Romania, Poland, and Libya. Other ethnic groups, including Armenians, were also the target of pogroms in the early twentieth century."
"organized killing of a large group of people, esp. Jews, because of their religion or race"
So stop embarrassing yourself, and stop calling another poster a fucking anti-Semite because of your own historical ignorance.