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willamette

(182 posts)
4. As far as I know,
Wed Aug 28, 2024, 09:14 PM
Aug 2024

the entire human population originated in Africa. The Great Rift Valley in Ethiopia, specifically. How do you come up with "most?"

https://aboutholocaust.org/en/facts/how-did-the-germans-know-who-was-jewish

Germany’s racial laws identified a “Jew” as anyone with three or more Jewish grandparents, regardless of their religious identity or practice. Conversions to Christianity were pronounced illegitimate going back two generations, formalizing and instituting Nazi racial theories.


My point is that when it comes to life, death, pogroms, or the everyday insults and exclusions of antisemitism, those of us externally assigned as Jews have little say in the matter. When the rabbi holds a discussion group on "Who is a Jew?", and Israel decides who can immigrate --- it makes little difference when they come to kill us, or to break all the shop windows and destroy the businesses. Or prevent us from going to our classes on the university campus. The use of "Palestinian" for Arabs around Israel leaves out my Jewish grandfather from Palestine, and the Israeli Arab citizens. When it comes to antisemitism, anti-Zionism, anti-Israel-ism it is all the same in practice. Someone else decides that they are privileged to take away my rights, bodily autonomy, and life. When I try to point out that I have an ancestral base in Judea, just as the Arab Palestinians have, I may be told to sit down and shut up, even in a Jewish forum.

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The antisemites will never let you forget you are a Jew. Beastly Boy Aug 2024 #1
I've come to the conclusion willamette Aug 2024 #2
That is not how it works today. Behind the Aegis Aug 2024 #3
As far as I know, willamette Aug 2024 #4
ENOUGH! Behind the Aegis Aug 2024 #5
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