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[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

My goodness, some actual journalism.

[–]magnora7[S] 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

I know, I was like, is this really on CBS news? Props to the author Ian Lee for digging in to this uncomfortable subject

[–]Jesus 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

[–]beermeem 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

So I can just show up in Israel and say I'm jewish? Why doesn't everyone do this? Do I need a Rabbi to vouch for me?

The Rabbi of Detroit took my virginity. (She actually did).

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

they'd do a dna test on you, not even joking

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So you're not a Zionist?

[–]DffrntDrmmr 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Rabbi of Detroit took my virginity. (She actually did).

You lost your virginity to a rabbi? Were you an adult and was it consensual?

[–]Orangutan 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Most of the media prefers to play dumb, which is exactly what that profession is ideally not supposed to do. Thanks magnora7!!

[–]HibikiBlack 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting, to say the least.

[–]beermeem 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

What defines a person as Jewish? Do I have to physically Go to Israel to gain citizenship? Does that get me an EU passport?

Upwards of 60 people! That's half the population of Vineland, NJ!

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[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The genetic test has some problems with the genomes. I had a post about it, I'll link it tonight.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Initially, Jusaism was a culture and strictly a religion, never a race. That's why the term anti-Semitic makes no sense, as Arabs are also semitic. There was really no such thing as an atheistical Jew before the 16th century, other than what religious Jews classified as fraudulent Jews, or non-Jews.

During the 16th century, Jews were persecuted in the Iberian Peninsula. Many secretly converted to Christianity, others practiced their true religion in secret, whilst others too, disowned their religion attacking their own.

When the Jesuits created the Blood Libels Laws, and a large swath of Jews subsequently thought of Judaism as a biblically historical purity of the blood, both sides then fought among themselves.

The reformed Jews having disowned their religious ancestry latched unto to the supremacist blood purity ideology, which was a strict feature of Orthodox Jews during biblical times.

What we see today, are some Jews, very powerful, who believe Judaism as simply a race or purity of Blood. These same Jews having disowned the religious connotation of Judaism held onto the 'chosen one' ideologues and Holy land belief, that was merely a feature of religious Jews.

The Jew haters created the anti-Semitic canard to classify Judaism as a race in order to better categorize and persecute Jews.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So, then is William Kristol Jewish?