Is Jewish ideology inherently racist?
Again, it's a question, not a statement, but I will offer a viewpoint of why Jewish ideology can be considered as racist.
First of all, let me say that not all Jews are Zionist, and not all Zionists are Jews.
Also that not all Jews live in, or are represented by the Israeli government.
If Jews do not perceive Jews as a biological race, what is the myth of Jewish nationhood, if not a racial one?
Being accepted as a Jew automatically confers the right of any Jew, of any colour, to emigrate to Israel any time they want.
That is not a privilege conferred on any non-Jew.
Any Jew can become an immediate citizen of Israel. Whereas a non-Jew, even a spouse of a Jew, must endure a long process of obtaining citinzeship.
Israel is a state based on the concept of the Jewish “race”, in the same way in South Africa or Nazi Germany it was necessary to define who was part of the white or Aryan race.
Recognising Israel as a Jewish supremacist state does not mean rejecting Jews or Judaism.
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Nazi Germany had the Nuremberg Laws, South Africa had the Population Registration Act[/U and Israel has the Law of Return, each with its own “race experts”. In Israel, it is the rabbis who decide who is and who is not Jewish.
Recognising Israel as a Jewish supremacist state does not mean rejecting Jews or Judaism.
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There is also discrimination and prejudice within the Jewish nation. Some Jews are held in higher esteem than other jews.
It is of course true that within the Israeli Jewish population, there is discrimination against the Sephardi/Misrahi Jews and even more against the Falashas (Ethiopian) Jews. But while intra-Jewish racism exists, the major division within the Israeli society is not between black and white, but between Jewish and non-Jewish, and in particular between Israeli Jewish and Palestinian. That is inescapable.
Recognising Israel as a Jewish supremacist state does not mean rejecting Jews or Judaism.
www.aljazeera.com
Israel can be seen in the same light as Europeans, emigrating to a "place in the sun" and subjugating the indigenous population in the same way that other nations have colonised large parts of the world.
In that perspective being Jewish is akin to being racist, because it is premised on the notion of Jewish as a separate race to any other.
Yet we have learnt in the late vtwentieth century that the notion of race has been well and truly debunked.
Is Israel going to be the last to reject the myth of various 'races', and that the 'human race' is only one 'race'?
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