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Is Israel Racist? A Reply To An Anti-Semitic Writer (Part 2)
[Townhall] The Jewish State, by definition, rejects some and welcomes others into the fold. In "Is Israel Racist?", a reply to an anti-Semitic interviewer (he bailed), the emphasis was on demonstrating why Israel’s particularism is an extension of the individual’s right as a sovereign, discerning human being. For the freedom to include or exclude is not racist. Rather, it is the inherent right of free individuals, living severally or collectively." Jews are to be faulted only to the extent that they deny to other nations the rights they claim for the Jewish ethno-state. Israel’s particularism, moreover, is not race-based, it’s religious. As understood in the U.S., racism is more often concerned with discrimination based on distinct physical characteristics. It’s thus important to understand that Jews no longer constitute a race. Before the two exiles of the Jews from Israel, the first in 586 BCE, I would hazard that Hebrews were likely genetically quite distinct. Posted by: Besoeker 2020-12-11 |
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