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An interesting article, though note the easy conflation of Jewishness with Israelis. Being Jewish ≠ being Israeli and for many people they are quite distinct id
by gelert 5y ago
An interesting article, though note the easy conflation of Jewishness with Israelis. Being Jewish ≠ being Israeli and for many people they are quite distinct identities. Indeed, Israeli identity can be quite anti victimhood.
While I would hesitate to call the conflation anti-semitic it is at minimum quite misleading - and also a gross overgeneralisation of Jewish identity.
- golemiprague 5y agoI don't see any conflation of Isreli and Jewishness in the article. Israel itself has its own groups and "victims", maybe not as crazy as the US but like any other country it is not without internal grievances and issues.
- shirakawasuna 5y agoThe conflation tends to come from an angle that is either anti-semitic or Zionist and hyper-nationalist. Or was informed by one of those camps and picked it up by osmosis. I would guess this falls closer to the Zionist/hyper-nationalist camp.
- PeterisP 5y agoThe interview is with a Tel Aviv University researcher about studies performed only on people from Israel, so whatever they say about Jewish identity they quite clearly mean it about Israeli Jewish identity and non-Israel Jewish communities/identities are "out of scope".