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Regardless of your stance on the subject, anyone else thinks this phrasing feels really...off? "Several of them renounce the anonymity of the petition and at t
by ido 5y ago
Regardless of your stance on the subject, anyone else thinks this phrasing feels really...off?
"Several of them renounce the anonymity of the petition and at the same time reveal their Semitic nationality."
I have never heard Israeli citizenship being described that way, and later in the article they explain it doesn't even mean that but "Jewish background" which somehow makes that phrasing sound even worse?
EDIT: my problem is with both Semitic and nationality.
- hyproxia 5y agoI assume they mean Arabs and others
- ido 5y agoArab isn't a nationality (neither is Jewish), and if you read further they explained they mean "Jewish background".
- null_deref 5y agoA lot of Jewish people see Judaism as both nationality and religion.
- ido 5y agoI'm Jewish myself. A more precise phrasing is "both an ethnicity and a religion". Judaism isn't a nationality (there isn't a "Jewish Nation" all Jews belong to - there is Israel but not all Jews are Israelis). Although there is a lot of both zionist and anti-semitic (different people) arguments that like to confuse them (Jews=Israeli) for political reasons.
- null_deref 5y agoI understand what you're saying, but I beg to differ. Yes Jew doesn't equal Israeli, and from my understanding most non-religous Jews outside of Israel do not aspire to build a Jewish "Home" like Israel (A political entity which will also include a physical territory for the Jewish people), but as a former Jew of faith I know each orthodox religous jew across the world prays 3 times a day and in each and every holiday about the hope to build a Jewish homeland again in Jerusalem with the Temple in it. With that being said, I think all the religous jews are definitely a nation, becuase they're ethnic group that hope to achive politcal establishment for themselves (or they're not hoping but already happy with what they have).
- ido 5y agoThat sounds like a stretch to me but to each their own...
- blitzar 5y agoTo defend against being labeled anti-semitic one reveals one is of semitic nationality.