> none of this has to do with the "article"'s author making offhandedly controversial to the point of being offensive assertions about the history of the Jewish

> none of this has to do with the "article"'s author making offhandedly controversial to the point of being offensive assertions about the history of the Jewish people. You mean the part where he briefly paraphrases Wikipedia on the consensus view of modern scholarship on the historicity of the Exodus narrative, namely that there isn't much? It's not even like he brings it up to make some point about Judaism, just outgrowing his own religious upbringing which also involved the Exodus narrative. I get that dismissing the Exodus narrative as historically false can fit into a wider project to deny the persecution of Jews more generally, and that the denial of religious foundation myths can sometimes be tied into genocidal or colonialist projects of other kinds. But that is so obviously not what is going on in the OP, and the general expectation should never be that anyone else takes one's religion's narratives as fact, or even anything close to it.