What is that idea?This is an abominable use of 'reasoning' skills, Dan. Is this only a joke? Like it or not, Jews have been 'a nation' and a people unified by an Idea, for a long, long time.
It sure ain't Judaism.
What is that idea?This is an abominable use of 'reasoning' skills, Dan. Is this only a joke? Like it or not, Jews have been 'a nation' and a people unified by an Idea, for a long, long time.
Forgive my dullness, Leyla, but I can't work out whether you're representing this "superseding" as beneficial, as the word itself implies, or as detrimental, as might be understood from your description of the superseding society.Leyla Shen wrote:They weren’t usurped; they were superseded by a society which subjected the greater mass of its constituents to autonomic units of labour where, rather than being the practical bond between them, anything “cultural” became a matter of private interest and practice within the greater productive whole; a society which offered a much more efficient human breeding program encompassing general improvements in everything from material ownership to medical science.
The Consequences of Conflating Religion, Race, Nationality and CitizenshipAlong with the concept of belonging to the Zionist project to colonize Palestine by virtue of some biological imperative also came the insistence that a “good Jew,” a “good Zionist,” should live in Israel, or at least support the Zionist project from other countries, if necessary. In the minimum, this could be accomplished by Jewish children everywhere dropping coins into JNF blue boxes to contribute to the colonization effort.
In the legal dimension, Israel’s World Zionist Organization–Jewish Agency (Status) Law (1952), whose importance is discussed below, specifies that Israel is the state of the “Jewish people” and provides:
"The mission of gathering in the exiles, which is the central task of the State of Israel and the Zionist Movement in our days, requires constant efforts by the Jewish people in the Diaspora; the State of Israel, therefore, expects the cooperation of all Jews, as individuals and groups, in building up the State and assisting the immigration to it of the masses of the people, and regards the unity of all sections of Jewry as necessary for this purpose."
AL Jazeera removed the article.Diebert van Rhijn wrote:The last of the Semites is an interesting opinion piece with a solid historical basis which shows how the antisemitic can be defined as actively applying or supporting policies to uproot Semites from their homelands because of a belief that they would belong somewhere else. A tragic irony!