Rats, I messed up in my last post but one. I ascribed to Diane some of my own verbiage. The quote from Diane was meant to be: "The Jews, in common with other European countries throughout history at various times, were expelled from Britain in 1290 as a race." It was I who said, in repsonse, the following: "I still think referring to the 1290 expulsion as evidence of anything about modern England is off-base. If nothing else, England has evolved considerably since then! So, the English aristocracy in 1290 didn't consider the Jews to be English...most of them were native speakers of Norman French. Many modern English people wouldn't consider THEM English!"
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