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Thread #159827   Message #3789450
Posted By: Steve Shaw
09-May-16 - 06:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Subject: RE: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Wiki,
The "Jewish state" is a political term used to describe the nation state of Israel.
Modern Israel came into existence on 14 May 1948 as the homeland for the Jewish people. It was also defined in its declaration of independence as a "Jewish state..."


Exactly. "Jewish state" is the characterisation that Israel bestowed on itself. Barely three-quarters of its citizens are Jews. Is this the third or the fourth time I've mentioned that rather inconvenient fact? What do YOU think, Keith? Do YOU think that a quarter of the population of a country should be excluded on racial grounds from its soi-disant definition? Yes or no, Keith? Can you answer just this one question on your own without resorting to what some document, declaration, guru or selected historian has said? Antisemitism is racist, yet, without irony, you are defending the right of a country to define itself solely on racial grounds, excluding millions of its people, turning them in effect (and in practice in many cases) into second-class citizens. That isn't very nice, Keith. I have heard it called racist...