Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. Dreaded Guest, so that's all you're concerned about- whether Jews should or should not consider themselves a race that they believe were/are God's Chosen People and entitled to their ancestral homeland, and that in doing so they may be racist themselves? Lighten up. Christianity itself is predicated on the same belief. Arabs, for all I know, may also consider themselves to be among those God chose- I understand the difference consists of different brothers.

Even if you don't believe in the concept of a Jewish 'race', keep in mind that a bigot on any subject can be as deluded and harmful as the classic racist. The harm is in what acts they pursue. What a person believes in his heart of hearts and in the privacy of his own home cannot be regulated- what he does and espouses in the outside world can.