It's a matter of opinion, DG. (Like most other things...) If someone thinks you are anti-semitic because of what you said, it doesn't matter a fig to them how you define the term "anti-semitic".

This is why these discussions end up with people butting heads so often.

However, I get your point all right.

I think the general viewpoint about who is a Jew and who is not goes this way: If someone's parents are known to be "Jewish", then that someone is also considered to be Jewish by inheritance. Whether they have any religious beliefs or not is entirely another matter! There have been plenty of agnostic and atheist Jews who nevertheless claimed to be Jews. Like Woody Allen, for instance, to name just one famous one. I've known any number of Jews who did not have religious beliefs.

So how about that, eh?

- LH