The point I was reffering to was purity of blood. Given the wide racial divergence of Jews who have been accepted the point raised was utter bollox. You have raised a straw man by stating that because Israel will not accept cross border marrages between Arabs as an entitlement to citizenship it is obsessed with blood purity.
Have you ever been to Germany? It's strange to experience that terrible loss in German culture of such an important cultural part of that land.
AFAIK, they had no prior connection to Judaism until a settler rabbi decided he wanted reinforcements.
The marriage laws are part of the creeping apartheid between Jewish and Palestinian inhabitants. However, there is a lot of racism in Israel based, at least in part, on "blood purity". The Ethiopian Jews are treated the worst, along with the Russians - both regarded as "not real Jews" by the orthodox nutters. The Ethiopians because they are black, the Russians because they don't have to prove Jewish ancestry in order to claim citizenship. Arab Jews are somewhat better off, with European Ashkenazim having the highest status.
No, I haven't. I'd love to though.
I'm not sure that the use of the term fascist is correct, but one key parallel with Nazi tactics in Europe is settling civilians in occupied territory. I find it hard to believe you haven't heard the term "facts on the ground" with reference to Israel.
to be fair though, the nazis arent the only ones to have created settlements with the intention of expansionism and keeping "unruly" areas under control, dispossessing the rest of the people. iraq under saddam, russia and more recently, china have all done it ... not that that makes it much better
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