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Yossarian said:I haven't got a smidgen of patriotism for any country in me, but I still can't believe someone who appears to be an American/Israeli dual citizen is lecturing about how dismal race relations in the UK are...![]()
Clearly the UK and the US both have enormous problems with racism within their borders, which produced and is generated by their Imperial policies -- and no doubt influences their current colonial adventures, but few on here support such policies or excuse this past.
But their are some on this thread who do defend racist societies. What I wonder, does Rachamim make of a society in which 75% of the students from the dominant ethnic group considers that members of the main minority community to be 'uneducated, uncivilized, unclean'. And that 57% of the minority community believe the same of the majority community.
Is this not a deeply, and repugnantly racist society? Isn't there something fundamentally wrong with an educational, social, economic and political system that generates such racist attitudes? Would Rachamim condemn such a society, and the dominant structures which produce it? Perhaps not as, obviously, it's Israel we're talking about.
And the report on Jewish students' attitudes comes from Ynet.com, which I doubt David Horowitz or Melanie Philips, never mind Rachamim, could spin as antisemitic.
Whatever...I think you'll find that Wikipeida isn't the only site where this has been written. Indeed, even the Jewish Virtual Library mentions it. If Cromwell didn't permit Jews to return, then please explain the sudden rise in the Jewish population from 1651 to 1688.