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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In America, is there space to be anti-Israel and not be anti-semetic?  From the controversy surrounding Rep. Omar's comments, it appears to me that the only choice for Americans is to be pro-Israel, or be labeled anti-semetic.  Lastly, not all jewish people are semetic.  Judaism is a religion, not an ethnicity.  Just because Ivanka is jewish, dioesn't mean she's semetic.
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Judaism, according to some, is an ethnic religion.[/quote]

It is a religion based on the relationship of a people to G-d.   A concept alien to Christianity, and handled somewhat differently in Islam.

That gentiles are debating what Judaism is should I hope make people uncomfortable.   Peace means Jews stop questioning Palestinian identity, and Palestinians and their supporters stop questioning Jewish identity.[/quote]

Isn’t peace that Israelis stop taking Palestinian land and allow Palestinians to work as Israelis do?[/quote]

There is still some minor land confiscation on the West Bank, tied to some disputes over state and private land ownership.  There is also the construction of settlements on state land (under Turkish law, most vacant non farmed land was state owned, and the Occupation Authority controls that land, and sometimes leases it to settlers) I expect that a govt under Benny Gantz (the centrist challenging BiBi) would stop that, though he will disappoint American lefties in most ways).

Not sure what you mean work as Israelis do.  Israeli arabs have the same legal right to work as Israeli Jews.  There are naturally limits on work permits for people from the territories.  Passage from the territories to Israel by people who are not Israeli citizens is naturally impact by day to day security issues.

But I was not speaking to what we as participants in the discourse must do. I will admit to having said "Palestinians are really just Arabs, its a made up identity for political purposes" I have become convinced that trying to define the other is not helpful, and have stopped doing that.   I think that gentiles trying to decide, based on limited familiarity with the history and culture, whether Jews are a nation or religion or what, and then decide their political rights based on that, are engaging in the same mistake I used to make wrt Palestinians.[/quote]

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