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  • April 19, 2014 at 1:59 am #3777 Reply
    Phidippides
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    Maybe “Pro-Jewish” is the wrong term, but I hope you understand what I mean.  Basically, I'm asking if political Israel is synonymous with Judaism.

    April 19, 2014 at 10:47 am #29896 Reply
    scout1067
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    I would say the two are not synonymous.

    April 19, 2014 at 3:08 pm #29897 Reply
    Aetheling
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    Agree with Scout.I'd like to ask if Judaism isn't more about a religion and Israel about a state ?

    April 19, 2014 at 3:32 pm #29898 Reply
    Phidippides
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    Yes, I think that Judaism is about religions and Israel is about a state.  However, aren't people who are opposed to Israel sometimes also called “anti-Semitic”?  I feel like I've heard that before.

    April 19, 2014 at 5:47 pm #29899 Reply
    Aetheling
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    I've heard of this as well.  I think that those who criticise the existence of Israel as a state, are considered as part of a “new antisemitism”; even if for some critics this “new antisemitism” is also used as “exploiting antisemitism in order to silence debate and to deflect attention from legitimate criticism of the State of Israel”

    April 19, 2014 at 7:01 pm #29900 Reply
    Phidippides
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    Ok, that makes sense.  Using sympathy for legitimate grievances for separate, but related, causes, seems to be an approach used by some in the present age.

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