[Helms]

Ain't Ignorance Bliss. I suspect MacDonald knows way more of your Tribe than you do. There is no greater deception than self deception. Judaism has been profoundly exclusionary, genetically driven and based too much on victimology for my liking.

If you are relying on your rabbis and the likes of Daniel Goldhagen, these would explain your close-mindedness and lack of understanding.Your song and dance as to Soros is unconvincing. You cannot opt out of being an Ethnic Jew. You can opt out of being a religious Jew.

I am sure our dialectic will continue. Have a good weekend.

[rmlew]

Ain't Ignorance Bliss. I suspect MacDonald knows way more of your Tribe than you do. There is no greater deception than self deception. Judaism has been profoundly exclusionary, genetically driven and based too much on victimology for my liking.

Actually, I have written PRof MacDonald on two occasions pointing out some problems with his analysis. He fails to see the diversity within even European Jews and the animosity between Jewish groups. Have you ever seen him talk about the different communal structures of Karaite Jews and Rabbinate (Talmudist) Jews? Does he look at conversion practices of groups? Did he bother to notice the inclusion of clearly non-Semitic Jewish groups like the Karaylar (Tatar Karaites), and Kychaks (Tatar Rabinate Jews)?

Judaism is a particularist Tribal religion. It is quite politically incorrect. Hence the attack on it from Voltaire and Marx ownards.

Your song and dance as to Soros is unconvincing. You cannot opt out of being an Ethnic Jew. You can opt out of being a religious Jew.
Just because one is ethnically Jewish, that does not mean that one is acting in the interst of Jews.