On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Michael Pollak wrote:
> Your original point, the one I was responding to, was that Israel's law of
> return and its relation to its diaspora was unique. It is not; it is
> common. Do you want to concede that point and move on to another?
What is gratuitously asserted may be gratuitously denied, but I've nevertheless offered you reasons and examples. Israel is a uniquely racist state, because it is by law the state of one ethnic/racial group whether they inhabit it or not. That is not true of any other state. And the racism has serious consequences for inhabitants who do not belong to that group.
Furthermore, "its diaspora," as you use the term, significantly does not apply to actual people who used to live there, if they have the misfortune to be Arabs. --CGE