Max Sawicky wrote:
>
> Given the Falasha point, and the fact of
> many differences in Ashkenzai and Sephardim,
> it doesn't seem right to characterize Israeli
> chauvinism as 'racial.' It's certainly
> nasty enough. It is quite true that race
> can be socially constructed, but in Israel
> to construct a race out of Jews would seem
> to be a daunting task.
Since, as you say, " race can be socially constructed," isn't Israel as a society and a state an attempt to construct a race by denying the demographic reality of who all the various groups of Jews are? Through concepts of "peoplehood that supposedly transcend these differences?' And isn't such an attempt a racist enterprise?
Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema