"Zionism"

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema crdbronx at erols.com
Thu Jul 19 08:27:20 PDT 2001


It certainly is true that Jews are many groups of people of disparate origins. For example, the ancestors of most European jews probably had no particular origins in the ancient Levant.

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



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