"Zionism"

[Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema]

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