--- Tahir Wood <twood at uwc.ac.za> wrote:
>
> Whoaa! Careful with that n-word, Chris. Do you not
> want to rethink that
> one a little? A nation in desperate need of a
> homeland?
> Tahir
They thought they were, and everybody else in the region thought they were, in any case. "Jew" is considered an ethnicity under Russian law to this day. It's part of the reason why Karaite Jews, though followers of a variety of Judaism, were not considered Jews under the Tsars -- they were not part of the Yiddish-speaking nation (which saved their asses when the Nazis came around). They were Turks who went to synagogue.
Saying Eastern European Jews were a nation doesn't imply they need a homeland in any case. Although as we know much ink was spilled on this in the Soviet Union.
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