A Zionist visitor

[AlexB]

@Nosherwan

Shalom/Salaam,

Not for me to judge but you can’t be Jewish and Athiest at the same time, Hebrew is an ethnicity/language so you can be a Hebrew Athiest or Hebrew Muslim but not a Jewish Athiest. Judaism is a religion and either you believe in it or you don’t.

If you don’t believe in God and Torah, seems a bit baseless believing that Judaism is hereditory.

And HaShem/Elohim/Jehovah/Allaah is not merely a tribal God of the Bani-Israel/Hebrews but rather the one true Diety of the whole universe/creation who sent many scriptures and prophets to many nations, not just the Hebrews or their Arab cousins.

You can call me a Hebrew if you want, but Jews and Hebrews are synonyms for us the Jews… or the Hebrews… or the sons of Israel.

@Nosherwan

I’ve got nothing against Judaism/Jews. I’m fascinated by the Jewish religion, it’s a shame we can’t get on with each other. I think we have a lot more in common than we don’t, we both have big noses for one. If it hadn’t been for the Jews we’d probably not be allowed to perform circumcisions or ritually slaughter our animals under draining the blood…

…But I don’t agree with the aparthied state of Israel and the oppression of the Palestinian people, I’m against Zionism but not Judaism or Jews.

The holocaust was awful and no people deserve that and I hate it when Muslim leaders deny it but why did Palestinians have to pay the price? If the West felt so bad about the crimes their people committed against the Jewish people they should have carved a Jewish country out of Germany or something to atone for their sins, why did they have to snatch the land of Palestinians and give it to the Ashkeneazi?

I think the Mizrahi Jews of Palestine have a right to Palestine as do Palestinian Muslims and Christians but not the Ashekenazi, the Ashekenazi are European/German not Middle Eastern.

The Palestinians do not pay the price of the Holocaust. It is a misconception promoted by some (I suspect knowingly).
Regarding the Ashkenazi, well, The Jews were dispersed and settled in different places. Some settled in the Northen Africa, some in Asia, some in Europe. I don’t think that settling in Europe makes you less Jewish in some way. I’m an Ashkenazi, and my ancestors lived for many generations in Europe. But if I ever decided to pass myself as a person of European decent, my Semitic nose would betray me every time. It is like the black Americans, who lived for many generations in the US. They could never pass as Anglo-Saxons and they did not become less black because of many generations living in North America.