• @boston_key_party
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    21 year ago

    Judaism with its doctrine of the jews as the “Chosen People” is an ethnosupremacist ideology. The promised land which was to be rid of philistines through divinely sanctioned genocide is the prototype for Manifest Destiny and Lebensraum. Devout Jews routinely oppose race mixing. The problem with ethnosupremacist ideologies is that there can be only one master race, so they must displace one another with severe prejudice. All men are created equal, and any ethnicity that refuses to accept that is going to provoke conflict until it gets delusions of supremacy beat out of it or ceases to exist.

    From the River to the Sea.

    • Anarcho-Bolshevik
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      61 year ago

      the term is misunderstood to mean that, as the chosen people, the Jews think they are better than everyone else. God singles out people—assigns the Jewish people—to announce to humanity that (1) every human being is chosen for a task that no other human being can perform and (2) every soul that enters creation is indispensable to all of creation. The Jews are chosen to say to the world, “Each of us is summoned to an absolute responsibility to God for how we treat our neighbor,” and this absolute responsibility includes risking death for the sake of our neighbor, as the Righteous among the Nations did during the Shoah. The exceptionalism here is not about privilege or superiority; it is about the obligation and the responsibility that define humanity. It is about the cry of “Here I am for you!” to the human outcry all around us, a cry for which I am singled out.

      (Source.)

      Please try to avoid generalizing Judaists and their beliefs; don’t conflate right‐wing Judaists with devout Judaists.