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Posted by
Olog-hai
on Wed Dec 11 11:29:01 2019, in response to Trump To Sign Order Recognizing Jews As A Nationality, Protected Class, posted by DAnD124 on Tue Dec 10 23:02:42 2019.
Will this cause Olog to abandon Trump?
Lol, don't be a nutjob psycho stalker. And don't believe the Daily Backward's headline specifically, never mind the Beobachter Slimes.
According to The Times, the order will effectively interpret Judaism as a nationality, not just a religion, to trigger a federal law penalizing colleges and universities deemed to be shirking their responsibility to foster an open climate for minority students, according to the officials, who insisted on anonymity to discuss the matter before the announcement.
Recognizing that Jews are indeed a nationality is not the same as calling Judaism a nationality.
At this point, only a sharp left turn would "cause" myself and others to "abandon Trump".
BTW, the Beobachter Slimes' take on it?
But critics complained that such a policy could be used to stifle free speech and legitimate opposition to Israel’s policies toward Palestinians in the name of fighting anti-Semitism. The definition of anti-Semitism to be used in the order matches the one used by the State Department and by other nations, but it has been criticized as too open-ended and sweeping.
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For instance, it describes as anti-Semitic “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination” under some circumstances and offers as an example of such behavior “claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.”
Yousef Munayyer, the executive director of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, said Mr. Trump’s order is part of a sustained campaign “to silence Palestinian rights activism” by equating opposition to Israeli treatment of Palestinians with anti-Semitism.
“Israeli apartheid is a very hard product to sell in America, especially in progressive spaces,” Mr. Munayyer said, “and realizing this, many Israeli apartheid apologists, Trump included, are looking to silence a debate they know they can’t win.”
And back to the Daily Backward:
Classifying Jews as a protected class under existing civil rights protections protecting other minorities has been vexed for years by church-state separation concerns. The legislation and Trump’s executive order would effectively recognize Jews as an ethnic minority and not exclusively a religious minority.
That is Marxist BS, because Hindus are both ethnic and religious in many cases and recognized as such, and not all ethnic Jews (of the historic tribe of Judah, whose land was called Judaea by the Romans recognizing that it was their land even though a conquered client state) adhere to Judaism.
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