• mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Finally, someone else who gets it. It’s so weird that so many people think all Jews came from a single tribe at the edge of the desert. That’s not how religions work…

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      10 months ago

      even weirder that most people seem to identify Judaism as an ethnicity and not as a religion.

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        10 months ago

        Because it’s both? Jews can be both semites (ethnicity) and followers of Judaism (religion). Not all Jewish people are both. To make things more confusing, not all Jews are zionists, and not all Israelis are zionists.

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          10 months ago

          It depends on how you define the word ethnicity. Look it up and it can mean any group that shares a common religion, custom, language, etc.

          Debating if something is a religion or an ethnicity is like debating if it is a Group or a Club or a population.