@D Laurier
Do you list christian white men as being jews, but insist that those non-whites who actualy worship according to jewish rites are not racialy fit to be jews?
Racial fantasies about Jews may be your thing, but they aren't mine. You are Jewish if you believe yourself to be so and are recognised by other Jews as being so. Whatever color you are, whatever beliefs you hold. And that goes for Ethiopian Jews and Jews in Arab lands, who did not and do not identify as Arab, they weren't and are not treated as Arab and they speak Judeo-Arabic at home, not Arabic. Your fantasies might ring a little truer if Jews in Arab, Western and other countries did not still get treated like filth when they convert to the majority religion or lose their faith.
If an arab jew says he is a jew, and he practices judaism... he is a jew. The fact that his skin is brown, does not make him any less a jew.
He is still Jewish even if he doesn't practice Judaism. He may still speak Judeo-Arabic, he may still practice customs peculiar to Jews and may still identify as a Jew. Yet you deny him.
If a european christian claims to be a jew based on a claim of "race"... He is not a jew, but is a christian.
He may not be accepted by other Jews as Jewish, and he doesn't practice Judaism, but unless he makes an effort to assimilate to some other ethnicity, what else is he? Let's put it this way: what is a Yiddish-speaking atheist? Only Jews speak Yiddish and if 'Jew' is only a religious word, he has to lose the ability to speak Yiddish, right?
The fact that his skin is pale pink, does not make him a jew.
Who makes that claim? It's not one I've every heard before or would entertain for a second. Now we really are getting into the world of fantasy.
