If any other group engaged in this kind of mono ethnic cultural engineering, they’d be condemned, but Israel gets a pass for some reason. :S Imagine a President or Prime Minister saying “whites shouldn’t marry non whites”. They’d be hounded out of their jobs within seconds!
Addie Schogger
3 years ago
“Second holocaust” is a bad term. However, intermariage nearly always spells a loss to the Jewish people.
Graham Giles
3 years ago
The former Tory politician Edwina Currie “married out” in the 1970s and said that her Jewish father disowned her as a result – in fact she was told that he had gone so far as to arrange a funeral for her, sending as stark a message as possible that she was dead to him. I had a Jewish classmate at college who was also disowned by her father for marrying out.”
On the face of it, it all seems brutal. But then I remember that there are about 20 million Jews in the world and they have within living memory faced a concerted effort to wipe them all out. I’m not Jewish myself but I find it impossible not to sympathise with those Jews who feel they have to take what look like drastic measures to preserve their Jewish identity into the future.
rrostrom
2 years ago
There is a community in the NYC area of Orthodox Jews descended from Syrian immigrants, who have a rigidly enforced rule against intermarriage. This community is flourishing, demographically.
But those who have left it find the rule harsh and unjust.
There is lots of discomfort associated with assimilation; small cultures fear the loss of their identities. Thus the absurd attacks on trans-racial adoption.
Ferrusian Gambit
3 years ago
So working class people who move from their village/city is a great moral evil that must be stamped out but your small act of destroying the social fabric of the Jewish religion is fine and dandy?
If any other group engaged in this kind of mono ethnic cultural engineering, they’d be condemned, but Israel gets a pass for some reason. :S Imagine a President or Prime Minister saying “whites shouldn’t marry non whites”. They’d be hounded out of their jobs within seconds!
“Second holocaust” is a bad term. However, intermariage nearly always spells a loss to the Jewish people.
The former Tory politician Edwina Currie “married out” in the 1970s and said that her Jewish father disowned her as a result – in fact she was told that he had gone so far as to arrange a funeral for her, sending as stark a message as possible that she was dead to him. I had a Jewish classmate at college who was also disowned by her father for marrying out.”
On the face of it, it all seems brutal. But then I remember that there are about 20 million Jews in the world and they have within living memory faced a concerted effort to wipe them all out. I’m not Jewish myself but I find it impossible not to sympathise with those Jews who feel they have to take what look like drastic measures to preserve their Jewish identity into the future.
There is a community in the NYC area of Orthodox Jews descended from Syrian immigrants, who have a rigidly enforced rule against intermarriage. This community is flourishing, demographically.
But those who have left it find the rule harsh and unjust.
There is lots of discomfort associated with assimilation; small cultures fear the loss of their identities. Thus the absurd attacks on trans-racial adoption.
So working class people who move from their village/city is a great moral evil that must be stamped out but your small act of destroying the social fabric of the Jewish religion is fine and dandy?
Makes total sense.