re: #40 Obdicut

The English language was formulated in the Middle Ages and their biases became such that “Jewish” is what is now used in the English language both for the religion and the ethnicity.

This is not the case in other parts of Europe like in Latin countries where I lived.

Read here:

Horwitz’s proposal to replace “Jew” or “Jewish” as an overall term with “Hebrew” is far from a new idea. Not only, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, was “Hebrew” vigorously promoted as a substitute for “Jew” in a number of countries, but in some of them it actually carried the day, as well. This was the case in Russia and Italy, where yevrei and ebreo became the standard words for “Jew.” The same thing wasn’t that far from happening in English, either. One only has to think of such American Jewish institutions as Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the Hebrew Free Loan Society, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and so on to be reminded of how many Jews 100 years ago preferred being called “Hebrews” by Christian America.

Read more: forward.com

And I will start keep a file of all the time SFZ and others here mock the blocades, mock Rachell Corries death, etc, etc. If I am wrong about who I though was mocking Palestinain suffering in the occupied territories and the Gaza blockade, I will apologize.