re: #18 goddamnedfrank

You shouldn’t put text in quotes that isn’t a verbatim citation. SFZ never said “returning,” she said “bring ‘em home.” I get the idea that she’d say the same about southeast asian converts to reform judaism if they were being persecuted and wanted to emigrate, and she’d be right. Home is where the heart is, and insisting that the term must always refer to one’s racial/ancestral homeland strikes me as some incredibly pedantic bullshit.

Yea, fairy tale pie in the sky story if you know that these Ethiopian Jews are denied their homeland’s version of Jewish religion and made to convert to the state version of Judaism. What is bullshit is the story that the Ethiopian Jews are a lost tribe of Israle and being returned “home”, when they share neither the language nor the traditions nor the same Judaism as the state religion. It is to me European colonialism at its worst.