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shira

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7. What's misleading is your notion that Jews are only defined by their religion....
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 05:30 AM
Apr 2016

That they are not a people, nation, tribe.

It doesn't matter what you think because Jews have seen themselves as a nation/people/tribe, etc.. for thousands of years no matter where we have lived throughout the world. Whether we're religious or atheist.

As to definition of a nation:

Nation (from Latin: natio, "people, tribe, kin, genus, class, flock&quot is a social concept with no uncontroversial definition,[1] but that is most commonly used to designate larger groups or collectives of people with common characteristics attributed to them—including language, traditions, customs (mores), habits (habitus), and ethnicity. A nation, by comparison, is more impersonal, abstract, and overtly political than an ethnic group. It is a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity, and particular interests.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation

I know what you're doing denying that Jews are a nation.
You''re trying to delegitimize any claim they have to their historic homeland.

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