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Oh come on, there's a whole

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:25:13 +0000

In reply to Let me refine a bit... Even

Oh come on, there's a whole lost tribe of Chinese Jews, which makes Genghis.... lost. Yes, the series was inspired by him (you know how Jews control media)

Let me refine a bit... Even

Peter Schwartz — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:51:49 +0000

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Let me refine a bit...

Even if the posters were placed on the doors of Israeli students or Zionist Jews, this is incitement to...what next?

Certainly a flame war in flesh and blood.

The Jews paint swastikas on all the doors of the Palestine supporters?

And what did the Israeli students and Zionist students do to deserve this treatment? Nothing as far as I can see. Is this anti-Semitism? I can't tell anymore, but it isn't good.

The EASY thing is an action like this. The HARD thing is to find a way to have meaningful dialogue. Especially when these kids, and most other people, feel impotent to move the situation forward.

Still trying to recover a bit since learning of Genghis's true identity...

Genghis, I think, chose this moniker because he's a Hungarian Jew. Like Genghis Khan, the first Hungarian Jew. Or the first Jew to visit Hungary. Or the first Mongolian to visit his Jewish relatives in Hungary. Something like that.

I, too, am a Hungarian Jew and had a "mongolian blue spot" at the base of my spine when I was born testifying to my Asian bona fides.

Which must be evidence of the

jollyroger — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:53:39 +0000

In reply to The topic was also one of

Which must be evidence of the international Zionist conspiracy--how would you get (at the high point) 97% of the population to mutilate a very important part of the body? For no immediately discernable benefit?

The topic was also one of

artappraiser — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:00:15 +0000

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The topic was also one of considerable debate in the infant Christian faith when there weren't many gentiles hanging with them yet......

But let's get back to the USA, 20th century.....it's a useless signifier here to sort out Jews from everyone else......as most baby boomer males were circumsised at the modern hospital soon after birth unlike nany of their Dads born at home on the farm. Growing up a boomer in a Catholic family with four brothers, and lots of Catholic cousins and all kinds of Christian neighbor kids I saw nekkid when their diapers were changed, and a Catholic father who was also circumsised (born at home but with a doctor attending,) I had no idea that's not what all male genitalia looked like until I was a grownup. Once I learned that it wasn't, the signifier that I got from the culture that surrounded me then was that uncircumcised meant the guy probably came from a lower class or poor background, uneducated and/or rural to boot, i.e. a "hillbilly."

Hey, it's your nickel.

Bruce Levine — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:35:03 +0000

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Hey, it's your nickel.

It would doubtless have been

jollyroger — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:43:22 +0000

In reply to Well, maybe if you were a

It would doubtless have been more artful (and ironic) if the palestinians had picked any other ethnicity to be the object of the lesson.

They could have done a "no irish need apply" redux, working from 19th century newspapers..

Or, like I said, the Cherokee.

Maybe too subtle?

Well, maybe if you were a

artappraiser — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:39:55 +0000

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Well, maybe if you were a student there, the FAU SJP would let you stay as a capo or something like that.

(All 23 members of em, who don't seem to have much time to put much else on their website but their names and a profile that says SJP welcomes and encourages civilized and productive open debates and discussions on the conflict in order to promote a better understanding and a heightened awareness about the Palestinian people in the region. Oh wait I forgot, kidz these days don't do websites, they do Facebook........hmmm that makes wonder what ethnicity is a name like Mark Zuckerberg? (not.) If he were a a student at FAU, would he get an eviction notice if he claimed on college forms that he's an Atheist? Or does one just go by the Jewish name? How in actuality do you figure out who to send the eviction notice to?)

P.S. Hoping the smilie qualifies as evading invocation of Godwin's Law!

WTF? Who outed me??!!! PS to

Michael Wolraich — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:34:01 +0000

In reply to Genghis is a goddamned

WTF? Who outed me??!!!

PS to Bruce: Now you've done it. No more glancing blows in the comments. Get ready for a full blog post in which this blogger attempts to impeach the moral authority of the Torah. (It might take a little while before this blogger has time to write it, though.)

Where the blank calls for

jollyroger — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:47:32 +0000

In reply to I think I'm arguing both (and

Where the blank calls for "race", you can't go wrong with "human"

Riffing on a link that I

jollyroger — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:46:05 +0000

In reply to This brings to mind a

Riffing on a link that I think came from G's chanukah for goyim, I came across an astonishing body of debate amongst early BCE jews as to whether one who had been circumcised could reverse, and having reversed, un reverse.

I kid you not.