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An interesting article, though note the easy conflation of Jewishness with Israelis. Being Jewish ≠ being Israeli and for many people they are quite distinct identities. Indeed, Israeli identity can be quite anti victimhood.

While I would hesitate to call the conflation anti-semitic it is at minimum quite misleading - and also a gross overgeneralisation of Jewish identity.



The interview is with a Tel Aviv University researcher about studies performed only on people from Israel, so whatever they say about Jewish identity they quite clearly mean it about Israeli Jewish identity and non-Israel Jewish communities/identities are "out of scope".


The conflation tends to come from an angle that is either anti-semitic or Zionist and hyper-nationalist. Or was informed by one of those camps and picked it up by osmosis. I would guess this falls closer to the Zionist/hyper-nationalist camp.




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