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Soph0571

(9,685 posts) Wed Dec 11, 2019, 08:15 AM Dec 2019

So, Trump is planning to define Judaism as a nationality... where have we seen this before? [View all]

Do not believe the hype that this is about President Trump bolstering the Education Department's efforts to stamp out "Boycott Israel" movements on college campuses. I mean this might help their suppression of free speech goals, but I do not believe that this is the main motivation. History tells us that defining Judaism as a nationality was so very Nazi Germany 1930’s. This made it easier for the murderous arsehole Nazis to warrant rounding victims up and sending to concentration camps as they "weren't real Germans."

So very very Nazi. Call me cynical, but… Nazi be Nazi and there is an ugly ulterior motive here.

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So, Trump is planning to define Judaism as a nationality... where have we seen this before? [View all] Soph0571 Dec 2019 OP

Makes a kind of symmestrical sense DFW Dec 2019 #1

Also Soviet Union n/t DonaldsRump Dec 2019 #2

Some one needs to tell this Jackass madaboutharry Dec 2019 #3

This is Stephen Miller lame54 Dec 2019 #17

By that logical fallacy, you can take any ethnicity in the U.S. and erroneously call it a no_hypocrisy Dec 2019 #4

Whatever this is...it feels ominous. dewsgirl Dec 2019 #5

This marginalizes Jews The Blue Flower Dec 2019 #6

He believes that American Jews' first allegiance is not to the US. So that makes them disloyal, Cousin Dupree Dec 2019 #7

He has repeatedly said that Jews are supposed to be loyal to Israel, and when speaking to tblue37 Dec 2019 #15

We in American need to understand the European take on these things... Wounded Bear Dec 2019 #8

He's following Putin's lead on this. MineralMan Dec 2019 #9

FWIW, the ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center support the measure. tritsofme Dec 2019 #10

They are wrong and should know better liskddksil Dec 2019 #13

Garry Kasparov tweeted that this is not so different than . . . peggysue2 Dec 2019 #11

It's a dhimmi: protected, segregated, sidelined Bad Thoughts Dec 2019 #14

Whaaat? Proud Liberal Dem Dec 2019 #12

The short term and long term implications of this decision onenote Dec 2019 #16