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Originally Posted by Beninho
Jews were an ostracized group in Europe and a distinct ethnic group that for various reasons rarely ever mixed with non Jews. Ashkenazi Jews may have been integrated into parts of European society but a Jew in Poland was far more related to a Jew in Belgium than to any of their Polish neighbours. Hell, a Jew from Poland is far more related to a Jew in Tunisia and a Jew in Syria than they were with ethnic Poles or to any other host population where Jews lived in Europe. If Jews were not separate from European society there would have been at least some intermixing with Jews and non Jews but it was a rare phenomenon compared to the rate that other European communities mixed with each other. Jews were more assimilated in western europe but even so Jews were still looked at as the “other” and antisemitism was present in every community and country Jews immigrated into. If Jews were fully part of the European community why couldn’t Europeans stop killing Jews?
Being Jewish of course is not a race, it is an ethnoreligion.
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That sounds like a European problem that was never dealt with and just dumped on the middle east.