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From: aap@wam.umd.edu (Alberto Adolfo Pinkas)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
Subject: Re: Israel: An Apartheid state.
Date: 12 May 1993 20:10:20 GMT
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In article <2710@spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au> jaskew@spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Joseph Askew) writes:
>In article <1smllm$m06@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> aap@wam.umd.edu (Alberto Adolfo Pinkas) writes:
>
>>I consider that defining the belonging to a nation that claims the
>>right to have a State based on religious belief is a form of racism.
>
>Although I don't want to muddy the waters unnecessarily I disagree. Any
>discrimination based on religion is not and cannot be racist unless the
>sole qualification for religious membership is racial. 

In the same way in which antisemite means anti-Jewish and not anti-all-
persons-of-who-are-semite, a "form of racism" means: A form of segregation
against all those who are different based on the religious identification.

AAP


>Joseph Askew
>
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