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The 'jewish people' is a very recent, rather ugly construct of zionists who have pretty much abandoned judaism. Given the 'transnational' character of zionism, it would be more accurate to define zionism as a pseudo-religious sect (a rather small one at that) which has abandoned most of the religious content of judaism and largely is a racist 'nationalistic' movement.

Here is a good israeli summary of the rather totalitarian nationalistic path invented by zionism. Sounds much like the aryan master race ideology (and has its roots in the same east european ferment of racism and totalitarianism that gave us Hitler and Stalin).

When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?

No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel's bestseller list – and that success has come to the history professor despite his book challenging Israel's biggest taboo.

Dr. Sand argues that the idea of a Jewish nation – whose need for a safe haven was originally used to justify the founding of the state of Israel – is a myth invented little more than a century ago.

An expert on European history at Tel Aviv University, Dr. Sand drew on extensive historical and archaeological research to support not only this claim but several more – all equally controversial.

In addition, he argues that the Jews were never exiled from the Holy Land, that most of today's Jews have no historical connection to the land called Israel and that the only political solution to the country's conflict with the Palestinians is to abolish the Jewish state.

The success of When and How Was the Jewish People Invented? looks likely to be repeated around the world.

http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/10/09/when-and...

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