Frank wrote on Nov 14^th, 2025 at 11:21am:

Don't play at being smart, Agatha Frank (they/them), you don't have the bandwidth.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 14^th, 2025 at 10:59am:


If I read up as much as you on that propaganda, will I also lose the ability to form my own opinion?

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/hateful-actions-nsw-governments-wa...


“ The New South Wales government has warned its public servants against expressing hostility or hatred after a disturbing neo-Nazi rally last Saturday.”


Interesting that they issued no such warning to public servants involved in the  weekly protests against the Jews and Israel nation over the last two years.

I wonder why?

freediver wrote on Nov 14^th, 2025 at 11:54am:

This says more about you than you probably realise...

'Don't fact-check your own opinions, they may be contradicted by facts.'

Is that in your forum rules?

freediver wrote on Nov 16^th, 2025 at 9:09am:

If only you were of yours.

I’d like to give my definition of a Jew?

This could be a great topic if we manage to answer in good faith?


IMO a Jew is someone of faith  Judaism .

As in my ( catholic) religion this includes an enormous amount of people of different beliefs and backgrounds.

Unfortunately it also includes some very evil people.

I believe this is common in all religions and any group of people.

I’m certain there are horrible Jews.

I also believe there are many more beautiful Jews.

I believe the same of the Muslim community.

P.s mr cat i goggled the names you posted previously of Zionist’s.

Thanks, it was interesting.

Daves2017 wrote on Nov 16^th, 2025 at 9:34am:

Yes, like Christianity, Judaism is sectarian - there are over a dozen of them, some vehemently opposed to each other. The most recent sectarian political split is that between the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) and those sects that support the existence of the Israeli state, those that identify with Zionism, and all secular Jews.

The term Jew is applied not only to the religious Jews but also to those born of (or descended from) Jews, regardless of their religious affiliation, and often against the will of the individual so labelled. This occurs with non-Jews towards those they deem Jews significantly more often than Jews towards others.

For example, those secular Jews not descended from Jews on their maternal side are considered half-Jews at best, and not Jews at all where the maternal line ends beyond a grandmother.

For a goy (a non-Jew) to say 'I support the Jews' is comical to Israelis and diaspora Jews.

The term Jew refers to either a religious identity or a cultural/genetic identity.

From a Jewish perspective,

A religious Jew is obviously a Jew, even though Judaism is as sectarian as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism...

A non-religious/atheist is still a Jew where his mother (sometimes a grandmother) is/was a Jew.

From a non-Jew perspective

A religious Jew is obviously a Jew.

A non-religious/atheist is still a Jew if his ancestry can be identified or intuited - i.e. given name, surname, known ancestry, physical features etc... even over the protestations of the individual so characterised.

An example is Bill Maher. Growing up, he was unaware that his mother was Jewish (he was brought up in Catholicism - his father's faith), she was non-religious, making him, in the minds of Jews, a full Jew.