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Jayjg this is nonsense. You are misquoting the subject. Milliband didn't simply say ""I'm Jewish"", he said ""“Obviously I'm Jewish, it is part of my identity, but not in a religious sense."" Milliband recognised that simply saying ""I'm Jewish"" would lead many hearers to make a religious assumption, so he qualified it. You say ""but saying you are Jewish doesn't imply religiousness"" and I immediately accusing you of doing exactly what you accuse others of doing - imposing your meaning of what ""Jewish"" means. That's what you said was original research, isn't it? Milliband obviously recognised that simply saying ""I'm Jewish"" would mislead at least some hearers into making a religious assumption - which is why qualified his self-identity. Now if you label him as ""Jewish"" - and stick him in an unqualified Jewish box, you leave open the very misinterpretation that he was at pains to exclude. And you do it by saying ""here is how I define Judish identity"" and worse by ignoring the fact that some/many people hearing ""Jewish"" don't share your preconception. The subject has said what the subject has said. We should record it. We should not qualify it, truncate it, ignore it - or say ""your fears of misinterpretation are ill-founded, and thus your qualification unnecessary"".Scott Mac "