&gt;This does not apply to Jews. There are jews who don't share a common and distinctive culture or language.

The definition actually contains an "or" between each term. It is not a culture AND religion AND language AND the like. It is culture OR religion OR language. Your response presumes that this doesn't apply because they don't share a language, i.e. presumes the "all criteria must be fulfilled", which is wrong - it's only one criteria that must be fulfilled.


&gt;I will bookmark this remark and show it to people when I talk to them about boycotting Israel. This is the attitude of Israelis and Jews world wide. This is why the BDS movement is gathering steam. Because you guys say things like this.

Please do that. Of course, I am neither Jewish nor Israeli, but in your mind I am, so no worries. I can even state it more strongly: I recognise the inherent humanity of Palestinians, in that I recognise their capacity to take action and to make decisions -- to not be like a force of nature or an animal who has no self control and only reacts reflexively, but rather that they individually used their human agenda to support blowing up busloads of Israeli civilians. Hence they have condemned themselves, and may justifiably be treated worse than animals, who have no such moral agenda or capacity to make informed decisions. This applies to everyone directly or indirectly supportive of their acts of violence. For the rest it is sad that the decisions of the others make it necessary to treat them similarly, and they should pressure the majority to expel and turn in whoever has aided in, arranged or supported a suicide bombing of civilians.


&gt;If I ran into you in real life I have no doubt you'd spit at me and worse.  This is the culture you grew up in.

I wouldn't, although it would be very understandable if someone did. You represent the worst of humanity, so far removed that it's hard to spot any human in you. Do you even have arms and legs and the shape of a human? I struggle to envision that.