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Debate Score:19
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Total Votes:28
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Are Jews A Race?

Yes

Side Score: 9
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No

Side Score: 10
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Yes. To be a Jew, you must be related to Judah, hence the word "Jew" from his name, "Judah".

You keep asking the question like a mindless goblin, so I keep answering with the same canned answer.

Anything else?

Side: Yes
TheNotorious(14) Disputed
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Yes. To be a Jew, you must be related to Judah

But that disqualifies nearly every modern Jew from being a Jew, since most modern Jews are not related to Judah.

Most of the world's modern Jewish population, as well as the Yiddish language, come from Turkey and not other parts of the Middle East, according to a new study.

Dr Eran Elhaik of the University of Sheffield used a computer modelling system to convert Ashkenazi Jewish DNA - the Jewish communities historically located in Europe - data into geographical information, which revealed that 90 percent of Ashkenazi Jews descend from the Greeks, Iranians and others who colonised northern Anatolia (now northern Turkey) more than 2,000 years ago before converting to Judaism.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/most-jews-descended-ancient-turkey-new-study-2107639949

You keep asking the question like a mindless goblin

You keep giving an answer which contradicts science, reason and reality itself. But I'm the "mindless goblin"?

Anything else?

Yes. I'm banning you because you're retarded.

Side: No
outlaw60(15368) Disputed
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Ryan the Retarded what good you got to say about Muslims that want you dead ??????

You cannot contradict that reality no way !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Side: Yes
1 point

Jews are Jewish and the Muslims want to kill them along with all the infidels in London and abroad there Ryan !!!!!!!!!!!

Side: No
1 point

Ryan the Religion of Islam views you as a friendly until you ride a bike through ISIS territory then you get the John the Jihad treatment ! But you should try it !!!!!!!!

Side: No
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From the horse's mouth:-

In the 1980s, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Jews are a race, at least for purposes of certain anti-discrimination laws. Their reasoning: at the time these laws were passed, people routinely spoke of the "Jewish race" or the "Italian race" as well as the "Negro race," so that is what the legislators intended to protect.

But many Jews were deeply offended by that decision, offended by any hint that Jews could be considered a race. The idea of Jews as a race brings to mind nightmarish visions of Nazi Germany, where Jews were declared to be not just a race, but an inferior race that had to be rounded up into ghettos and exterminated like vermin.

But setting aside the emotional issues, Jews are clearly not a race.

Race is a genetic distinction, and refers to people with shared ancestry and shared genetic traits. You can't change your race; it's in your DNA. I could never become black or Asian no matter how much I might want to.

Common ancestry is not required to be a Jew. Many Jews worldwide share common ancestry, as shown by genetic research; however, you can be a Jew without sharing this common ancestry, for example, by converting. Thus, although I could never become black or Asian, blacks and Asians have become Jews (Sammy Davis Jr. and Connie Chung).

http://www.jewfaq.org/judaism.htm#Race

Side: No