It's not just historical. Putin's party passed a law which bans people with dual citizenship from holding government jobs or security clearances. Jews take that as being directed at them, because most Russian Jews get Israeli citizenship when they're children (it's much easier to travel on an Israeli passport - you can stay in six months…
It's not just historical. Putin's party passed a law which bans people with dual citizenship from holding government jobs or security clearances. Jews take that as being directed at them, because most Russian Jews get Israeli citizenship when they're children (it's much easier to travel on an Israeli passport - you can stay in six months in Europe each calendar year for example, where even getting a Schengen visa is difficult for Russian passport holders). It's also very difficult to give up Israeli citizenship once you have it, even if you want to.
Remember what the original dispute between the Nazis and German Jews was: the first racial laws were simply that Jews who were hired after WWI into German government jobs were fired, unless they had served in the German army during the first world war. Jews who worked in German government jobs before the war were unaffected. The reason for that law was because the Weimar government had placed large number of Jewish people in government jobs over ethnic Germans.
In response, international Jewish groups organized a boycott that starved hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans to death.
From there, the antagonism and animosity between diaspora Jews and the Nazi party steady went downhill. The diaspora carries the same antagonism against Russia, for the exact same reason it started in Germany.
Hey, bear! I like your comments. They sound reasonable and well articulated. Then I looked you up and you are an American living here in Russia. That is a rare case and a nice surprise. Have a nice day, bro!
Thank you. I married a Russian woman and have raised my children in Russia. When I want to get under my teenage son's skin, I point out to him that he's "Russian-American" and I'm more Russian than he is... since I've been here longer than he has :)
Schumer didn't work a day in a real job all his life. After graduating in 1974 from law school, he decided to go into "politics." There should be laws banning anybody who doesn't have at least 10 years of REAL job experience to be in "politics" and working for own mommy, doesn't county, sorry @neverNikki
There are Palestinians who serve today in the IDF (and are also Israeli citizens). That's harder to comprehend, because Israel is an explicit racial (Jewish) state. I think that in modern liberal democracies, people who serve in the army identify more with that institution and their chain of command than they do with the current party holding political power.
And I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the Jewish people who served in the Wehrmacht under Nazi rule didn't particularly identify as Jewish. That identity is both ethnic and cultural. A lot of people who are technically Jewish (on ethnic grounds or by Jewish law, through their maternal ancestry) don't feel any particular "Jewishness". They didn't grow up in that faith, and might have as little contact with it as visiting synagogue a few times with a grandparent in their childhood.
It's not just historical. Putin's party passed a law which bans people with dual citizenship from holding government jobs or security clearances. Jews take that as being directed at them, because most Russian Jews get Israeli citizenship when they're children (it's much easier to travel on an Israeli passport - you can stay in six months in Europe each calendar year for example, where even getting a Schengen visa is difficult for Russian passport holders). It's also very difficult to give up Israeli citizenship once you have it, even if you want to.
Remember what the original dispute between the Nazis and German Jews was: the first racial laws were simply that Jews who were hired after WWI into German government jobs were fired, unless they had served in the German army during the first world war. Jews who worked in German government jobs before the war were unaffected. The reason for that law was because the Weimar government had placed large number of Jewish people in government jobs over ethnic Germans.
In response, international Jewish groups organized a boycott that starved hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans to death.
From there, the antagonism and animosity between diaspora Jews and the Nazi party steady went downhill. The diaspora carries the same antagonism against Russia, for the exact same reason it started in Germany.
That actually explains a lot. Thanks.
Hey, bear! I like your comments. They sound reasonable and well articulated. Then I looked you up and you are an American living here in Russia. That is a rare case and a nice surprise. Have a nice day, bro!
Thank you. I married a Russian woman and have raised my children in Russia. When I want to get under my teenage son's skin, I point out to him that he's "Russian-American" and I'm more Russian than he is... since I've been here longer than he has :)
There were Jews who served in Hitler's army.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/ellen-feldman-nazi-germany
Schumer didn't work a day in a real job all his life. After graduating in 1974 from law school, he decided to go into "politics." There should be laws banning anybody who doesn't have at least 10 years of REAL job experience to be in "politics" and working for own mommy, doesn't county, sorry @neverNikki
There are Palestinians who serve today in the IDF (and are also Israeli citizens). That's harder to comprehend, because Israel is an explicit racial (Jewish) state. I think that in modern liberal democracies, people who serve in the army identify more with that institution and their chain of command than they do with the current party holding political power.
And I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the Jewish people who served in the Wehrmacht under Nazi rule didn't particularly identify as Jewish. That identity is both ethnic and cultural. A lot of people who are technically Jewish (on ethnic grounds or by Jewish law, through their maternal ancestry) don't feel any particular "Jewishness". They didn't grow up in that faith, and might have as little contact with it as visiting synagogue a few times with a grandparent in their childhood.