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Originally posted by Reds6
I know Einstein, You are what your mother is, but I can't ignore nor will I ignore the fact my Father and many family members are Jews living in Israel which is still apart of me and my heritage.
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OK - but you're mixing the metaphors.
"Jew" = "someone who practices Judaism"
"Israeli" = "someone who is native to Israel"
By definition, you cannot be half-Jewish and half-Christian. It's a religion - to 'half-practice' one or both would effectively make you neither. You can be of partial ethnic descent - so you can feel free to use those claims in your argument if you really feel that anecdotal evidence matters at all (I don't).
Also, can we use "Israeli" instead of "Jew" when discussing the political side of these things? I don't know why, but that just seems much more correct (and fair?).