Questions tagged [jews]
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Do US laws define Ashkenazi Jews as "white"?
The US Census, apparently, officially defines Ashkenazi Jews as white:
White – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.
However, this definition is apparently disputed by mainstream news…
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Are 11.6% of world's billionaires Jews?
The Jewish people may account for less than 0.2% of the world's population, but among the 1,426 billionaires around the globe, 165 or 11.6% of them are Jews, and their joint wealth has reached the incredible amount of $812 billion, according to…
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When instituting Quds Day, did Khomeini say that one should emulate Imam Ali who killed 700 Jews?
The German newspaper Der Spiegel claims:
Der Schwiegersohn des Propheten ist das Vorbild: Imam Ali habe "siebenhundert Juden an einem Tag" erschlagen. Ihm solle man nacheifern, verkündet Revolutionsführer Ayatollah Chomenei 1979, als er den…
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Did Jewish Ethiopians only discover the destruction of the Second Temple when they moved to Israel?
Here's a supposed first-person account saying that she (an Ethiopian Jew) only found out about the destruction of the Second temple when she moved to Israel.
Here's another account.
But Ethiopia wasn't that far away from the rest of the world, and…
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Do Ashkenazi Jews have the highest IQ in the world?
It is often claimed that Ashkenazi Jews in the U.S. and the UK are the smartest ethnic group in the…
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Are American media controlled mostly by Jews? (2015 edition)
There is a question on this site, Are American media controlled mostly by Jews?, which looks at an infographic titled "Who Controls Your Mind? 2013" and shows:
The methodology of the supposed table is wrong.
The table cherry picks its data…
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Do Jews mostly descend from Shem, son of Noah?
I mean, I am not exactly a creationist.
However, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem
How come we have a race called "semite" as in anti-semite? It's as if people think that those people are descendant from Shem, mythical son of Noah.
Here, the picture…
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