Just as Black Nationalism grew in prominence at the very time in which barriers between Blacks and larger society were coming down, so too did Zionism, an essentially secular movement, come into being and grow as all civil barriers to Jewish participation were rapidly declining.
Revenge of the oppressed? Yet another case of one sin making more sins - continuation of the barriers, for example - necessary?
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We lose sight that, particularly among Jews, maintaining a separate existence was as much self-imposed as imposed from without. To be accepted into a larger whole is to begin dissolution – as the rapid secularization and loss of identity of the Jews attest.
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Careful with that 'identity' stuff though. Don't flirt with modernist FUD about it. If it was self-imposed, why did they embrace the lifting of barriers?
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Not all of them did. Orthodox Jews continue to live apart. One might also ask why the Levantine Christians converted piece-meal to the religion of their Muslim rulers until there was nothing but a fragment left.
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