Jew means a member of the Tribe of Judah. It's no more an insult to call someone a Jew than to call someone a Navajo. But that's exactly what anti-Semitism is all about. It makes us hate ourselves. Why is it an insult to call someone a Jew and not an insult to call someone a Christian? On the other hand, if you want to descend to the level of the attacker, next time someone calls you a dirty Jew call him a farshtunken goy. On the gender issue, take the word back to the Hebrew: Yehudi means Jew in the masculine. Yehudit means Jew in the feminine (and there's nothing diminutive about it). Care to translate?
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Jew means a member of the Tribe of Judah. It's no more an insult to call someone a Jew than to call someone a Navajo. But that's exactly what anti-Semitism is all about. It makes us hate ourselves. Why is it an insult to call someone a Jew and not an insult to call someone a Christian? On the other hand, if you want to descend to the level of the attacker, next time someone calls you a dirty Jew call him a farshtunken goy. On the gender issue, take the word back to the Hebrew: Yehudi means Jew in the masculine. Yehudit means Jew in the feminine (and there's nothing diminutive about it). Care to translate?