* I don’t think Mexicans are anti-Semitic at any level.
The confusion with this is that when you do a survey of them of attitudes towards Jews, they answer honestly. Sometimes the questions are just looking to see if they hold stereotypes, even positive or neutral ones. Not being politically correct, they will say things like “Jews run the media” or “Jews are good at business” without meaning anything negative by it.
The best test for anti-Semitism is, “would you mind if your sister married a Jewish person who was willing to convert to your religion?” The last qualifier is needed to exclude people who just care about their religion a lot. Stormfronters would certainly care, 99.9% of Mexicans and probably 99.5% of white Americans would not.
Indian Hindus seem to be all over the political spectrum.
* What about Purim? Isn’t that a celebration of the slaughter of a lot of Jewish enemies (Persian) straight from the book of Esther?
Hey, go read the book of Psalms while you’re at it. There’s plenty of imprecatory Psalms that celebrate the vanquishing and cursing of Israel’s enemies.
Praising the victor really can’t be separated from celebrating the enemy’s defeat.
* BDS is nothing but Sharia law under a cover of “human rights”. It is nothing but importing middle eastern hatreds wholesale into the US. My response to any BDS muslim is to say if you don’t like Israel, don’t deal with it. Your business. But don’t tell me what to do. Don’t tell America what to do.
* Whatever interpretation you put on the reasons for spilling out the drops of wine, none of them involve “joyously” chanting the name of the 10 plagues as frizzled claimed.
As for literally believing the story of Passover and the slaying of the first born, there are many people who believe that Jesus was resurrected after being dead for 3 days. You have to respect religious belief on the basis of faith and not ask whether these stories can be shown to be true with scientific or historical certainty.
There’s an old joke about this:
Nine year old Joey, was asked by his mother what he had learned in Sunday school.
“Well, Mom, our teacher told us how God sent Moses behind enemy lines on a rescue mission to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. When he got to the Red Sea, he had his engineers build a pontoon bridge and all the people walked across safely. Then he used his walkie-talkie to radio headquarters and they sent bombers to blow up the bridge and all the Israelites were saved.”
“Now, Joey, is that really what your teacher taught you?” His mother asked.
“Well, no, Mom. But if I told it the way the teacher did, you’d never believe it!”
