Avi K. Correct. Race is defined based on purely physical inherited characteristic based on a common ancestry. For example. sub-Saharan Africans have dark skin. Racism is the belief that such characteristics justify classifying people, assuming their characteristics. For example, someone cited the statement (dictum really) that the Bnei Yismael are violence-prone. But for this to be a racial characteristic (as opposed to a cultural norm), then one would expect Jews descended from Yismaelim to show the characteristic, which isn’t the case. By way on contrast, Black Africans who convert to Judaism still look Black. Believe in “racism” is, as I said, denying both the nature of the Jewish people as the people who chose to accept Torah, and suggests that one doesn’t accept the idea that all Bnei Adam are created in Ha-Shem’s image.
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