(Jewish Group) Whoopi Goldberg faces backlash after repeating false Holocaust comments

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5. Christian identity is not defined by parentage.

In Judaism, you are Jewish if your mother is Jewish. You can also be Jewish by conversion, but some branches of Judaism don't acknowledge conversions in other branches.

Judaism is both a religion and a cultural/ethnic identity. Would that make it a race? Depends on how you define race or if there's really such a thing as race. Some people challenge the idea of race on a biological basis and consider it a social construct.

Nazis is were not the first to define being Jewish as a race. The Spanish did that during the Inquisition. Centuries before the Inquisition, during a period in Spain called the Conviviencia, when Jews, Muslims, and Christians lived in relative harmony, there were often intermarriages and conversions between the faiths, especially among people of high rank in society. Later, during the Inquisition, genealogies of nobles and other people of high rank were examined to "out" those with Jewish or Muslim ancestry whose families had identified as Christian for generations. The motivation was greed as much as it was religious zeal. The property of "outed" people could be confiscated.

Anti Semitism could be considered racism, even if you see race as a social construct. In fact, especially if race is a social construct.