prejudice against one's own ethnicity

Homophobia. (not really an ethnicity but similar concept)

More often than not, "self hating Jew" is a derogatory term that Jews themselves love to throw around as a way to discredit any Jewish person who openly speaks against one aspect of Jewish ideology/culture/history or another. How many times have people like Chomsky or Finkelstein been called self-hating Jews for not accepting to bow down to Israel's policies or argument in a way that displeased a certain intelligentsia?

It think it's less a real phenomenon than a subtle institutional response, an attempt at dismissing arguments and views that hit too close to home. At any rate, I've never heard of a black/Asian/latino/Muslim man hating his origins so much that he started to target his own. So why would a Jew? Outside of fringe exceptional cases, such as depicted in this movie, it doesn't make much sense, so i contend that the use of the term is mainly a stratagem to silence some unnerving voices expressing bothersome opinions.

I mean, reducing a guy like Chomsky to a so-called self-hating Jew is just ridiculous. He speaks the truth and sometimes that's all that is needed to be labeled as such.


People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs

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Oh and you missed the fact it's based on a real person and events?

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There was also one of the leaders of the Arian Brotherhood who was half jewish, he had a star of david on one arm and a swastica on the other.

The film is a jewish propaganda. NO more, no less.

Instead of attacking skin-heads and nazis directly, which might polarize the film, and maybe increase jew-hating from those groups or anyone sympathizing with those groups. But rather the movie use a clever hook, that the enemy is actually a confused jew, who repents at the end(because he was wrong!)

Having him repeat the "known" anti-jewish rhetoric in a repulsive way that you'd hate him and what he represents, and actually feel his demise at the end to be a just conclusion. Cleverly, abstaining from discussing "real" issues.

I suppose revenge is part of human nature, and the victim of past aggression will never be satisfied till he's avenged. But if you're going to take that route in life you shouldn't be surprised that "others" are doing the same thing.

Thank God a lot of us aren't vengeful. We forgive and forget.

Because being Jewish is more than a religion. Israel doesn't require you to be a practicing member of any form of Judaism, and for the most part the only Jews who wholly conflate Jewishness with Judaism are the ultra-orthodox.

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