This just popped up in my email today. Not coincidentally, it came up during this past weeked, too.
The DNA Speaks
but what is it saying, especially about the idea of bloodlines and the need for them, justifications, assumed levels of more-than vs. less-than (the idea of one Jew being more jew than the next Jew), and of course, for those of us who come to Judaism as converts.
While I agree there are many medical advantages to this type of data, I have always found it too easily co-opted by notions of purity, superiority, and even worse. (Because as some of us in the queer community have long already feared, find a gay gene and then you have a way to erase homosexuality from the gene pool.)
As a sociology major, I found the paragraph regarding the "toxic concept" of race to be spot-on - history shows it is rarely used for anything other than to "promote inequality and rationalize domination." Given how this is already happening at the highest levels of Israeli politics, do I have reason to believe it wouldn't continue?
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