So are Jews the chosen people or not? If yes, we call it racism. If not, what is that article about?

Always the victim. I don't see any one trying to protect the white race. No caucasian democracy anywhere because it is racist. However, jews are free to do just that. I also don't believe jews are discriminated against like blacks, hispanics, and arabs.

Only Antisemites use the term 'chosen' i never heard a Jew proclaim,i am chosen,i am chosen,yes Jews were chosen by the soul mates of theoderakis, to perscute the Jews and place them in ghettoes,culminating in the greatest crime in human recorded history carried out by the Germans,who, like theoderakis also used the term 'chosen', if the 5 Jewish nobel prize winners were to be asked did you win the prize because you are chosen ?.they would be offended,no need for hard work,just be chosen.

Is God of Abraham, Issac, & Jacob trustworthy or a liar? If God won't keep his covenants with the nation of Israel, then how can we trust He'll keep His covenants with Christians?

What about its a blessing to kill infidels? In contrast, the Hebrew chosen is by example only [Be a light unto the nations]. Not by enfircement and villification. But Christianity and Islam want to change Jews as chosen for Monotheism, by wearing the same hat they so disdain! Its insane.

His writings would fill an entire room, sometimes he seems to love the Jews, other times to vilify them. If you've ever lived with a BPD alternately admiring then despising you with not much in-between, you'll know what this is like. It is estimated 4% (mostly women) of any country's population are Borderline Personality Disordered.

Since when are you so concerned about the Jews?. Just another of your senseless, silly posts I guess.

What were the Jewish people chosen for? Their mission is to spread the words of the creator to all nations. They were not chosen not to be superior to anyone else, just teachers. The Jew haters use this definition of “chosen” in a defamatory way. Even some Jews themselves misunderstand the meaning of being “chosen”. The Jews have suffered many eras of repression and inhalation throughout history but have manged to survive. Survival to pass on the word of the creator must be the definition of “chosen”.

A title, to wear with PRIDE. Only when Jews themselves start to appologise or defend this, that's when the 'not chosen Vampires will attaque. Who cares what all those 'self proclaimed experts, like 'publicity seeking writers or 'would be historians or 'leftist lunatics or the CATHOLIC CHURCH has to say. It's just ignorance & jaleousy of Gd's. CHOSEN PEOPLE. They just can't change the FACTS, how much they would like to.

...at least most of the talkbacks, as usual... meottis message: those who dont admit jews are the chosen people are jew-haters/anti-semites... meotti isnt what he wants you to believe... ok, give him rope: more meotti articles pls...

THE ENTIRE MANKIND IS/ARE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE.

therefore I LOVE them...!

People, including young children, in Somalia are dying from starvation in 2011 and we're worried about the fundamental questioning of knowing if yes or no we're god chosen people... Human kind became such a pity !

What is the problem with believing you are chosen when you have had to face the worst the world can offer? Yet anti semites wish to deny any small scrap of comfort to Jews. It may possibly be a belief derived from ahistory of terrible, events , persecution and poisonous denigration, just the same as "black, proud and beautiful". Yet who would deny this statement when uttered? Only the worst kind of racist.

Excellent article my Mr. Meotti who is not afraid to tell the truth as it is. But we must also state that Israel today is very strong and the Jews around the world can always rely on Israel. All these Jew haters are simply jealous of Israel and the Jews. But you know what: they can all eat their hearts out as Israel is here to stay and prosper no matter what they do!

As usual, these anti-semites do not understand the meaning of the 'chosen' as applied to Jews. Antisemitism is about ignorance coupled with a powerful need to be 'chosen' in their understanding of the word. I am beyond explaining or understanding such people. Their powerful envy is so palpable. I see them for the haters and racists that they are. It is no accident that European antisemitism fits so well with Muslim antisemitism. It is disgraceful and must be seen as evil.

...and still choose themselves, see the ADL, Hollywood, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, the Jewish only Holocaust, racism's special category antisemitism, and no such word as semitism, so you can be against Jews but not for Jews in the English language, and special laws allowing Jews immunity from crimes against humanity.

I broadly agree with almost everything here, but don't overstate the case. Stephen Sizer is NOT a "leading theologian" in the UK, he is a weirdo and a crank, and pretty much an embarrassment to the Anglican Church - it's just quite hard to get fired from the C of E, so they hide him away as best they can. Otherwise good article. Also check out Deborah Orr's breathtakingly stupid and racist article in The Guardian on the Shalit swap. Disgusting stuff.

I used to live next to them for 8 years in Kew Gardens, N.Y. One day got fed up with their attitude and a lack of respect for my rights, sold my co-op and moved away. I have read that column and happen to agree with her 100 % - If that makes me an "anti" so be it ,... In the same column she criticizes Muslims for their xenophobia and imposing their customs too ,... I'm an immigrant too, a grateful one for letting me stay under US roof with no wish to re-arrange furniture in my new home or to impose my native language or customs either ,...

Chosen to manisfest God to the world. Chosen to be the channel for God's messiah to be born through. Chosen to show the world that God's word is greater than the worlds. As long as Israel and Jews exist, it is a slap in the face of all the world that hates the God of all creation.

Ask God why he should make est. Euro pagan converts who lie, steal and murder, his chosen people' yet deny his own Christian followers such a esteemed privilege.

Chosen, not chosen. I could care less what the world thinks. Just don't kill us please. P.S. If they don't want us to think were special, maybe they should start paying attention to the rest of the world, and stop holding a magnifying glass over all our actions!

Yes. The stream of hatred found in media such as The Guardian often uses the terms "Israel" and "Zionism" when Jews as a whole are clearly meant. Sometimes a writer forgets the camouflage. Caryl Churchill's play written at the time of Cast Lead was called "Seven Jewish Children", not "Seven Israeli Children". Stephen Sizer has a record of links to extremist websites and propaganda broadcasts for Iranian and Syrian TV, but it doesn't seem to have gained him the status of "leading theologian" in many people's eyes. Perhaps there are more of us nowadays who respect the facts that, unfortunately for the antisemites, spoil their wretched story.