Reply #66: laws that grant Jews more rights in the Jewish homeland are no more racist than French or Greek laws [View All]

[shira]

that favor those nationals over others in their respective homelands. You're either employing yet another double-standard (that you're oblivious to) or you're going to have to admit laws that favor Spanish, Greeks, Japanese, etc. are also EQUALLY discriminatory against others outside those ethnic groups. Even then, you should explain why you favor Israel being singled out (which is defacto anti-semitism) for this when other countries are not.

Here:

In addition to Israel, several other countries provide immigration privileges to individuals with ethnic ties to these countries. Examples include Germany<19>, Ireland, Serbia, Greece, Japan, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Chile, and Finland. (See Right of return and Repatriation laws.)
The Israeli law is perhaps most similar to the Greek law, in that neither requires an ancestor who had citizenship or who was born in the "homeland," requiring, rather, evidence of membership in the ethnic and religious community of the far-flung, ancient Greek diaspora.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return#Similar_laws_in_other_countries