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November 5, 2009 11:01 pm at 11:01 pm
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Nowadays, Koma, you know full well that Ivri is an old pre-medine term used to replace the proud label of “Yehudi” by the early Zionists. It has been succeeded by “israeli”. A chiloni will still use the word “yehudi” as a slightly contemptuous term for a ben Torah whom they (correctly) do not see as the more modern “israeli” but rather as (to them an antiquated) Yehudi.
And those early Zionists said “Ivri anochi, chofshi anochi, kochi veotzem yadi ze hakol, mikol, kol.” They had no right to the term Ivri either! The most honest of them actually called themselves kenaanim!