Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
They have different policies for those they consider in-group and those they consider to be the other.

How is that not the definition of institutional racism? Do you have to go all Hitler to be worthy of the term?
The discrimination is based on ancient Jewish ideas about genealogy, not modern Western concepts of race.

From what I have gathered, the main hostility towards black Jewish groups is not based on the idea that blacks are inferior, but rather a suspicion that these black Jews are not really of Israelite descent.

I think this sort of discrimination based on complex and historical genealogy is a sort of grey area between racism and a basic acknowledgement of family realities. After all, even we in the enlightened West choose whether or not to give citizenship based on more direct genealogy - usually, a child is granted citizenship if one or more of his parents are already citizens, regardless of whether the child is resident in the country at the time. What the Israeli state does is closer to this than racism I would say.