7. “ The pervasive tendency to view identity – ethnic, “racial”, religious, class, or gender, for that matter – in singular, homogenizing, static, and totalizing terms is, in part, the legacy of outmoded categories and ways of classifying peoples that inhere from a historically specific Euro centric perspective and experience whereby a single social signifier becomes the indelible mark of “otherness,” of difference if not inferiority.” (Page 21 – Susan Judith Ship)
8. Diaspora (noun) 1 – the J ews living outside Palestine or modern Israel, the settling, or area of settlement, of Jews outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile. diaspora 2 - a dispersion or migration, e.g. of people originally coming from the same country or having a common culture . ( The New Penguin English Dictionary )
9. Zionism – A Jewish movement that arose in the late 19th century in response to growing anti-Semitism and sought to reestablish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Modern Zionism is concerned with the support and development of the state of Israel. (dictionary.com)
10. “ Identifying social collectivities in the Canadian context in terms of ‘nations’ and ‘ethnic minorities’ or ‘cultural communities’ as we are called in Quebec , is not simply about preserving cultural heritages, the affirmation of the right to be different or the demarcation of socio-cultural boundaries between social groups. It is also a means of structuring and legitimating unequal power relations between social collectivities, of creating and maintaining an operative ethnic and ‘racial’ hierarchy.” (Page 27 –SJS)
11. I do not want to be integrated as a member of a minority whose rights need to be protected… When do I cease to be a Jew and become Quebecois e ? When do I cease to be a Jew and become Canadian? (pg 27- SJS)
