Nationalism is a complex beast, which explains why long shelves in the libraries are devoted to it.

Alternatively progressive (think of the 'nations' escaping the heel of the grand empires – Austro-Hungarian, Russian/Soviet, etc.) and regressive, with the latter indeed feeding partly on racism.

But here is Foxman again equating Jews to English and French. A regular canard.

The English are not a race, an ethnicity (nor a group unified by religion); the English are a mongrel breed united by nationality. Ditto the French. Etc.

So where does this leave the Jews? They're English, French themselves. Then why Israel?

Actually, Jews themselves are a mongrel breed, but we won't get into that. Who is a Jew, and what is the point of the classification? There's only so much intelligence that Foxman et al can take for one day.

Interesting in passing that Foxman mentions 'Palestinian nationalism'. This must have been a slip. If Foxman admits to the legitimacy of Palestinian nationalism along with that of the English and the French, well sayonara the Jewish state as presently constituted.