• TechyDad@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This isn’t quite true. First of all, I’m guessing you mean the Amalekites. The reason they are singled out is because they followed the Israelites during the Exodus from Egypt. They attacked from the rear to target the slowest people - the elderly and children. This gave them a “special status” so to speak with a commandment to wipe them out.

    That being said, there are no Amalekites nowadays. There might be spiritual successors of them - people who want to wipe out all Jews no matter what and who will start with the elderly and children - but these people don’t get “Amalekite treatment.”

    Apart from this exception (which, again, has no relevance in the modern world), Jewish law absolutely applies to how we treat non-Jews.