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 == omission of information regarding ownership of the slave trade == 

 It is disingenuous at best to disregard the very straightforward and to the best of our knowledge, perfectly historically accurate information regarding the Jewish ownership of the American slave trade. Is this how far left Wikipedia has gone?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by     
 :If you can help find reliable sources and preferably make an account, then you can be part of Wikipedia too. Right now you're not helping.    

 == Unbelievable == 
 This article, no offense, is a complete and utter mess that get out of hand badly. It seems that everything related to religion and politics runs the risk of becoming a guide on sensitive appeasement of the shouters, such as the current state of this. I won't allow this article to stay the way it is, regardless of sticking with the current POV essay being way easier. First and foremost, the notion that Jews are solely a religious group is blatantly wrong and no intelligent person here with a shred of with knowledge on the subject can deny being aware of that. There is no distinction between Jews and Judaism, it just seems to have been conveniently exploited here to somehow form this nonsense. This is currently the sole article related to Jews and slavery on this site, and it just beats around the bush. I was wondering for some time what sort of insanity would cause someone to categorize the article ""Jewish views on slavery"" under ANTISEMITISM!? One of the arguments in favor of forming this bizarre article was that Christian views on slavery and Islamic views on slavery are treated the same way. This once again subtly implies that we're only talking the religion here, when that's clearly not to be true seeing as all related pages including ""Jews and the slave trade"" got merged into this. This is not about just religion. We are not talking about the religion. Take a look at Arab slave trade (AKA Muslim slave trade) and Atlantic slave trade (AKA Christian slave trade) and compare. 

 The article starts off by implying that at some point in the far past it may have been common but that everyone was doing it anyway. It then starts talking about the Bronze Age Israelites and the Hebrew Bible as if they are both relevant and undisputably accurate, besides both having been there long before Judaism or contemporary Jews even existed yet, citing only a source that says zero about Israelites, Hebrews or slavery. The text follows with an admission(?) that the laws in the Torah and thus all of the Torah were created centuries AD, and then a vague and apologetic claim that there were ""only a few"" differences between the Canaanite and Hebrew slaves (where did these come from?). The Torah disagrees: Leviticus 25:44-46 
 ""44 - Male and female slaves may come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 - You may also buy some of the temporary gentile residents living among you, and members of their families may be born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 - You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.""  AKA Israelite slaves had rules, gentile ones did not. That needs to be in the article without vague weasel words and intentional misinterpretations. The Hebrew version of Leviticus is nearly identical. Closing the paragraph is a sentence that intentionally avoids any link to Jews or Judaism, despite this being the name and subject of the article. The next paragraph spectacularly starts with only ""some"" Jews owning slaves, so what, about 5 to 20 at most. It then all of a sudden unleashes undisputable counteraccusations against something that wasn't even brought up yet, why??? Why is it necessary to state that Jews possessed far fewer slaves than non-Jews in some areas, completely leaving us in the dark about how they knew about this and who has even claimed otherwise? I'd actually be surprised if that were true, since logic dictates that the significantly Sephardic Jewish Spain provided most of the early European slavers to supply its new South American empire. Any publication that solely crusades against fringe theories lends undue weight to them and mocks the actual subject, while also not being a reliable source (as per NPOV). Find sources that generally describe the Atlantic slave trade. If Jews have no role in any of it, it doesn't belong in this arti