Jewish professor Sacha Stern writes:
"The non-Jews are considered similar to dogs; they are even, according to the Mekhilta, of a lesser account than dogs. Ishmael, the ancestor of the Arabs, is "equal to a dog", for both he and the dog eat carrion. Eating together with an uncircumcised is like eating together with a dog: for a dog is also uncircumcised. R. Akiva told Turnus Rufus that he appeared to him in a dream as a dog, and with good reason: for
'what is the difference between you and dogs-you eat and drink, and so do they, you bear fruits and multiply, and so do they, you will eventually die, and so will they.'
It is quite clear that these statements aim at conveying that the non-Jews share
the general features of the animal world, and particularly the lowliness of dogs."
Jewish professor Israel Shahak writes:
"Thus an Orthodox Jew learns from his earliest youth, as part of his sacred studies, that
Gentiles are compared to dogs, that it is a sin to praise them, and so on and so forth."
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