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Macacawitz was a pejorative term used by Meryl Ibis, a field organizer for Democratic congressional candidate Al Weed as a reference for incumbent U.S. Senator George Allen. The self-coined slur, which resulted in Ibis's resignation, was a portmanteau of "Macaca," a slur used by Allen on August 11, 2006, and "-witz," a common ending of Ashkenazi Jewish surnames. It was revealed on August 25 that Allen's mother was probably Jewish -- ironically, she would have been a Tunisian Jew, a North African community in which Ashkenazi Jewish surnames are virtually non-existent -- and therefore, he was ethnically part-Jewish and religiously Jewish, too, according to traditional Jewish hereditary law.

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  1. Democratic Organizer Quits After Calling Allen 'Macacawitz' - washingtonpost.com
  2. CaliforniaRepublic | The Trouble with 'Macacawitz' by Julia Gorin | Conservative Opinion - Popular Culture - Hollywood
  3. Allen's Mother Revealed Jewish Heritage to Him Last Month - washingtonpost.com


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