Is it rude to call Jewish people Jews?

Answer 1

It depends on how you say it. If you're saying "Emily is a Jew" (and it's true) then no it's not bad or anything, it's true. If you are saying it like it's an insult or something bad, then it's rude to say "Emily a Jew" with malice.

Answer 2

Yes it is....Do we call Baptists...Bats? or Roman Catholics.... Romas or even Methodism ... Meth? No ....Shakespeare wrote the role of Shylock the Jew to be disrespetcful towards Jewish people who the church of England wanted to remove from England.

Answer 3

No. The term "Jews" and "Jewish people" are interachangeable. The latter is simply less formal.

Answer 4

No, however, this is because the Jewish community has reclaimed the word. 100 years ago, most Christians in the English speaking word who called someone a Jew were using the word as an insult, and to be polite, they used awkward phrases like "Jewish person" or "person of the Mosaic persuasion" (the religion of Moses) or "person of the Hebrew race." This was genuinely ugly, but as most of the English speaking world began to speak more respectibly, the word Jew has been largely reclaimed, and nowdays, when a Jew hears somebody using one of those awkward constructions, the usual reaction is to guess that they are a closet antisemite trying to hide the fact.