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The Jewish people was always ethnocentric. It believes in the supremacy of its ethnic collective over other nations. This is a blatantly hierarchical conception, according to which the Jew is superior to the non-Jew. […] Grounded in these notions of supremacy, Jewish messianism connoted the establishment of a new world order, in which Jews would openly realize their spiritual and political supremacy over other peoples.

The Jewish people was always ethnocentric. It believes in the supremacy of its ethnic collective over other nations. This is a blatantly hierarchical conception, according to which the Jew is superior to the non-Jew. […] Grounded in these notions of supremacy, Jewish messianism connoted the establishment of a new world order, in which Jews would openly realize their spiritual and political supremacy over other peoples.

Menachem Klein (Jewish political scientist) “Israel’s Rule Over the Palestinians Has Created a New Judaism”, Haaretz, 2023