In my article The Akum (non-Jew) is like a dog I pointed out that Jew-hating mongrels (does this mean I do not consider them human?) on the Internet mistranslate, distort, or simply fabricate passages from the Talmud in an attempt to prove that Jews do not consider non-Jews as human beings.

In response , a reader left this comment:

Here has the exact quote as I saw it on a pro Zionist site but can't find that site: http://www.zoklet.net/bbs/arch... Here is the obvious racism:

The graves of Gentiles do not defile, for it is written, "And ye my flock, the flock of my pastures, are men; only ye are designated 'men'."

You know Bernie, people try to get around this one by saying it is just a legal thing, but they can't. The Gentile graves don't defile because they have the status of animals is the real meaning.

The text referred to is from the Bava Metzia page 114b. The Bava Metzia is a Talmudic tractate concerned with property law and usury.

The Talmud takes years and years of study. It is not unlike the text found in a typical page out of our tax code which can only be deciphered by someone who is a professional in the subject. For example, under US laws, a corporation is a person - but that does not mean corporations are flesh and blood persons. It is strictly a legal concept.

A lay person, especially a goy, who hasn't a scintilla of understanding of Hebrew or Aramaic, will mistranslate the word 'goy' into meaning 'Christian' even though at the time and place the Jews of Babylon intended 'goy' to refer to the people of other nations. The disparaging sense of the word 'goy' didn't come into being until the late 1800s when it was used in Yiddish in a derogatory sense, perhaps in response to the savage antisemitism of that period. In the Torah, the word is not used to mean Christian because, obviously, there were no Christians until after the Torah was written.

In fact 90% of the time it is used in the Torah it refers to the Jewish nation itself:

Wikipedia, Goy: Biblical Hebrew

In the Torah/Hebrew Bible, goy and its variants appear over 550 times in reference to Israelites and to Gentile nations. The first recorded usage of goy occurs in Genesis 10:5 and applies innocuously to non-Israelite nations. The first mention in relation to the Israelites comes in Genesis 12:2, when God promises Abraham that his descendants will form a goy gadol ("great nation"). In Exodus 19:6, the Jewish people are referred to as a goy kadosh, a "holy nation". While the earlier books of the Hebrew Bible often use goy to describe the Israelites, the later ones tend to apply the term to other nations.