There what is? Jewish people with white skin can and do pass as white because they are white and reap the benefits of being white, genuis. |
This whole tangent of yours is irrelevant because we’re talking about Israel, not America, but for what it’s worth, it doesn’t really matter what Jews consider themselves to be. It matters what others consider them to be. And American Jews’ whiteness is very much conditional. They haven’t always been considered white in America. Right here in Montgomery County, in 1947, five families in the Bannockburn Heights filed a lawsuit to force Lucille Tushin, a Christian woman, to evict her husband, Aaron, because he was Jewish. The suit claimed irreparable damage caused by his occupancy in violation of the neighborhood’s restrictive covenant. Jews are Schrödinger’s Whites: white or non-white depending on the politics of the observer. If you ask a neonazi, they will say Jews are not white. If you ask an antizionist, they will say Jews are definitely white. |
Ok just call them white then. Why call them “whiter than white”? Explain yourself. |
They tried. Look up the SS St. Louis. |
I mean my jewish friends/acquaintances remind me of the wasps of the mid 1900s US. Very exclusive country club-ish, posh, privileged, exquisite, lovely, luxurious life. They attend exclusive schools and universities and have connections and networking most can only dream of. |
Ok got it. So to you white = rich, and Jews are ultra rich. Do you think that protects them from antisemitism? |
I don’t know? How are the wealthy extremely connected white jews I know affected by antisemitism? They have more support and a stronger network than anyone else I know. |
Antisemitism exists but how are very wealthy connected white American jews affected by it? |
Maybe ask them if you don’t know instead of assuming. You say they remind you of the WASPs of the mid 1900s. Funny thing about those WASPs is that they discriminated against Jews, including rich Jews. Jews were prohibited from joining country clubs, and established their own for that reason. Woodmont Country Club right here in Rockville, Maryland was founded in 1913 when Jews were prohibited from joining other clubs in the Washington, D.C., area. |
Well the tide has turned. The pendulum has swung. |
Also, the Nazis didn’t care if you were rich or poor, they’d kill you either way if you were a Jew. Same with the Islamic Republic of Iran where my parents escaped from. Google Habib Elghanayan - a wealthy Jewish Iranian industrialist executed by the Iranian regime without a trial on specious charges of being a “Zionist.” |
It can swing back at any time. That’s the point. |
But it hasn’t yet so unless you have a crystal ball this is impossible to predict. There should be a happy medium where everyone is treated equally. |
It's a grim irony: some scream "antisemitism" at every critique, while their silence on a genocide we’re bankrolling in their name is deafening. Distraction’s a hell of a drug. |
Then there are some of us who are appalled at the crimes happening in Gaza but also don’t particularly want to be told we personally have to answer for it or that it proves Israel should never have existed. The biggest distraction in this thread right now is the person trying to debate with themselves about whether white Jews are white. Yes, white Jews are white. Mazel tov, we’ve solved that one. |