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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there a space for "Jew" when identifying race?  I have never seen it on an employment app.[/quote]

No. But applications don’t list every race or ethnicity, so that’s not a good metric.[/quote]
Most of the apps don't go by ethnicity (that would indeed be too many), but they do list every race. Perhaps they don't list "jews" because the US government has deemed it not a race?

Is Middle Eastern a race?  If you are from Syria, what "race" would you or the US government define you as?[/quote]

Technically certain sunsets of the broader Jewish populations are ethnicities, not races.

Frankly, as an Ashkenazi Jew, I wouldn’t want to feel pressure to identify myself on an employment application because I’d fear discrimination. [/quote]
But you didn't answer my question.  What "race" is a person from Syria or Jordan or Iran?[/quote]

I have no idea. I don’t claim to know about every ethnicity. I’m just talking about certain subsets of the Jewish population.[/quote]
Given that Jews are from the same area as Syrians and Persians, and they are identified as "white", I'm going with Israelis are white, too.

Ashkenazi Jews are from Europe. They are white. Now, given that most of them probably married and produced offsprings within the same community, it's no wonder that they have the same genetic marker and can be considered a separate "ethnicity", much like Germans and Polish and Dutch are ethnically different. However, they, including Ashkenazi Jews, are all white because they all come from Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews[/quote]

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