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Yes!

48% Ashkenazi Jewish (by way of Russia and Ukraine). [b]White[/b]
14% Southern European (Italian and Maltese)  [b]White[/b]
14% Northwestern European (Norwegian)  [b]White[/b]
13% East Asian (Japanese and Korean)
4% Middle Eastern and North African (probably Libya)  [b]White[/b]
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Yeah, no. Some nuance here, please. According to the white supremacists, out of all of the people on that list, only the Norwegians are white.[/quote]

PP here. Exactly — and that is one reason why Jews are more likely to be victims of hate crimes than any other group, including black people.

But I guess we tend to have .... light skin, so we’re white? [/quote]

I honestly don't understand how this is difficult to understand. POC = "person of color." If your skin is white (despite being Jewish, or Muslim, or non-Christian), then you are white (or perhaps white-ish). You are not a Person of Color.

It doesn't mean one may face discrimination because of their religion - they certainly may. But they're still white. Especially if you have lightish hair and eyes. 
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Anti-Semitism is rarely just discrimination about religion. Nazi Germany sent all Jews to the camps, including secular assimilated Jews, people who were only a quarter Jewish, and people who had converted to Christianity. There was even a nun who was sent to the camp as a Jew because one of her grandparents was Jewish.

If you think Jews don’t face racism you are uneducated.

(Of course it is not the same kind of racism as what Black people face, which is not the same as what Asians face, which is not the same as what Latinos face... Each group is unique and that is part of the problem with this idea of a white versus POC binary)[/quote]

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