Ashkenazi Jews Are Still People of Color: Reply to Critics
blogs.timesofisrael.com
From the blog of Dani Ishai Behan at The Times of Israel

"Do not use participation in the slave trade as an excuse for whitewashing Jews, unless you are willing to do the same to Arabs and Native Americans. Otherwise, it is nothing more than discrimination. And discrimination against Jews has a name: antisemitism."

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I find it funny that this is written by the most generic looking white dude ever.

    • walletbaby [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      The whole thing started because the new Wonder Woman is Jewish. Hollywood thought they had checked the diversity box, while BIPOC got angry about a role being taken away from their community.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Oh no won't someone think of the poor colonizer who joined the IDF.

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          My favorite part:

          Reductio Ad Hitlerum

          An informal fallacy that can best be summed up as “Hitler did X, therefore X is wrong”. Variations on this fallacy generally consist of swapping out “Hitler” and replacing him with “David Duke”, “neo-Nazis”, and “white supremacists”, etc. The gist of their argument is that by agreeing with white nationalist anti-Semites on one thing (i.e. that Jews are not white), I am endorsing – or at best enabling – the rest of their ideology, thereby thrusting Jews back into the crosshairs of the (American/European) far right. Proponents of this view hold that any degree of overlap is impermissible, and therefore I need to rethink my position.

          Reddit brained mfer tries to deflect from the actual criticism of Israeli fascism by insinuating that they are being equated to other white supremacists and not it's own thing.

          Not only that but there is a long history of Israeli nationalists collaborating with other fascists in hopes to drive more migration to Israel.

          Two, this fallacy can easily be turned on its head by pointing out how notions of Jewish whiteness overlap with anti-Zionist anti-Semitism, specifically the ongoing erasure of our connection to the Middle East.

          Okay let's draw this out to its logical conclusion, should I as a white person be able to lay claim to African heritage?

          At some point it does matter how long you and your ancestors have spent outside the region.