Murican racialism is super dumb in this context. “White” doesn’t mean literally white complexion and Jews along with Slavs, the Irish and southern Meds/North Africans have never been included in the “white race” colonialism project, they were all explicitly “inferior populations” to the point of extermination.
The entire region is full of both “white” and “brown” people in the same families so this Murican simplistic af idea that races are real and that they correspond to skin tone and they’re all neatly divided geographically is scifi.
This is about western backed colonizers versus displaced native populations, not “races”.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Aren’t most Israelis also brown people?
queueBenSis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
historically, probably. in modern times, it’s mostly people who have migrated from europe and the united states since the Nakba
Retreaux@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Shhh don’t tell them that!
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not historian but I thought israel was made for european jews. also I have read that israel imports white jews from russia and america in order to fill out their settlements
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
No Europe and Russia are in the majority, assuming that Russia counts as white.
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Full list here sort by “country of origin”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Jews
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
race isnt really a thing and it’s fucking ridiculous, but if you brought a random Israel to the USA and asked a red hat if they were white, what the fuck you think they’re gonna say? I bet the median response would be NO