Posts Tagged: Jews are white
Jews Aren’t White, and It Shouldn’t Matter
The progressive worldview favors moral binaries such as oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and indigenous, etc. Instead of moving beyond the relevance of race, progressives claim...
Murdering Israelis of Color
This week, we in Israel buried yet another victim of the broad-based Palestinian refusal to accept any Jews anywhere in the ancestral Jewish homeland. Tadese Tashume...
Kanye West’s Antisemitism Makes Us Stronger
Kanye West (Ye) recently tweeted vile antisemitic posts, then doubled down on his antisemitic rhetoric in media interviews, claiming that the "Jewish Media" blocked him...
The Myth of ‘Jewish-White Privilege’
"Jewish-White-Privilege" is a term that has come into vogue in intersectional communities. It refers to the fact that if you are Jewish in America, the...
My Grandmother Survived Auschwitz; Here’s What Whoopi Goldberg Got Wrong
I do not believe that Whoopi Goldberg is antisemitic. But I do believe her words were wrong, and the derivative of an antisemitic framework that...
Ethiopian Jews and the Elephant in the Anti-Israel Room
Thirty years ago, Israel carried out a momentous operation to bring Jews from Ethiopia to Israel. In an unprecedented act, more than 30 aircraft brought 14,325...
Are Mizrahi Voters the Real Kingmakers in Israel?
As the daughter of an Ashkenazi mother and Mizrahi father, I discovered that a Mizrahi-Ashkenazi rift existed when my mother informed me that a portion...
Jacques Faïtlovitch and Ethiopian Jews
World traveler Jacques Faïtlovitch was born in Lodz and educated at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. His teacher, Jewish scholar Joseph Halévy, inspired...
Why Are Jews Seen as ‘White’?
As critics have noted, American Jews today are often characterized as "white" when talking about race. Not only is this narrative inaccurate -- it's also...
Don’t Forget the Other Mideast Refugees: Mizrahi Jews
All refugees deserve a permanent home; governmental action is integral to the protection of this fundamental human right. Looking at the Middle East, we see...
