I wonder if they ever heard of example, Persian Jews, Palestinian Jews, Morroccan Jews, Yementi Jews), Ethiopian Jews and many more Jewish minority groups? :l
Exactly.
Judaism originated in the Middle East afterall. Just like Christianity and Islam.
Tumblr social justice bloggers assuming that “all Jews = White.” Okay… I see what’s going on really.
remember when they said Jews had white privilege during the Holocaust?
I think that was Riley who said that.
That was the worst thing to say ever.
Also, I wonder what the Palestinian/Middle Eastern Jews would think of tumblr calling them “white” (especially when a lot of SJWs on tumblr are mostly white themselves)
Tumblr social justice bloggers assuming that “all Jews = White.” Okay… I see what’s going on really.
in response to the shitstorm of comments from my fellow white(passing(?)) Jews:
note: I’m not saying anything here that hasn’t been said first and better by the Black bloggers I follow, but I felt the need to tack this on because of the backlash from a lot of my posts last week.
and this is why, fellow white Jews, we need to fucking reexamine how we talk about all of this shit that’s been going around. I had a whole response typed out and it got lost so sit tight:
I’ve been accused by some folks on here of ignoring/forgiving antisemitism by Black folks, and for somehow perpetuating antisemitism myself by using the term “white Jews.” But here’s the thing. Regardless of the ways in which we as Jews may have been denied whiteness, those of us who are white (and even if this whiteness is conditional or only recognized in the US, lbr) function as white as a DIRECT result of a conscious effort to distance ourselves from Black people (&, lest we forget, all of the other POC affected by the holocaust that we are often so reluctant to acknowledge, and similarly eager to distance ourselves from). Like, that is historically how ANY group has gone from non-white to white, by stepping on Black people. And I absolutely acknowledge that not all Jews are white — to assert otherwise would be absolutely fucking ridiculous. But many of us are, and calling us as much (esp when this identification comes from Black people) isn’t some affront to our history of oppression, but an effort to acknowledge the fact that white Jews have achieved whiteness in a way that continues to further oppress Black people in the United States.
and yeah, there have been some Black folks saying some fucked up, antisemitic things. But again, how much structural power does that antisemitism hold? Yes, these are Black gentiles perpetuating antisemitism — but this is antisemitism from a group WHOLLY regarded as non-white to a group that is (even conditionally but again, function as white and therefore largely BEING white?) regarded as at least partially white?
anti-semitism affects ALL Jews, including Black Jews. and Anti-Blackness affects ALL Black folks, including Black Jews. & thisisnotjewish did a much better writeup than me on a lot of this. but for these conversations to happen and for white Jews to immediately steer the conversation into a place where it’s about dodging (sometimes conditional) white privilege instead of focusing on the ways in which we can truly support Black Jews and create communities in which we ourselves are not perpetuating anti-Blackness is irresponsible.I am Rroma and my family died in the Porajmos so I feel obligated to tell you to fuck right off. You know who laughs at me whenever I try to talk about how devastating it is that I have no familija, that I do not even know the names of those who died, that I am surrounded by the ghosts of what might have been? Gentiles. You know who fucking understands? JEWS. Jews fucking understand and they mourn with me and they know just how devastating the true nature of the Holocaust was while all others try to forget it. So fuck you for using my families graves in an attempt to ease your own self loathing.
