Jews Complain That Whites See Them As Black And That Blacks See Them As White

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Jews Complain That Whites See Them As Black And That Blacks See Them As White
https://christiansfortruth.com/jews-complain-that-whites-see-them-as-black-and-that-blacks-see-them-as-white/

After a century and a half of trying to assimilate into White culture — and begrudingly being accepted as "white" — Jews are now offended that Blacks insist that Jews are "white" and part of "white supremacy" and "white privilege" that Jews want the help of Blacks to destroy:

https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/07/27/jews-as-racial-villains-from-jewish-blackness-to-jewish-whiteness/

It was less than a century ago that white-presenting Jews were defined as Black. White supremacist arbiters of whiteness — in an obsession with racial categorization as a scientific justification for a hierarchy of power — dissected this topic. In this conceptualization, skin color was not dispositive of race. It couldn't be, because whiteness was viewed as pure, and Jews were (and continue to be) viewed as an impure threat to whiteness.

Rather, race was a holistic determination, and having "Black blood" meant genetic and moral inferiority. A British scientist named John Beddoe went so far as to score Jews on a "Blackness" scale, classifying us as 100% Black.

Flash forward to 2021. I recently watched the pilot episode of "Black AF," a sitcom starring Kenya Barris and Rashida Jones. In this episode, a Jewish assistant to Mr. Barris pushes back on the notion of Jewish whiteness, only to be angrily told "Jews are white, Jews are white, Jews are white," in a litany recited by Mr. Barris and Ms. Jones, who is herself of Jewish heritage.

It seems the tables have turned — though white supremacists still reject the whiteness of Jews, others now deem us to be fully white, thus placing the ills of and responsibility for white supremacy fully upon us.

In the progressive movement, which I'm proudly part of, we focus on dismantling systemic racism and defeating white supremacy. But my Jewishness is either fully erased, and I'm labeled white, or my Jewishness is generally dismissed, as my whiteness must be the dominant identity that influences me. Despite the intense focus on intersectionality, I am reduced to a one-dimensional figure: a white person.

Whiteness was a pseudo-scientific creation, designed, among its other evils, to justify dominion over non-white people. Classifying Jews as non-white became an ideological basis upon which to justify Jew hatred, and ultimately genocide of the Jewish people. When Blackness was synonymous with subhuman, Jews were deemed Black by white supremacists and European colonial power structures. Now that whiteness is viewed as inherently harmful in progressive spaces, Jews are assigned whiteness.

It's hard to escape the notion that social constructs of race ultimately assign Jews the most negative possible label. And this follows a familiar pattern for the Jewish people.

Somehow, the Jew is blamed by both sides of any given issue. For capitalists, we are communists. For communists, we are capitalists. For white supremacists, we are a non-white threat to whiteness. For Black supremacists, such as the Nation of Islam, we are uber-white, and responsible for the transatlantic slave trade. The end result is that the Jewish community becomes isolated, ultimately paving the way for intense antisemitism, exclusion of Jews from public spaces, and systemic violence against us.

Let me be clear about a few things: Jews come in every color. We have dark skin, fair skin, and ancestry from every corner of the world. Our dispersal wasn't an accident. We were violently exiled from our homeland, sought refuge wherever we could, and over thousands of years, have faced endless attacks and marginalization, and hundreds of expulsion events that sent us seeking refuge elsewhere again.

We are, however, one people, a nation –– not just a diverse religious community. We're united by our indigenous history in the land of Zion, the root from which our diverse Jewish tree is grown. This history unites us with a common culture, history, language, and set of traditions — as Jews of every color, in countries around the world, have a shared yearning for our ancestral land.

The derisive racializing of Jews, or assignment of racial whiteness or Blackness to us, is a harmful act most often inflicted by non-Jews, typically in furtherance of an agenda that is either explicitly anti-Jewish, or infused with anti-Jewish ideas, which ultimately lead to oppression.

It's critical that progressives who genuinely want to be allies to the Jewish people — as I believe most do — recognize that the current trend carries risks, and follows along the same harmful patterns that have left the world's oldest and most historically attacked community vulnerable. For a movement so deeply committed to identifying implicit biases, we have to recognize the anti-Jewish biases sitting at the heart of so many parts of our world.

It is our obligation to ensure we don't help the roots of antisemitism grow deeper in our communities, either intentionally or unintentionally. This is essential both for the survival of the Jewish people, and because if history is any teacher, growing antisemitism portends growing hatred and racial violence that touches every community.

In the Bible, you will not find "Jews of every color" — if by "Jews" you mean Israelites — specifically Israelites of the Tribe of Judah — who were unquestionably White.

So how did Judahites like King David — who is described in Scripture as "ruddy" — which means having pinkish, rosy skin — go from white to being "every color" from white to black?

It's very simple — either today's "Jews" are not in any way racially connected to those biblical Judahites — such as the 9th century Khazars converts — the ancestors of the Ashkenazis — today's "white-passing" Jews — or they are a multi-racial, watered down group of vagabonds who roamed from Judea to Babylon to Damascus, and then on to North Africa and up into Spain to become known as the Sephardim.

In other words, Jews are racially indeterminate — neither white nor black — rejected by both races, eternal racial outcasts — who must convince the world that "race" doesn't exist because they have no racial identity themselves.

Regardless of where a Jew may fall on the color spectrum, they all have a common "glue" that keeps them together — but it isn't the ancient Israelites or the "land of Zion" — rather it's a rejection of Jesus Christ and His sheep.

Without the rejection of Christ — and His children — the Jews have no identity, either racial or cultural.

And it is that rejection of Christ that is the root cause of "antisemitism" — when they reject Christ, they reject the Father and His divine order of the world — setting themselves "contrary" to all Adamkind — as eternal revolutionaries and subversives.

The Jewish author, Maurice Samuel, admitted this when he wrote in You Gentiles, "We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own."

Ironically, if the Jews indeed got what they desired — a world of their own — they would cease to exist as a people because there would be nothing left for them to oppose.