Are Jews "white"?

There were signs that said :”no Irish” as well.

You’re spot on. Saying Jews are white is saying Jews are descendants of Europe which is basically saying Jews have benefited from European culture, which we both know Jews never benefited in Europe

“White” doesn’t really mean anything. It’s only used for political reasons to divide people. The genetic history of Europe is diverse with many peoples with unique genetic histories. And just to be clear, Ashkenazis DO have significant European admixture (40-60%). However, that does not mean that Ashkenazis don’t have ancestry from the Middle East, specifically the Levant.

Arabs: hey Jew, go back to Europe! Europeans: hey Jew, go back to the Middle East

We Jews are NOT white we are Middle Eastern Hebrews that is the common genetics we all share from the lightest one to the darkest one

This is the 1st video that answers my question. Why it this info so hard to find?? Thanks!

It is also interesting to point out that in Europe the Ashkenazi Jews were never considered white. Look at the WWII Nazi propaganda posters of Jews in Germany, they were always shown to have kinky curly hair, dark skin and long Semitic noses. And of course there were differing amounts of admixture with white Europeans varying from region to region in Europe. Is it possible that more of the darker skinned Semitic looking Ashkenazi Jews perished in the Holocaust and the lighter skinned Jews had a higher survival rate because they could hide among the white population better and later escaped to Israel, that could explain why so many people are convinced that Jews are white European colonizers just because the lighter skinned Jews had a higher survival rate.

Cool video. Great content, presented intelligently and with compassion. I'm an American of Dutch & German ancestry, but because I have dark, curly hair and a fairly large nose I was often called Jewish, as if it were an insult. Thankfully people are generally more educated today.

My aunt married a Jew, like a Jew Jew from Israel. They met when they were both studying Abroad in Spain. Well, his skin is “white” but his features are distinctly “Jewish”. I can’t explain how he looks. But when he met the rest of us he swore we were all Jewish. I’m very tan Mexican/Guatemalan with mixed indigenous and European features and my dad as well and my mom. I get asked is I’m “middle eastern” all the time. I would also get Pakistani or northern Indian. He explained we to me that jews are very diverse looking and they’re are black Jews, white Jews, brown Jews etc..

Thank you! The work your doing is crazy important. My father’s family moved to Morocco after the destruction of the 1st temple....(Would you call that Israel or Judaea?) It was on his mother’s side bu her father was le grand Rabin du Maroc. The rest of my family is Sephardic (went through Spain) and technically I’d always fill out “other” on standardized tests when it would as for ethnicity but technically it would be “Caucasian.” My father and I would always fight about it, not understanding why I put “other” and not Caucasian lol. I’m not/have never felt “white,” so thank you!

He just opened up my mind a lot regarding Jewish identity.

Taking on the big questions!

I resonate with this so much as I'm a quarter Jewish and I'm only seen as not fully white when people aren't making fun of my Jewish heritage. I always felt weird growing up as my great grandfather was a dark jew and this made me olive/kinda yellow🤦🏻‍♂️😂 and this even made my family make fun that I was darker than them. They also don't get why I'm more In touch with my Jewish side than them but it's because the struggles my ancestors went through from anti-semitism, I still recieve today, (unlike my siblings who are very pale and don't acknowledge their Jewish ancestry) . Anyway thanks for the amazing work you do, let's continue the fight against anti-semitism🙌🏽🙌🏽🤙🏽🇮🇱🇮🇱

Thank you for explaining this history in such an accessible way, it's very helpful.

Labels of so called "race" (such as "white") have nothing to do with who someone is since they are entirely subjective. When the category you are placed in changes you are still the same person. It's just that some other people may see and or treat you differently. I'm 6' 2" and some people consider me tall. Others consider me average height because they are almost 7' tall. My height is a fact but my tallness is subjective. But I am still the same person regardless of what those people think of my tallness or lack of it. They may treat me differently (pick me for their basketball team or not for instance) but it doesn't change who I am even though it may determine whether I play basketball or not.

Rudy spitting alot of facts, for once. Well done.

Armenians are not Semitic, they're Indo-European af.

Thank you Rudy. A very important topic to discuss and enlighten people.

Heres something interesting. I refer to ahed tamimi, the palestinian Arab who slapped an israeli soldier. She's whiter than I am - so much so, she kinda looks Scandinavian. Even Linda sarsour looks as pale as a ghost.

There are many Jews that call “themselves white” and have racial similarities to european white people. A person of “ any race can become a jew” and there are Jews of many racial types. Rudy says racial traits signify different origins.....because Jews have different racial traits and therefore different origins , we cannot assume that all Jewish ancestry is directly related to the holy land and therefore have the right to take land. The thing is many european Jews have dominated the projection of who represent the Jewish people , so many people assume Jews are a european looking people and have a right to the land based on ancestry, while the Jews of ancient times were not a european type people nor ever identify themselves that way.