• jsomae@lemmy.ml
    81·
    5 days ago

    That’s actually not a problem. White europeans aren’t more capable of ethno-supremacy than other races. (Putting aside whether Ashkenazi are white in that sense at all – presumably not, since part of the reason Israel was funded was to get the Jews out of europe.) The problem is that Israel is an ethno-supremacist settler-colonist state. If you removed the Ashkenazi from Israel, the Sefardi for instance, or Mezrahi (who unarguably don’t resemble white europeans) would continue the settler-colonism on their own. They don’t actually need the Ashkenazi Jews for the state to perpetuate.

    • Grapho@lemmy.ml
      5·
      5 days ago

      Whiteness is a malleable social construct that is entirely dependent on who’s passing as the default of settler society. The fact that Ashkenazis were not considered white in 1930s Germany has as little bearing on their whiteness today as Italians being considered people of color in 19th century USA.

      • jsomae@lemmy.ml
        3·
        5 days ago

        I’m not talking about 1930’s Germany, I’m talking about the USA today lol. But yeah, it’s not relevant in Israel – that’s my point.

        • Grapho@lemmy.ml
          3·
          4 days ago

          Yeah, I seem to have misread you, apologies. Not gonna edit the comment because it kind of says the same thing from a different angle.