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Chang Chokaski's avatar

You write:

>> "Jews have only been considered white since after WW2 because living in racist Amerika there were serious quotas on third world immigrants"

->Yes, this is true.

Ref: (1) Is the Jew White? The Racial Place of the Southern Jew (https://www.jstor.org/stable/23885563)

(2) Race, ethnicity, heritage and immigration among U.S. Jews (https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/05/11/race-ethnicity-heritage-and-immigration-among-u-s-jews/)

>> "Until then Jewish people were classified as "Orientals" (a racist term in itself)"

-> Yes, true - as explained in Edward W. Said's wonderful book "Orientalism"

Ref: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/355190.Orientalism

>> "Jewish people, like Blacks, were forced out of their own country, the Blacks mainly kidnapped as slaves in the westm many women raped by white "masters" causing an intermixing of black and white and Judeans exiled by their occupier, Rome."

-> Yes, also true

Ref: Jews & Blacks (Atlantic History) (https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199730414/obo-9780199730414-0254.xml)

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