On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:47 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do Zionists in general >> self-identify as white? (It was my understanding that Israeli Jews of >> European Ashkanezi backgrounds tend to be much more liberal than >> Israeli Jews of Middle Eastern ancestry..) > > That's the funny thing. Yishai, of wholly Tunisian extraction, is in no > possible sense other than religion "whiter" than a Muslim or Christian > Palestinian (except the black ones, I guess).
This would be so comical if it didn't involve such human tragedy. I mean, this is sort of like Dave Chappelle's classic blind white supremacist who doesn't know that he is black: http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/7nnosh/chappelle-s-show-frontline---clayton-bigsby > Maybe he gets a kick out of thinking he's "white," but good luck to him > selling it down at the country > club. I mean, take a look: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eli_Yishai_2009.jpg Wasn't that the whole point of the Zionist project and in fact the very definition of anti-Semitism? That even assimilated European Jews were not accepted as white? An aspiration to whiteness is understandable given the last 2 centuries of colonialism and European domination, but from the descendants of Holocaust survivors, this is just truly grotesque. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
