the second i see a fellow jew describe themselves as white, i know their takes are going to be rancid and i am going to sigh deeply.

newsflash: none of us are white and we never were white, even if we had pale skin due to adaptation to climate and genetic levantine diversity.

the whole point is jews are not part of whiteness and never have been part of it. stop it.

Honestly, I do consider myself white. I don’t think you’d consider my takes rancid though.

I think Jews who consider themselves PoC are completely valid—even if they “pass” as white. However, I still personally consider myself white. I considered myself as white growing up, I’m not visibly Jewish (either from my physical appearance or my clothes—although I have had a Jew randomly ask me if I was Jewish), I wasn’t super connected to Jewish culture growing up, and I genuinely don’t think calling myself a person of color is accurate to my experience. I asked my mom if she considers herself white, and she said “I don’t know.” And if my mom doesn’t know and my dad is definitely white, I don’t feel comfortable saying I’m not white.

I don’t make huge posts about this, because I don’t want it to be used by leftist antisemites who go on “Jews are white Europeans” tirades. I agree that light skin doesn’t necessarily make you white—there is a lot of cultural complexity and nuance there. But I think it really depends on how individual Jews identify, and there are multiple valid Jewish identities here.