Are Jews White?

While some Ashkenazi Jews may appear white and identify as such, the concept of whiteness is complex.
Historically, Jews were considered a separate and inferior race and yet, over time, antisemitism, assimilation efforts and rising socioeconomic status have influenced the perception of “Jewish whiteness.”
However, this categorization overlooks the experiences of Jews of Color and non-Ashkenazim and further perpetuates the ongoing antisemitism Jews face today.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:33 Global Jewish communities
00:44 Do Ashkenazi Jews identify as white?
01:03 What does it mean to be white?
01:25 Origin of whiteness
02:06 Definitions of whiteness
02:56 European Jews were not white
03:14 Racial discrimination against Jews in America
04:46 Antisemitism and Jewish racial ambiguity
05:33 Failed attempts by Jews to be accepted as white
06:27 Jewish-black interracial tensions
06:50 GI Bill benefits and white collar jobs
07:09 American Jews achieve "whiteness"
07:20 Jews (and non-Jews) reject Jewish white identity
07:58 Jews don't fit into a racial box
08:35 Conditional whiteness is oppressive
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[@jgoff76]

A lot people who are now considered white like Irish and Italians weren’t considered white for a while.

[@neerajanaghosh4464]

Not only Jews, but Italians were considered were considered to be non-white. You should all read, The Nature of Prejudice by Gordon Allport.

[@thriveyugen85]

Until they became "Americanized" they wanted people to forget where they came from adopt new principles procreate work to death

[@bigdawg9782]

@@neerajanaghosh4464 white is Esau, Ahkenaz and Italian as well as some other Mediterranean areas are of Japhet. They have mixed well.

[@allenmontrasio8962]

How can the Irish not be considered white? What we are looking at is not racism but ethnic classism. It's more a question of rich supremacy than white.

[@jgoff76]

@@allenmontrasio8962 exactly

[@TheAlchaemist]

It took me years to realize how obsessed with race Americans are.

[@seaneckhart9914]

Guess which group run America?

[@lucasrem]

US people don't understand it. Westen, white ? Ask Germans !

[@mikedavis6266]

America was built on race, it even says so in our declaration of independence

[@user-ch6um1vn8x]

it's exhausting. When I was growing up in the late 90's and 00's race was not an issue. They revived it just to cause division. If attention isn't somewhere else, the attention is on them.

[@mikedavis6266]

@@user-ch6um1vn8xRace has ALWAYS been an issue in America, it just wasn't in your consciousness

[@MorBonnyMusic]

Thank you for this ❣

[@yyeitivsrj]

Love love love this video!

[@kaunas888]

White generally refers to someone of European origin and who looks European as opposed to other races and ethnicities.

[@vinnymac7565]

Maybe Jews are just Europeans that started mixing with Middle Easterners.

[@dulcemoutinho5820]

Europeans are of Caucasian race.

[@Sydebern]

Yeah it's not just skin colour. It's for example bone structure as well. If you paint a European black, he does not look like a sub-saharan African. If you paint a sub-saharan African white, he does not look like a European. I think denying this is not good. We should celebrate the variety of human beings, just like we celebrate the variety in animals, plants, flowers. It's nature expressing itself differently! That's what nature always does. We're not the same! At least, not on that level. And what a boring world that would be.

[@ClickbaitMotorsports]

True. Now historically, whiteness comes with privilege. That's the point of the video. It goes beyond physical appearance. The Nazi Germans accepting the Japanese is a great example.

[@Ash79811]

What about Italians and Greeks, they look more Mediterranean

[@carenlettofsky3045]

At least in the US, the government classifies Jews (and Arabs) as White when it suites them. We are "other'ed" when it suites them as well.

[@ColmPadraig]

You mean Jews do that when they say "hello fellow Whites, I think we should accept replacement level of immigration and do away with traditional moral values". And the next sentence, "but I'm not white, so all that hate I've been staring for Whites shouldn't be used against me".

[@AndrewJM]

ive never seen any instance where arabs were classified as white.

[@thomaskalbfus2005]

Being a Jew in the United States is your choice, it is a religion after all.

[@carenlettofsky3045]

@@thomaskalbfus2005 - It's not just a religion. We are a culture and a people. There were many, many Jews who were not religious at all and were still murdered in the Holocaust.

[@SlackerMagician]

your "culture" is genocidal​@@carenlettofsky3045

[@infinitequest0424]

Thanks for sharing

[@OleJoe]

I remember reading once about the founding of The State of Israel. They were trying to decided who was a Jew and who was not, Was it a race? Was it a religion? Was it both? The discussions got really heated and one guy got up in disgust at said, "Whoever is crazy enough to want to be a Jew, is a Jew." In the history of the United States, any new group of immigrates had problems. Who was ever here first, looked down on the new commers. My own family came around the 1840s from Germany, They changed their name so it wouldn't sound German. They particularly kept a low profile during WWI. The anti-German feelings were running high then.

[@davidroman3355]

Great video, respect!!

[@andreeaalexandru7811]

Disgusting video and much disrespect you mean.

[@danawynkoop9511]

My family is Ashkenazy. I have dark curly hair, brown eyes, and olive skin. When I was around 12, I asked my redheaded, blue-eyed grandmother, if we are white. She said, “Well I am, but I don’t know about you.”

[@RawPower867]

Inasmuch as white means "European", we're not. We're Levantine.

[@yonboi6644]

@@RawPower867 In the context of American definitions of race, most Jews would be white (since many Ashkenazi and Sephardic, as well as some Mizrachi, communities have pale enough skin to be white, even if it is predominantly olive toned). But that doesn't take away from their Levantine heritage

[@hebrewnation121]

ASHKE""NAZI"" ARE SON OF GOMER...KJV....GENESIS 10:3 WHICH MAKE THEM JAPHETHITES NOT SHEMITES THEY ARE THE ACTUAL GENTILES,....KJV....GENESIS 10:5...I MADE A VIDEO ABOUT THEM

[@saraleigh5336]

White-passing might be a useful term. (I’m not telling anyone which term to use, just suggesting an option.)

[@saraleigh5336]

I know a Jewish family with a set of twins, one is pale with red hair, the other has olive skin with dark hair. (They both got the curly hair, though.)

[@tarsisvanbrussel5221]

Not all Jews are Whites. Jews are very diverse. Beautiful people !

[@fenrorev5995]

diverse like people who play golf yesssss very diverse indeen lol

[@CrackHeadDaddy]

No they're very ugly

[@luistomas4206]

BULLSHIT. They are white Caucasians, EASTERN EUROPEANS who converted to Judaism in 740 AD. Only a liar or a fool would look at them and say they are not white. As for the ones claiming to be Olive-skinned, the term olive-skinned actually meant BLACK-SKINNED because the Jews are BLACK, not light, not tanned, not white, not Caucasians. They were, BLACKskinned people what we would call Black, or Afro-American or Negroes. today.

[@calistafalcontail]

"Beautiful people" - do you mean by heart or...? Cause there is literally the stereotype about jews being not so blessed in the genetics department. Its hard to find an attractive one whos fully jewish.

[@jackreacher4297]

8.9k likes / 8.1k dislikes for those who can't see the dislike button due to censorship.

[@soraiya2065]

Do you get to see the dislikes for real? I thought they just got rid of them. I used to use the ratio of likes/dislikes as a gauge of whether a video was worth watching. Do you know if there's a way I can switch them on?

[@deemo5245]

+1

[@Hilman_Faiz]

@@soraiya2065 many people use plugin that "return" the dislike number. And the number of dislike clicked by its user (and some algorithm by the plugin) is recorded and shown to other users

[@soraiya2065]

@@Hilman_Faiz Thank you! I will look into this....maybe there is a KZbin video on it. ;)

[@Lord_Hamlet_III]

I think we all know who is responsible for the dislikes

[@Chef_Pooh]

Great job on this! Great subject and very instructive! Bravo!

[@0707565]

Are you a black jew ?

[@Chef_Pooh]

@JermarWilliamson Your argument puzzling. You obviously believe old, debunked stories. DNA today can tell you the truth. What you said about the Lemba was proven beyond reasonable doubt. However, Jews come in multiple colors and ethnicity because people have always traveled around the world.

[@willlovehavelove4703]

Fact 1# Everyone on earth comes from non- disease mutated gene humic parents i.e. so-called ruddy blacks. Fact 2# Only Black men and women have the oldest human genes on earth and were Adam and eve. Fact 3# White European skin is produced by a disease mutated non-human gene. Fact 4# Adam and eve would have to be infected with a disease, in order to produce a mutant white skin child with blue eyes. Fact 5# In order for a Human being to be born, a modern-day Ashkenazi the human will have to be infected, with a non-human diseased gene, a mutation, white European skin. Fact 6# the Holy Bible indicates in 2Kings 5:27 that white European skin is an auto immune disease produced from a Biblical white skin curse, because of sin. Fact 7# To say that the 12 tribe of Israel, the savior's body is an auto immune disease sin, curse, of white Europeans that are known to carry a wet dog smell is Blasphemy....

[@corisereni5937]

Love this man! Good job!

[@Facts-Over-Feelings]

JUST BECAUSE THEY THE CONTROLLERS OF A DEMONIC SYSTEM SAYS THIS OR THAT PERSON IS THIS OR THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE...LOL

[@Paser00]

He’s wrong on several points.

[@user-zt7ne3bt8p]

Very well and powerfully done!

[@chavafinkler36]

HI I appreciate this video content. Thanks for your hard work! BUT who are you?? Whats your name? with which organizations are you affiliated? Whats your history?? Its important to include your own social and political location when you do these videos.

[@UNPACKED]

Hey glad to hear you enjoy our content! You can learn more about Unpacked here: www.jewishunpacked.com

[@MatthewSandberg]

Ok, MOSSAD

[@HistoryfortheAges]

Once again thank you. Teaching the history of the Middle East I know full well Jewish people come from all colors. My parents are Iraqi Jews. Treated so poorly. I made a video about what happened to the Jews in the Arab world on my channel.

[@HistoryfortheAges]

@Donald Trump Father of the Vaccine what?

[@HistoryfortheAges]

@Donald Trump Father of the Vaccine you clearly are full of hate. Sad. I will pray for you

[@semsemeini7905]

My Iraqi Jewish relatives are cappucino.

[@ed.z.]

The story of Persian Jews is a very important part of world history. Without learning from our history the future is loop of endless tragedy.

[@BBWahoo]

@@ed.z. Babylonian/Assyrian Jews as well, a lot of them now identify as Cypriot!

[@Renfield286]

David Baddiel released a book a year or two back called "jews don't count" which explores this topic through the lens of a Jewish man living in the uk

[@almondboyo2428]

That was a wonderful book. It was to the point and eloquent.

[@stars-555]

propaganda lies

[@ColmPadraig]

How can Jews not count when they own the media, banks and academia?

[@deeznutz8320]

Which was Hilariously stupid When that black weave queen from the labour Party blamed whites for the murder of Sasha Johnson the media did nothing When she said Blacks suffer more than Jews she got disbarred😂 Badiel is an idiot and a zionistic POS

[@jackreacher4297]

Well becuase you have an Israeli living in say Scotland.. its not about white or non white its about nationality at that point..

[@AmaraYahu]

You done well with this video ❤Shalum

[@rebellerevelle]

Nowadays in the US, it doesn't matter what your ancestral heritage or religious identity is. If you have fair skin and facial features that appear European, then you pass as "white". If you have darker skin and/or facial features that appear non-European (i.e. Asian, African, Middle Eastern, Native American, Aboriginal, etc) then you aren't considered white or fully white, but can attain honorary whiteness based on your class status and cultural assimilation. If you don't look white, then you won't be considered white. If you look white, then you'll be considered white...

[@dallasgrey4247]

The variety of types of Jews there are is why I will no matter what mention that they exist when someone makes a joke about Jews being white. Not all of them are and this video is actually a good explanation of that and an amazing explanation about how the way race is seen defines Jews and others. Btw am I the only one who think Hollywood needs more representation of non Ashkenazi Jews ?

[@saraleigh5336]

Yes, but part of the point is even white-passing Jews are white-passing. Not white.

[@rabbiezekielgoldberg2497]

Hollywood needs less jews in general (preferably none), doesn't matter their origins.

[@andrewstaples7544]

Like ethiopian jews or Mizrahi jews to play characters from the bible

[@dallasgrey4247]

@@andrewstaples7544 exactly. Or have movies and tv shows centered around a Mizrahi or Ethiopian family.

[@Lagolop]

You are 'ful mit drek'. Don't take your issues out on Ashkenazi Jews.

[@furstylist]

What might cause some confusion is "white" is a fairly new term. The racial terminology used to be Caucasian up until pretty recently. I remember my mother especially was upset when she was forced to pick a skin color on some form or application. It is a rude and crude way to identify a person. But Caucasian just means light skin tone of European descent

[@shaynefowley5689]

Now I while pick other until Caucasian returns.

[@DustinLaGriza]

Caucasian means "from the Caucasus", but was applied to Europeans when Johann Blumenbach divided humans into five colors--black, brown, yellow, red and white. He thought the skull of a Caucasian concubine epitomized the ideals of "whiteness" so used that term for white people. It's a pseud-scientific term but people in the US used it in the 19th century because they thought it sounded more scientific. For most of the world it is confusing because Caucasian specifically means Armenian, Georgian, Azeri, etc.

[@starwberriez]

now you know how it feels

[@WillOrng]

​... it's white supremacy embedded in US law.

[@shaynefowley5689]

@@starwberriez how what feels?

[@BoozewithNick]

I’m half Ashkenazic, and proud of it, and I do not identify as wholly white. Looking at pictures of my paternal (Ashkenazic) grandparents and my maternal (white Anglo-Saxon) ones leaves little doubt that many “white” Jews are ethnically distinct from our Germano-Celtic neighbors. If it helps clarify a murky question, I think it is fair to say that white-ish Jews are “socially white” in a post-war American context, but perhaps not in other ways. I take after my dad physically and am dark-complected and rather typically Jewish looking. I sometimes get mistaken for Greek, or Sicilian, or occasionally a light-skinned Hispanic, but no one ever looks at me and says “Gee, do you have Scandinavian ancestry?”. Anyway, good job with the video.

[@CommonSenceGUY79]

Judaism is a religion, it's not an ethnic group of people! Europeans converted to Judaism. They are not indigenous/ethnically North Africans! in fact Europeans came to North Africa as invaders.

[@abbeyroad9529]

wow a great piece of history to learn! thank you

[@seekingtruthalways1235]

Propaganda is legal.

[@ToriHalfon]

This is such a great episode. I had a big fight with someone online in 2020, saying that racists choose who’s “white” or a “race” not academics. They also wanted to dismiss my very real experience with the KKK, as not “counting” because I’m white presenting. Everyone’s experiences are different. A black person or a Jew are going to have very different experiences growing up in a diverse big city vs. a rural small town for example. I wish I had been armed with this video at the time. Thank you for exploring the issue.

[@ericdunn1113]

Black People are Jews historically. King David of the Bible is a Black Man and so are his descendants.

[@davruck1]

Academics and racists are often one and the same. Western science is based on racism.

[@johndemeritt3460]

@@davruck1, I'm curious what draws you to that conclusion. Would you mind explaining a bit more?

[@davruck1]

@@johndemeritt3460 Western “science” is nothing more than philosophy. They made assumptions about things and attempted to explain them through their biased views. Most Europeans are suffering from cognitive dissonance and cannot acknowledge their biases or that they may be completely wrong. That’s why they go around seeking evidence to confirm their biases and worldview. Real science is empirical. For example predicting how an object moves is based on experimenting and objective. Claiming that an invisible force called gravity acts upon an object is philosophy and subjective. Here’s a hint: I’m a professional engineer and the government doesn’t care about philosophy, which is why their tech is way ahead, while everyone else seems “stuck” trying to figure out certain issues. They’re about to rewrite all the science textbooks. Even the concept of science textbooks is ridiculous. Textbooks are for indoctrination

[@Jamie-Z]

@@davruck1 No, science is based on rational and objective thought. If it is based on racism it cannot be science.

[@RawPower867]

If "white" means "European descent" then Ashkenazi Jews are not "white". Ashkenazi Jews are a Levantine diaspora population. Spending exile in Europe is not the same as being of European descent (i.e. originating in Europe). Re: jgoff76 The Irish/Italian situation isn't comparable to the Jewish one, imo. For one thing, Irish and Italians are European populations. Jews are a MENA diaspora. Second, antisemitism is still a massive problem in America and other white majority societies. Jews are still excluded and targeted by white supremacy. Neither of these things is true of Irish and Italians. Arab-Americans would be a useful referent for an analogy here.

[@deborahfreedman333]

Well said.

[@yahsbotanical]

Regardless If Your Ashkenazi Or Any Type Of Practicing Jew If You Have European Paternal Ancestry That Has European Haplogroups Like Haplogroup J You Are Not From The Levant, European Haplogroups Are Not Indigenous & Most Ashkenazi Are European In Ancestry & Jewish In Practice.

[@RawPower867]

@@yahsbotanical Haplogroup J is a Middle Eastern haplogroup. Go away, you antisemitic BHI poseur.

[@rebbiakiva]

​@Yah's Botanical After a thousand years in exile in Europe some European DNA has entered the gene poll however the majority of Ashkenazi DNA still remains Levantine and this has been the conclusion of study after study.

[@truenokill]

Well no white means Caucasian

[@user-rz2vz1hd3z]

Thank you for your work! I hope it will be watched by a lot of people around us.😊

[@derrickyoung6501]

I love this great and knowledgeable video!!!

[@John_P._Buryiak]

Seeing that Jacob Riis quote was quite a shock to me because I grew up on New York City's Lower East Side next to the Jacob Riis housing project. I'm sure that there must have been at least a few Jews living there who would be surprised to discover what the man their home is named after thought of them.

[@amyt2400]

@John_P._Buryiak Same here. Ends up the guy had a distaste for the demographic that he served. Very confusing.

[@heath0013]

this is honestly the best explenation i have ever heard. thank you so much.

[@jumolbureanu2415]

a shek3l for a good g0 y

[@Conserpov]

Did you drop out of elementary school?

[@electricearth1101]

do jews have white skin? yes. are white people called white because they have white skin? yes.

[@willlovehavelove4703]

Fact 1# Everyone on earth comes from non- disease mutated gene humic parents i.e. so-called ruddy blacks. Fact 2# Only Black men and women have the oldest human genes on earth and were Adam and eve. Fact 3# White European skin is produced by a disease mutated non-human gene. Fact 4# Adam and eve would have to be infected with a disease, in order to produce a mutant white skin child with blue eyes. Fact 5# In order for a Human being to be born, a modern-day Ashkenazi the human will have to be infected, with a non-human diseased gene, a mutation, white European skin. Fact 6# the Holy Bible indicates in 2Kings 5:27 that white European skin is an auto immune disease produced from a Biblical white skin curse, because of sin. Fact 7# To say that the 12 tribe of Israel, the savior's body is an auto immune disease sin, curse, of white Europeans that are known to carry a wet dog smell is Blasphemy....

[@TheRockerX]

Did you get dropped on your head as a baby?@@Conserpov

[@nancywysemen7196]

good presentation. clear graphics,clear observation.thank-you.

[@theclassroomdoc]

That was so interesting. I love nuance!! :)

[@UNPACKED]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@elijahsmall5873]

Same!

[@funnyunkle]

Why just yesterday I was shared a story of a polish Jew who sadly raised his children up denying jewish identity because of fear they would be targeted. He ask how I was so bold to always wear my kippah? I corrected him gently and stated not bold just me, proud and visible. My heritage is mixed and I identify as half white. UNPACKED team is so Great. keep up the amazing videos.

[@joldendoves2795]

Why is this hater allowed to attack whites and get away with it. He's trying to turn every other race against whites for some strange reason.

[@ColmPadraig]

That's probably because of the leading Jewish role and creation of communism

[@andreeaalexandru7811]

The "amazing" videos. The video was embarrassing.

[@funnyunkle]

@@andreeaalexandru7811 please explain why to educate me.

[@RabbiNosenbergShekelstein]

You aren't white lol

[@Ccavemark32]

I really enjoyed much of your vid. I didnt care much for the phrase "whiteness is by definition, white supremacist." I did like you say that victim Olympics is dangerous. well done on the vid my man!

[@lydiakelly9367]

I think he said that because the idea of whiteness was born out of a desire to justify superiority over others / to justify slavery. people didn’t always categorize themselves as white

[@TheAmericanPrometheus]

The American left's conception of 'whiteness' truly betrays a complete lack of knowledge regarding European history. Eastern Europe was for many centuries plundered and exploited by the Mongols and then the Turks, before eventually the Swedes, Russians and Germans had their turns.

[@veganath]

This guy is a race baiter & very divisive. This is a non-topic, the only thing informed by skin pigmentation is skin colour and ONLY to those with eyes to see! Most importantly skin colour doesn't inform behaviour that takes ideology, religious or political. The ONLY trait for moral consideration is being human!!! I also extend such moral consideration to non-human animals. As of this comment 9K thumbsup & 8.4k thumbsdown speaks volumes to my claim that this guy is race baiting. Bhagavad Gita 5.18: The truly learned, with the eyes of divine knowledge, see with equal vision a Brahmin, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater.

[@MetalBansheeX]

The concept or whiteness was created out of white supremacist ideas and intentions. It was white supremacist in its roots and it can still be white supremacist now, but it usually isn't.

[@SkeletonXin]

"whiteness is by definition, white supremacist." Yes, he's calling you a nazi, dude. Why are you fawning over someone who hates you?

[@ageshero]

Asking the important questions 😅

[@phillipbrown8702]

This was an incredible video. It open my eyes to what my Ashkenazi brothers and sister have to go through. As a black Jew some times you all see things through your own lens. I had to take step back and mediate on this one.

[@olof1382]

Wow

[@SigKyle-pm4fb]

You might be upset to know that Netanyahu ordered "all African Infiltrators to be deported" on Sept 6th, 2023... as was done previously in 2006. "Who ran the slave trade" might be a helpful source for directing your thoughts!

[@dexterlecter7289]

This was the worst and least informative video I’ve ever seen. I have studied propoganda and this is some of the most blatant I’ve seen.

[@CanalParaMusica-bz1hv]

Black and jew? sorry but for the state of israel you are not a real jew

[@bazbuco]

@@dexterlecter7289If it's propaganda, then what is the underlying motive or agenda of the video? Please, enfuckinglighten us.

[@maryrowe1504]

“White” often meant “WASP” and other European descended people weren’t considered to be of the same caliber. I remember my grandma (born 1921) saying “we aren’t Irish we’re Scots-Irish”!to describe our ethnic origins. She was technically right- researching our genealogy proved this so, however due to prejudice this was a common way to distance ourselves from the “other”. My bio dad was Cajun- another ethnicity not considered “white” at times. I think in this case it was a language issue- I remember French language tv shows on our local stations in the 70’s and 80’s and many of us had parents and grandparents who were native speakers. Kids were paddled for speaking French in school and the language dwindled but there are valiant efforts to restore it. Long story short I believe that prejudice is as much based on social class and money as it is skin tones

[@Jazzicalglass]

😢Paddled for speaking native language 😳

[@damionkeeling3103]

Most Scots were accepted into the WASP label as they'd embraced Protestantism by the late 16th century. They were culturally attuned enough to England for the Scottish King to take the English crown after Queen Elizabeth died without children at the start of the 17th century though it would be another 100 years before the two parliaments amalgamated to form Great Britain.

[@fe6767]

@@damionkeeling3103 The Protestant Reformations in Scotland and England were separate and took different routes but happened almost in parallel. The reason a Scottish king became king of England too was that he was the closest living relative to the dead queen and her Tudor ancestors (one of his great-grandfathers was the queen's grandfather King Henry VII). Being Protestant and English-speaking were 2 of the requirements for migrants from Scotland and England who were part of the Plantation of Ulster.

[@maryrowe1504]

@@Jazzicalglass and we weren’t Native American

[@mjgraycomm]

"WASP," by definition, is a label for people who are Anglo, affluent, and protestant. So, what do you do with poor atheists who happen to be of European descent?

[@Michaela1942]

As a Jew, an American, a human being - I've never answered those boxes on race. If it's a write in and they ask my race, I write in Human. And, that's the end of that.

[@toddianuzzi9296]

You're a Jew. That'd the end of that

[@robertc8110]

Agreed

[@CLM2204]

Great Point, because the word Jewish is like the word American - it means all colors & names as Hebrews like Jesus was.

[@dollyhewett2553]

EXCELLENT!

[@dollyhewett2553]

THANK YOU...

[@kevconn441]

Great video. But can I just point out that the Christchurch shooter wasn't a New Zealander. He is Australian who travelled to NZ to commit his crime. Not suggesting anything about Australians, but as a Kiwi, when it happened, I couldn't process why someone from this country could have done such a thing. Yes, we have crazies and prejudice, but anti-Semitism seemed completely foreign to me.

[@elainegoad9777]

My cousin's father was Jewish. (My cousin practices Christianity) Is my cousin, her children, grandchildren, etc... not white since they all have Ashkenazi Jewish blood ? I would be interesting to know. ( My cousin didn't find out who her real father was until her mother was on her deathbed)

[@53evi]

No, your cousin is not Jewish.Only if his mother have been Jewish.

[@Rep.Taylors_Version]

For antisemitic some probably would categorize him as jewish (as nazis did) because his blood even tho he isn't

[@Ps-tj8rm]

If you look at DNA only , then no , they have remains of middle eastern jews If you look at what Far right and racist say , no , they are middle eastern If you look at their skin ? yes , they look white

[@Smarty2able]

They're just white. Ashkenzais are not Jewish. Do the research

[@pele220]

@@Smarty2ableashkenazis are direct descendants of jewish roman slaves taken from israel to Europe, in judaism if your mother is jewish and you keep the “Commandments” and all the stories you are jewish , that’s the only way to be jewish, they are all jewish

[@reuvenshalit2655]

The American obsession with skin color and the anachronistic concept of "race" is beyond me.

[@lemonlimelukey]

thats great maybe read a book or two.

[@beganitdidnt6535]

cool but who is pushing this stuff i wonder

[@Doyourbest4245]

When diversity is trusted upon your civilization, you will begin to notice it too

[@houseofbreadsoul4796]

I really appreciate the videos made my Unpaked. I ususually finish each video with some sort of clarity BUT this one is a word salad. "...Oppression olympics is a harmful game." But he is playing it the whole time.

[@shanna_9]

Thank you for this video ❤ I'm an extremely white-skin-colored Ashkenazi Jew from Eastern Europe, but my grandfather had very dark skin, so it isn't so simple even within one family 💯

[@Eduardo_Ventura]

Since you mentioned Brazil, we are the 10th country with more Jews. First black Jew I saw was close to my home and he was very, very dark skinned.

[@strrts5135]

Love ur videos! I always feel funny thinking about this I’m not white I’m Jewish!

[@Alina-ws6ob]

In my country, when a baby is born, in the birth certificate they don’t categorize the baby’s race but his physical characteristics- skin color, hair and eye color - the end.

[@Facts-Over-Feelings]

JUST BECAUSE THEY THE CONTROLLERS OF A DEMONIC SYSTEM SAYS THIS OR THAT PERSON IS THIS OR THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE...LOL

[@napoleonbonaparte4396]

I like that. what is your country?

[@fe6767]

Why do they care about skin colour, hair and eye colour? Do they leave hair colour blank for babies born without hair?

[@onsokumaru4663]

All of those characteristics you just listed actually make up ones race (especially skin colour), so there's no difference.

[@malarobo]

@@napoleonbonaparte4396 All european countries don't categorize people by race

[@joeg7849]

Excellent! Superb presentation of some hard hitting historical facts that didn't pull any punches. I'm old and these problems have been going on longer than I have been alive, but I hope it changes in the future.

[@Aurora4350]

Thank you for so eloquently stating reasons i dont feel comfortable identifying as white, from a soviet union Jew who lived and grew up in America since 1994

[@a.m204]

I am Brown and I am a Jew

[@JeffShacter]

Am Yisrael Chai

[@vergilito1]

Oh boy

[@calvinm1866]

Good point.

[@AdamSahr-cj4kf]

If you have a good reason to believe you are Jewish, being brown is a good start...

[@JorgePetraglia2009]

Particularly these days is very difficult to pack people into "different races" based on the colour of their skin. Although Tamils are predominantly of very dark skin, no one will call them blacks, though Tamil it is not considered a race, but an ethnic group as much as Jews are. The only time colour becomes an important factor is when one has to describe a person by their most prominent physical characteristics, such, again, colour of their skin. Using skin colour as a parameter to judge social and cultural characteristics of a person, or a group, is simply wrong and discriminatory. At the same time, making racism a crime allows us to believe that a person should be separated into groups based on the colour of their skin , while discrimination should be considered more accurate to describe that particular crime, although it doesn't carry as much weight as racism. The idea of different races among humans has been adopted for far too long, so much so that we keep forgetting that we humans, as a whole, are a race regardless of skin tone. Anything else has been craftily designed to keep us separated, which in turn makes the vast majority of us to be easily dominated by a minority , as it keeps happening today. Greetings from Toronto.

[@reginaldbivins1836]

The real jews are black just like Jesus was and is ⚫ Black

[@evelynmahoney3992]

when say the jews are God's chosen people...that was centuries ago because God wanted a people to follow Him to teach the rest of the world it started with Abraham n his family...the tribes came from one of his sons... when things got out of hand God created Jesus His begotten son....how come the modern jews of tday still lookin for the messiah n do not respect Gods plan?.. Gods people are obedient not separate..followin Gods way...the Christian way. the jews of tday are not the Hebrew jews of centuries ago...God is not if confusin division n hate. supremacy start from within no race is above the other why didn't the jews help the coloreds black african americans since they knew wht prejudice was in Germany..how much could hav been etched in stone if the jews had rallied to the black race.blacks too had their Holacaust it's continuing more than any other race why are they targeted mistreated even tday? prejudice still...anti wht u call it?...annihilation one by one same as .... think abt it...unfair practices...why hav a race to just be looked down upon who stands for rgt there is a heaven n hell... judgment will prevail since w/o Your faith in Jesus Christ there is no hope in the end. God knows All no one can save themself

[@Fredrikbb]

Yeah you guys struggle alot with ethnicities in North America. I mean you guys even consider that North africans are white lol, makes me chuckle.

[@SmallGuyonTop]

It has always been that way, except in certain communities that are almost all black or almost all white or almost all chocolate. Even in the 1970's many people report growing up in mixed neighborhoods. Don't buy into the false narratives built since the 1990's.

[@user-ed9wk3vd2r]

Why always the Tamil actresses are fair skins?

[@richardhaley3347]

The question itself lends to another question. All are Jews white or are they varying shades of melanin. Are all African black or are they varying shades of melanin?

[@JagdDachshund]

Melanin doesn't equate to race, skull shape determines race

[@plant_paradox5663]

That's why I never understood the term brown people

[@youtubefans510]

race is more than skin colour , I am white european , if I paint myself brown I will not look asian, it is just common sense , and if you look white it doesn't mean you are , if your appearance is brown hair and brown eyes it doesn't mean you don't carry a red hair gene

[@christianstainazfischer]

The whole concept is pretty complicated and unfortunately has a really dark past. I personally do believe that it is a real thing and not just a social construct, and honestly I think the existence thereof is actually really really cool, think about it, imagine a world where all of us looked basically the same, how boring would that be? Its existence in my opinion is just another thing that makes all of us more unique, and I think every person on the planet should be proud of who they are and where they came from. It's just things like slight differences that helped us survive in our environments in which we belived for however many thousands of years, one big thing is how different pigment levels that helped either block sunlight because it was abundant, or let more in because we lived somewhere where we didn't have as much sunlight throughout the year, ultimately helping prevent sunburn or cancer, or contrastly helping us keep balanced levels of vitamins, but one that I think is actually particularly cool and honestly helpful is the subtle differences in bone structure, which in forensics can help determine what a skeleton would have looked like when they were alive which has helped us solve SO MANY missing person cases, and even further for things like Ötzie (I don't know if I spelled that right), that frozen guy from the Alps where we can see where ancient people came from. I think however the concept of judging someone based on our appearance isn't something that really should be blamed on one particular group or another, because that comes from all kinds of different groups of people, and I think the origin of this comes from something pretty interesting. Basically, as groups of people developed isolated from others they of course slowly evolved to be a little different depending on their environment, and this evolution isn't exclusively in physical appearance, but also culture, language, religion, but the real important one that I think is actually the real root and cause of all of this is that we developed both different tolerances and intolerances to diseases. Whenever two separated groups of people came into contact, in even the not so so distant past, both groups became exposed to different diseases that would result in tragic loss for both people's, and I think that resulted in a sometimes subconscious and sometimes on-purpose motivation to avoid outlanders. Unfortunately people at that time across the globe were not all on the same page scientifically so people came to different conclusions as to WHY they didn't want to interact with certain groups of people. This could be directed towards certain religions, languages, cultures, even architecture :( but the one that we focus on the most today is appearance, and this although came from innocent origins of simply trying to protect your kin from sickness, it over time evolved into something pretty tragic. Today we live in a world that's different. We now have vaccines so the threat of disease is largely an easily avoidable problem as long as you just use your common sense. Our discrimination today is COMPLETELY IRRATIONAL. Not only is the disease thing really not a problem anymore, but we also now know that biologically there's nothing about our appearances that makes anyone less than another. Regarding culture, I think we live in a REALLY cool point in time where it is SO easy to gain exposure to other people through both the internet and easy transportation, and honestly if we all expose ourselves to other cultures we can find 'oh this aspect of this other culture is something really cool that works well for them and really seems to improve their quality of life' and therefore we can actually refine our own cultures to adopt aspects of others lives and in a way work together as ONE HUMANITY to improve the GLOBAL quality of life. We can now look at other's architecture and admire it, and if you don't that's fine, but I personally love seeing the differences among us and how we have made ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL creations all across the globe. I don't know about you but I think that is SO SO COOL!!! As for the title of the video, I think honestly there really isn't an actual answer and I think the question in itself isn't very useful, and here's where I agree on why it is a social construct. See I think that it is real, but how we previously defined it wasn't very scientific, but we also lived in a time where global interaction wasn't as common as now, so in a way it was easier to make the distinction, but for the wrong reasons. Originally we all started off in one place and that's ultimately why we're all the same species, and then we spread out and isolated ourselves, evolved into our uniquenesses and what not, BUT, those differences are not separated by clear boundaries, and it's pretty much the same thing linguistically too. Arabic is a pretty big language, and is spoken in many many countries. If you were dropped off in say the middle of Saudi Arabia and learned how to speak Arabic exactly like how they do there, and then took yourself 50 miles west towards Africa, there would be slight differences in how they speak, but you'd still have no trouble communicating, and if you keep that pattern up, by the time you reach far North-West Africa, it's still Arabic but you'd really struggle to communicate because it just slowly became almost unrecognizable, and you at that point would be inclined to label the language of your home village in Saudi Arabia and Morocco as completely different, but it's really just one big thing that in linguistics we call a 'dialect continuum'. I think our appearances are the exact same way. You start in Northern Finland and work your way down to South Africa, the change in appearance in theory should be almost unnoticeable, similar to the frog in cold to hot water thing. So in all reality there isn't really a clear distinction on where a label for one group of people starts and ends, instead we artificially make that distinction, thus, the 'social construct' with the boarders of countries, which is entirely political and not based on anything material. So depending on where a someone is from, his appearance will simply just be different, and when comparing the appearance of any two people, the difference of appearance will be more subtle or more obvious depending on the distance between the homelands of those to people. Furthermore, in the modern age as we all have, in reality, super easy transportation compared to our past, and people migrate into other societies those differences become mixed together and that makes that unscientific distinction of that past that a lot of us still have deeply engrained into our societies, pretty hard to make, and who knows, maybe in the distant future the idea our differences might be something that completely fades away if we end up all merging together, and maybe some crazy situation might happen before then that causes us to go back several thousand years and we develop entirely new differences, who knows. The important thing is to be kind to one another and to celebrate our differences! Let us admire our unique developments and different advancements in technology or culture. For crying out loud, the Proto-Indo-Europeans likely domesticated the horse and developed the wheel and we descendants of them should be proud of that, during the Middle Ages the Arabs had some of the best physicians that the world had ever seen up until that point, and anyone who's Arab should be proud of that. Look into who you are, where you came from, learn more about what your ancestors did to contribute to modern society, and that could be something beneficial like math, science, engineering, medicine, and it could be more entertainment based things like music. Oh music!!! How cool are the different kinds of music that we have all come up with! The European 12 tone equal temperament scale is so beautiful, the syncopation of African music giving us the concept of groove! So many popular genres of music wouldn't even exist if there was no concept of syncopation and groove. The microtonal notes and the unique time signatures of Indian music! Oh my goodness it is so so cool! Be proud of who you are! Every single one of us comes from some group of people, and every single one is FILLED with an incredibly rich history and the world would be a pitiful place if we didn't have these. Love yourself, and love others. We are all beautiful and wonderful beings, and our uniquenesses are something to celebrate and learn from. There's this movie based on a book, both are called 'The Giver', both the book and the movie are absolutely fantastic! The basic plot if you haven't seen or read it, is there's this society where there is literally no uniqueness, there is no color, no music, no dancing, the only real differences are basically fingerprints, eyes, age, height, personality, but pretty much everything else is gone. Anyway, there's a scene in the movie where our historical uniquenesses get exposed to this society and there's this montage of all these different cultures and it shows both the terrible, and the beautiful, and it's really powerful emotionally, and I seriously recommend giving that scene in particular a watch, but the book and the full movie really are so good. There's also 'We Are The People' by Marin Garrix, Bono and The Edge, and Martin Garrix did a more dance festival remix version of the song and the music video for that has a really similar concept and I also recommend giving that a watch. Anyway, I hope whoever reads this the best, take care of yourself and keep your friends and family close. My grandmother just passed away a week ago and I really regret not spending as much time with her as I could have, please don't make the mistake I have. I love you all and hope you have a great rest of your day :)

[@rosemarygilman8718]

I'm amazed at how brilliantly you can distlill and communicate a tremendous amount of information in a10 minute video! Well done! Thank you so much! This is reall important stuff.

[@carlosagarcia9385]

Ohh... A collection of stupid lies....?

[@ericdunn1113]

dis·til·la·tion noun 1. the action of purifying a liquid by a process of heating and cooling. "the petroleum distillation process" Similar: distilling purification refining filtering filtration treatment processing sublimation fractionation pressing squeezing extraction extracting drawing out concentration condensation reduction 2. the extraction of the essential meaning or most important aspects of something. "the film is a distillation of personal experiences"🙃

[@deeplorable8988]

This man, the presenter, seems very angry.

[@carlosagarcia9385]

@@deeplorable8988 Not angry at all... Laser beam accurate... This is not Donald Trump talking....

[@Facts-Over-Feelings]

THE REAL QUESTION SHOULD BE, WHAT PHENOTYPE DO EUROPEAN JEWS COME FROM... MONGOLOID, NEGROID OR CACAZOID. THERES ONLY 1 THAT WHITE PEOPLE COME FROM.

[@Matzah1982]

My father was Irish and my mother was Jewish. My mother was olive skinned because her mother was Sefardic. I grew up where my father was from in the Shenandoah valley of VA. in the 80s and 90s and my mother and I were always ‘’the other’’ despite my father being from the valley and his ppl having been in the valley since the late 18th century and me being born in the valley and speaking with a country twang

[@amyt2400]

@Libertarian1982 It’s never too late to return.

[@Matzah1982]

בשנה הבאה בירושלים

[@TheCastedone]

yall would all be white to me

[@Matzah1982]

@@TheCastedone what even is whiteness and blackness? It’s all very relative terms that don’t mean much because essentially we’re all just ppl who are all made equally in the image of G-d

[@TheCastedone]

@Shootist1982 I agree with your statement and judge man and woman by their character, not the color of their skin. But...for the sake of identity in America...which was built on a racial system if you have predominantly European heritage and DNA you will be known as "white". Otherwise, we need to abolish the entire "white"and "black" description unless it's for health and safety concerns. Maybe America can overcome its past to some degree. But with racial elements playing a huge part of America's conception it's really hard to get away from it all.

[@tali6616]

My grandma is a Jew (nationality-wise, she is not religious). Both of my sisters made DNA-tests in different labs, and they showed 25% of Jewish DNA. My skin is light, but I never get sunburns and easily tan to dark brown shades. However, many Jews are light-skinned, blue-eyed, with light hair. For some of them, having appearance like this saved their ancestors from the Holocaust. It's so much more complicated than just skin color.

[@antoniogutierrezjr7471]

The Jews we see def not look like the Jews of the Bible

[@ricktmusicus4852]

"they showed 25% of Jewish DNA", what type of Jewish? Ashkenazim, Sfardim, Mizrahim? Different Jews are made up of different populations they live in which usually different "races" or ethnic groups - can you add?

[@JagdDachshund]

It's not complicated Jews are more closely related to Europeans than to Arabs, Jews have DNA similar to Italians

[@carminecavaliere3908]

i hate to be the one to break the news to you, but the word jew is a religion, not a bloodline of people, though they like to call themselves jewish, odds are they are khazarian (which is modern day ukraine)

[@LongNoseBreaker]

​@@carminecavaliere3908Qtard

[@kenyaharris954]

Thank you for another informative video. Long live Yisrael Baruk HaShem Ki LaOlam Kasdo…

[@gabrielledennis4103]

Thanks for this interesting and educational video. So sad how people found excuses to discriminate against each other. I wish people would focus on the common good instead of differences.

[@Facts-Over-Feelings]

THE REAL QUESTION SHOULD BE, WHAT PHENOTYPE DO EUROPEAN JEWS COME FROM... MONGOLOID, NEGROID OR CACAZOID. THERES ONLY 1 THAT WHITE PEOPLE COME FROM.

[@electricearth1101]

do jews have white skin? yes. are white people called white because they have white skin? yes.

[@GoldberryIsland]

Indeed. Ignorance is a curse.

[@wolfsoldier5105]

Never happen. Diversity is NOT a strength! History proves this. Diversity only leads to conflict.

[@silverbullet2008bb]

These people label themselves as "white" when it suits them and then set themselves apart from whites when that is expedient to their interests.

[@crqf2010ruler]

Why was the ADL created? And if Whiteness is a social construct, then all other "races" are also constructs, and there's no such thing as an African-American, but only what is perceived to be one. So, if someone was born in, say, Osterbotten Sweden, to a family of Sapmi people, but immigrated and lives in the USA, they can be "Black/African American", even if they don't speak English but rather their own native Uralic tongue, or have ever had any contact with any "Blacks", because they can be seen as such by others that think they are "Black" or by the "non-Blacks".

[@BoELoot]

"White" is people of the "Caucasoid" race. "Black" is people of the "Negroid" race. "Oriental" is people of the "Mongoloid" race. Some anthropologists argue there is a very small population of a fourth race called "Australoid" to refer to people indigenous to the continent of Australia. That's it. It's not a "social construct". "Social Construct" is a term invented by racists, specifically Leftist identitarians, to carve out a boogie man for people to hate. It's cultural Marxism and it is the true racism infecting the West today. The guy speaking in this video, and the people who run this channel, are racists who don't even believe the things they're saying. They just want you to believe it so you'll think how they want you to think.

[@youtubefans510]

gender and race a social construct ? and I think I am an alien born on earth ? no , middle eastern, skin colour alone does not define race , it is dna, facial features etc. and there are different white races, germanic , celtic , slavic etc. , that is a scientific fact, I should know , I am scottish from my mother's side living in Holland , I see the differences

[@Lithuanianprime]

I am almost positive I have the same stat of David you do. Does yours have the tribes or Israel on them?

[@karstenvoigt7280]

The distinction between "white" and "non-white" as the main line of division is a phenomenon, that has mainly been established in the context of colonialism and thereby in the (former) colonies, mainly in the new world. In Europe it didn't work that way. Antisemites didn't discriminate Jews, because they were seen as "non-white". They weren't categorized in that way. "Whiteness" didn't mean that much. Not like i.e. to the slavers states across the Atlantic ocean. Neither Jews nor Slavs or Irish were denied the label of "whiteness", but they were labeled as "minor races". And on the other hand, several houses of southern european high nobility had african lines in their family trees, that would have led to a pretty bad treatment in the U.S., according to the one drop rule. But in Europe they were highly respected and proud of that ancestry. So I'd recommend to be careful, when analyzing and explaining antisemitism and racism exclusively through the american lense.

[@euromayan]

Very informative and interesting piece. Recently I've read that female ashkenazi jews had prominent european origin,even if the appearance after many generations became like their fathers, meaning that white women married jewish men for many generations. Caucasian is used in the USA exclusively to mean pale complexion, but scientifically it includes Semitic people (jews and arabs) as well as people from India, Pakistan, bangladesh, and sri lanka, many of whom have near black skin... Black skinned Caucasians?

[@dickhardpicard]

Yep human origins by dna can be traced to Africa..so the first people to leave Africa were dark skinned. They got lighter over time living in colder climates with less sunlight

[@malachi405]

Yemeni Jews can be very dark skinned, but their facial features are clearly Middle Eastern, not African.

[@dickhardpicard]

@@malachi405 Af·ro-A·si·at·ic /ˌafrōˌāZHēˈadik/ adjective relating to or denoting a family in the Middle East and North Africa. The family is commonly divided into five groups: Semitic, Omotic, Berber, Cushitic, and Chadic. Ancient Egyptian was also a member of this family.

[@DustinLaGriza]

"Caucasian" was a term that Johann Blumenbach used when he categorized people into five groups and though the best looking white people were from the land of Joseph Stalin. It's pure pseudo-scientific bunk but 19th century racists liked it because it sounded more scientific--and hence "factual"--than using the term "white". It was used in law and there's even a Supreme Court case US v Thind, that found that while an Indian was "Caucasian" he wasn't the right kind of Caucasian (even though he argued in his case that he knew how to be racist against non-Caucasian Indians, in the end it didn't make a difference.)

[@gametmane1093]

There is no scientific definition of "Caucasian". Race isnt a scientific concept. PERIOD

[@theclassroomdoc]

23andMe says Askanazi Jews are very genetically more similar to people in the middle east then Europeans even though their immediate ancestors may be European.

[@Mountainman6715]

Bullshit

[@turnleft8645]

I looked this up, and apparently it stated that after tests were done, "Genetic studies of Ashkenazi Jews reveal around a 50/50 mix of Levantine (Middle-Eastern) and Southern European (mostly Italian) genes."

[@FireLord-se6dt]

Genetically Ashkenazi Jews are closest related to South Italians, Greeks, and Sephardic Jews.

[@walterbenjamin1386]

According to 23&Me I am 99% Ashkenazi and 100% European. Don't underestimate the "Jews killed Christ" for the scourge of antisemitism.

[@bazbuco]

@@Mountainman6715 Bro, assuming your last name is Mulholland, an Irish name, imagine if I said "Irish people aren't real, it's all just bullshit" see how fucking dumb that sounds? That's what you sound like.

[@mspaint93]

These 'newest' comments are painful as anything. Nationality, ethnicity, faith, and race, are all separate categories, that inately become muddled as humans. You guys would be good to have a geneticist on your channel to discuss the Askenazi Y gen.

[@artwerksDallas]

My grandparents moved from Texas to Northwest Arkansas. Yep the home of Walmart and Tyson chicken. In 1937 they had a cross burned in their front yard for being Catholic while living in an all Italian immigrant town. Yes it was put there by the Klan. Today my cousin, Italian heritage, has an ex-husband who was a full pledged member of the kkk. I f8nd it interesting that she shares many of his beliefs on the Jewish world

[@diablohorer]

For anyone that doesn't wanna waste 10 minutes and 10 seconds of their lives for no reason let me summarize this "question" in one and a half sentences: Jews are not white, they were originally middle eastern, then they had a diaspora, now they're every color, the end.

[@steveweiss7191]

My name "Weiss"means white in German. Most Weisses are connected to Judaism, but not all.

[@7x779]

What about gruenewald

[@frillylily8005]

Ironically most who say they are Jewish are of Sephardic/ashkenazi heritage wich is a bit more European but Sephardic have more North African dna I believe.

[@yjshine6961]

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I’ve been desperately trying to find other Jews who share this perspective and I’m so so glad for a video that explains this topic in great depth! I hope one this can be incorporated in society in order to bring people together and stop the divide that prevents peace. Thanks again! ❤

[@FirstSpeak]

majority of jews who are close to their jewish heritage in some level share this thoughts.

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@FirstSpeak This is why I given up on being jewish. I think it's time to end labels.

[@gloryakiepper7918]

To give up on being Jewish because you don't like labels is incredulous to me. To deny your Jewish heritage allows anti-semites to take over. Whether you give up or not non-jews will always consider you a Jew.

[@deeznutz8320]

​@@gloryakiepper7918 Who cares your peoples anti White hatred has created the atmosphere in the first place

[@urielm774]

Desperately? That's a reach

[@deborahfreedman333]

My parents always tried to pass as white. We were told to tell people who asked what our religion was, that we were Methodists. Which was weird, as that church was across the street from our house, yet we never went to it. We might have pulled it off, if my parents hadn't insisted on speaking Yiddish to each other. My mom blamed our exposure on my kinky hair, not the Yiddish. Still, when it came out, we were kicked out of the town's only country club.

[@saraleigh5336]

(I assume you know that joke?)

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

That's a pretty funny tale!

[@Lagolop]

"Kinky hair"; talk about a fucking stereotype and coming from a Jew (if you really are one). I am Ashkenazi; I have relish blind hair, lily white skin and blue eyes ... just saying.

[@amyt2400]

@deborahfreedman333 That must’ve been rough. Obviously your Mom was uncomfortable with her Jewishness. I hope you check out a Chabad House and reclaim your Jewish pride. Much love. 💙

[@Lagolop]

What a stupid story that sounds like a non Jew made it up. I'm Jewish and have 100% straight reddish blond hair (and I am a guy). Stereotypes are just that and it's offensive to have a person posing as an actual Jew tell it.

[@MarekUtd]

I can't take anyone seriously if they are using the word "Whiteness" when talking about race.

[@lexs3684]

You could ask them if they identify as Caucasian for background, then ask for their culture?

[@marcusthomas3632]

Europeans are the ones that penned all of this madness. Don't act as if you're shocked. This is their nasty work. Remember that.

[@mrorange3490]

So, ancestry says I’m 5% Jewish from Israel. Does that make me a Jew?

[@MUHAMMEDYASEEN-bp4gk]

no

[@saltymermaid439]

YES!

[@saltymermaid439]

​@MUHAMMEDYASEEN-bp4gk Yes it does! 😅

[@tagbarzeev8283]

If your mother was Jewish than you would be Jewish.

[@SXM.416]

no you Jew-ishhhh

[@nancytoulouse6973]

Good and informing presentation, Sir. I learned a lot here. Having good understanding is crucial if we are to solve prejudices, so thank you for all your hard work here, Sur🌹🌿🌷So Jews have been singled out only because they're Jews? I am so sorry for any and all acts of prejudice committed against jews. Jews have contributed so much good to humanity and I have no doubt that there are a lot of good people who are Jewish, and (at the same time) it may be for more than just one reason why they were singled out. I'd love to open up the conversation with you on that, like are some Jews prejudice against gentiles (just because they're gentiles)? And has there ever been a boss (who happened to be Jewish) who was less than fair to his workers? If so, has this happened more than once (so, have gentiles ever suffered at the hands of Jews? If so, did it ever happen more than once in history)? And can we talk about the casualties of WWII that were of different races or nationalities (not Jewish)? Do Jews feel so bad for them too? I don't doubt that white supremacists exist, and it's atrocious that it exists 😞😡 but are there other groups out there too who have ever behaved like supremacists also? If so, who? Have Jews ever partaken in such attitudes against other groups? If so, it's not about the person who's doing the wrong, it's the act and attitude (thinking and upbringing) that is wrong- no matter whose doing the wrong. Don't you think? So, it's not a race thing- it's an attitude and way of thinking that's wrong. Don't you think?

[@Nancy-mi3xe]

There are good and bad people of every race and religion.

[@suereed3474]

I think groups use racism marking as a way to give themselves an advantage in competition for jobs and rights. But white Christians have a history of being particularly good at it. So the act is heinous from any point of view, but those most guilty are White Christians.

[@jasonplatt2228]

These are separate issues. As the reply by @Nancy-mi3xe states, there are people who behave poorly and those who behave well in every race and religion. What is also true, is that many people target or/and discriminate against others who are "different" from them--who aren't from the same race, ethnicity, or/and creed as they are. This latter issue is what the video is about. This type of discrimination DOES exist and is a major problem in society. For a while, it was more hidden after the end of World War II but has now been more up front due to Donald Trump enabling this type of hatred with his harmful rhetoric. And while I wasn't alive at the time, my late mother was and told me how the popular singer Kate Smith (known today mostly for her rendition of God Bless America) spoke out against Father Coughlin's divisive radio diatribes as mentioned in the video. Father Coughlin lost a lot of his popularity after that because Kate Smith was very popular and respected and a fellow Catholic. Kate Smith did a tremendous service to the country with that and it should not be forgotten.

[@nancytoulouse6973]

@@jasonplatt2228 thank you for your reply, sir. Yes! I've seen it with my own eyes how Jews can be the object of prejudice - good people being thought badly of just because they were Jews, so I understand 😔 it's a shame and shouldn't be. It's hard to educate ignorant people to think differently 😔. Where is this jargon or speech that re kindled more ignorant prejudice?

[@mamabear71234]

look at the way white people are being treated. nobody is apologizing for that. it's hypocrisy.

[@lakshmankarunaratne3541]

Thank you for your wonderful explanation. ❤

[@willlovehavelove4703]

Fact 1# Everyone on earth comes from non- disease mutated gene humic parents i.e. so-called ruddy blacks. Fact 2# Only Black men and women have the oldest human genes on earth and were Adam and eve. Fact 3# White European skin is produced by a disease mutated non-human gene. Fact 4# Adam and eve would have to be infected with a disease, in order to produce a mutant white skin child with blue eyes. Fact 5# In order for a Human being to be born, a modern-day Ashkenazi the human will have to be infected, with a non-human diseased gene, a mutation, white European skin. Fact 6# the Holy Bible indicates in 2Kings 5:27 that white European skin is an auto immune disease produced from a Biblical white skin curse, because of sin. Fact 7# To say that the 12 tribe of Israel, the savior's body is an auto immune disease sin, curse, of white Europeans that are known to carry a wet dog smell is Blasphemy....

[@andreeaalexandru7811]

What on earth is happening to the people? What was wonderful about this "explanation".

[@jdubruyn]

@@andreeaalexandru7811 I think its terrible.(Lol) Not all white people are the same just like not all people of any race are the same and labeling white ethnicity and race as white supremacy is simply reverse racism. Basically narcissism if you ask me. The things people will do for attention and money...

[@chemicalfrankie1030]

now re-do this video after Oct 7th, thanks

[@elainegoad9777]

Many Ashkenazi Jews ( religious and secular) consider themselves white, when asked (especially the rich and famous)

[@youtubefans510]

just because people consider themselves to be white because of their skin colour or general appearance does not mean they are white gender and race a social construct ? and I think I am an alien born on earth ? no , jews are middle eastern, skin colour alone does not define race , it is dna, facial features etc. and there are different white races, germanic , celtic , slavic etc. , that is a scientific fact, I should know , I am scottish from my mother's side living in Holland , I see the differences

[@chrisar6068]

Are greeks, Spanish and Italian white? Austrian, German and Swedish. Are Greeks in Egypt? Sounds like I need to go to the paint shop so I can work out what my friends and i are. Or maybe i don't give a toss. Maybe trying to label people into a category, is too simple, it is only for people with a problem.

[@Flash-Man816]

White people are people of European descent.

[@gward117]

We'd all like to believe in those thoughts but those with the 💵 already gave every other "OTHER" a color other than "white". We are not the problem but have been made to think "other" is the problem. The 💵 holders have made the rules the world over to fit their needs which is more 💵!

[@chrisar6068]

@@gward117 if you get a job you too will have dollars. Or go back to North Korea.

[@saraleigh5336]

When one is a member of one of the tiniest minorities in existence and is only described by what a group considers undesirable, then these things become an issue.

[@youtubefans510]

no, there has been mixing , greeks spanish or italian may individually be white or not , gender and race a social construct ? and I think I am an alien born on earth ? no , jews are middle eastern, skin colour alone does not define race , it is dna, facial features etc. and there are different white races, germanic , celtic , slavic etc. , that is a scientific fact, I should know , I am scottish from my mother's side living in Holland , I see the differences

[@JGLy22086]

I am Irish! I have always thought there were three colors as far as race goes, white, yellow, and black, and I really don’t care which is which. People make a mistake thinking any one color is better than the others! There are too many shades of any each and none is better than any other. What difference does it make? We are all human and we should act like humans instead of acting like we’re something different.

[@MadMatTom7769]

Tell that to Israeli people.

[@IGuess...]

White privilege wrote this comment. You "really don't care which is which" because white skin gives you the privilege NOT to care. See how that works? 🙄

[@toaster2428]

It is very hard for Irish people too identify as white through what they have been through

[@MadMatTom7769]

@@toaster2428 What..?

[@uncannytheos2454]

Hm see that way of thinking doesn't work when white people are the only ones who have the luxury to ever believe that bs bubble of a reality. The rest of us have lived an experienced for centuries an more of the dehumanizing of anyone who isn't of white skin tone. An let me tell you now that you all who are the so called privileged call remind us at the bottom that every day with your world's, actions an disingenuous masks you all wear to lie to everyone else an to yourself.

[@thedreamsoldierful]

Even alot of asians have white skin but Europeans had to go & say their skin is yellow

[@yuvarajvelmuruganmudaliyar]

Boyd’s Classification: In 1958, Boyd modified Wiener’s classification and proposed six groups comprising thirteen races as follows: i) European Group - (1) Early European (2) Lapps (3) North-west Europeans, (4) Eastern and Central Europeans, and (5) Mediterraneans. ii) African Group - (6) The African races, excluding inhabitants of North Africa, which belong to European group. iii) Asian Group - (7) The Asian races (8) Indo-Dravidian(South Indian). iv) American Group - (9) American Natives 60 Biological Diversity. v) Pacific Group - (10) Indonesian race, (11) Melanesian race and (12) Polynesian race. vi) Australian Group - (13) Australian aborigines.

[@deborah393]

This is why I don't use the term "white" (and not just in relation to light-skinned Jews) - I use the term "white-passing." I am white-passing. My grandfather and uncle were definitely not.

[@hultonclint]

If you pass as White, guess what?... You're White. These social (note: social, not individual or personal) constructs are about how "society" (meaning most people around) see you and categorize you. It's not your 23andMe test or a story grandma told you or what you cooked for dinner last night. You don't have to "identify with" it and probably shouldn't, but if most people identify you as such, meaning you have passed into that category, then you're that category because you're not in another category.

[@Lagolop]

Ridiculous, "white passing" is a term applied to black people that are light skinned and want to pass as white people. Doesn't usually work because moist time they have black facial features and hair. Sometime its does work though. I have never heard of a Jewish person "passing" because there is no need to pass. For the most part Jews are simply white. Unless you go to Israel, most Jews in Europe and North America are Ashkenazi Jews.

[@LongNoseBreaker]

Jews are inbrdshidskins

[@ed.z.]

An accurate picture of history. But, are you dispelling misconceptions and hate, or giving haters more ammunition to amplify more hatred? I believe it’s the former. I just want more amplification of why we must love each other. “You can say I’m a dreamer. But, I know I’m not the only one.”

[@richardsteinberg9696]

It is ironic that you quote John Lennon’s song, “Imagine”. Talented as he was as a musician, Lennon was antisemitic.

[@ed.z.]

@@richardsteinberg9696 can you please point me toward the source of John Lennon being antisemitic? Thanks.

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@ed.z. He said imagine if there were no countries or religion. Clearly this would include the Jews.

[@ed.z.]

@@tuckerbugeater it’s a dream, buddy. In reality being in a tribe seems like today’s reality…As a matter for survival. Working towards a dream seems like a worthy pursuit, even though it’s a luxury, it’s the difference between progress and stagnation. The balance between pragmatism and idealism is what we live with in order to survive our flawed economic system.

[@laurieberry4814]

The part where I mentioned that I am part Irish was deleted. That is anti-Irish.

[@secondexodus9105]

The Bible does contain descriptions of the physical appearances of various ancient peoples, including the Israelites, Cushites, and Egyptians. However, it is important to approach these descriptions with caution and recognize the limitations and complexities of interpreting them. In the Bible, there are references to the Cushites, who are often associated with regions in modern-day Ethiopia or Sudan. Cushites are described in various ways, but it is crucial to note that these descriptions primarily refer to their geographic location and cultural context rather than their physical appearance. Regarding the Israelites and Egyptians, the Bible does not provide explicit and comprehensive physical descriptions of these peoples as a whole. It is worth noting that both the Israelites and Egyptians were diverse populations, and their physical features would have varied among individuals and over time. The biblical texts primarily focus on theological, historical, and cultural aspects, rather than providing detailed physical descriptions of people. Consequently, relying solely on the Bible for precise physical descriptions may be challenging. It is important to approach biblical texts with a balanced understanding, considering the literary and theological purposes of the authors and the historical context in which the texts were written. Additionally, when studying ancient populations and their physical appearances, scholars draw from a combination of archaeological evidence, historical records, and genetic research to gain a more comprehensive understanding. In summary, while the Bible does contain some references to the physical appearances of various ancient peoples, interpreting these descriptions requires careful consideration and should be supplemented with other sources to form a more accurate understanding of the diverse populations of that time.

[@Lagolop]

King David himself was often described as fair skinned, red headed and blue eyed .... we don't necessarily get our looks from Euro admixture.

[@ShalemAhava]

@@Lagolop if you look up ruddy it actually appears brownish-red

[@Lagolop]

@@ShalemAhava Rudd cheeks are RED/ROSY. No mention of brown ....lol. Ruddy Def: "Ruddy is used to describe something that is reddish - like the color of red hair, tomatoes, or a friend's cheeks on a cold winter's day. Ruddy is commonly used to describe someone's complexion. In this case, it describes a healthy, reddish glow. If you're normally pale, your skin might have a ruddy tone from working outside. You may hear someone use ruddy as a negative adjective, as well. In Britain it is a substitute for words like bloody or darn: "The ruddy door is stuck again. I'm going to take an axe to it!""

[@shainazion4073]

@@ShalemAhava Solomon his son is described as *_"white and ruddy", with "cheeks as a bed of spices" (ruddy, rosy cheeks), "washed with milk", and "a body of polished ivory Overlaid with sapphires"_* meaning that his skin was so translucent that you saw the blue veins (sapphires) showing through it. Noah is described as born *_"bright white with white long hair and blue eyes._* and Abraham's Sarah is described as *_"white and lovely", with "white full breasts and white shapely thighs."_* There is no place the Israelites are described as brown, or black!!

[@annakelsch5469]

What Bible did you read to get such descriptions? I’d love to know more. The KJV doesn’t have that much detail.

[@pb-kf1hk]

this was a really interesting video! i enjoyed watching it! it was very nice to learn more about my people's history.

[@JesusChrist-zj7xw]

Too bad it's a lie. You should look into the genetic ancestry and origins of semites from Yamnayan Culture 13k years ago. Genetics don't lie. People do for political and religious reasons. Sorry but we're very cousins.

[@electricearth1101]

do jews have white skin? yes. are white people called white because they have white skin? yes.

[@willlovehavelove4703]

Fact 1# Everyone on earth comes from non- disease mutated gene humic parents i.e. so-called ruddy blacks. Fact 2# Only Black men and women have the oldest human genes on earth and were Adam and eve. Fact 3# White European skin is produced by a disease mutated non-human gene. Fact 4# Adam and eve would have to be infected with a disease, in order to produce a mutant white skin child with blue eyes. Fact 5# In order for a Human being to be born, a modern-day Ashkenazi the human will have to be infected, with a non-human diseased gene, a mutation, white European skin. Fact 6# the Holy Bible indicates in 2Kings 5:27 that white European skin is an auto immune disease produced from a Biblical white skin curse, because of sin. Fact 7# To say that the 12 tribe of Israel, the savior's body is an auto immune disease sin, curse, of white Europeans that are known to carry a wet dog smell is Blasphemy....

[@hanjaeyoon906]

Dude I used to have whiter skin than my white friends...

[@rollinghippo2940]

u mean 'white' american? because white americans are just brown 'white people'

[@angelusportillus8973]

When we're concerned, even obsessed, about our skin color, ethnicity, religion, geographical this and that, we lose focus that we're all human. It's petty to be absorbed on what we see on the outside, we lose the wonderful opportunity to discover what we're like on the inside. Morgan Freeman was right.

[@johndemeritt3460]

I thought that, for as short a presentation as it was, this piece did a pretty good job of presenting part of the history of the social construction of race and how Jews fit into social constructions of race, ethnicity and religion in America. But the intersectionality of these concepts is difficult to disentangle. In many respects, it diminishes the magnitude of the problem if you do try untangling these different social constructs. I haven't looked over this channel much yet, but I'm curious if you've had a sociologist on to discuss the concept of social constructionism and how different social constructions interact. I'm sure there are a number of Jewish sociologists out there who could help people understand the importance of social constructs and how social constructs change over time. My interest in this is both personal and professional. I've been married to a Jewish woman for nearly forty years now, and with social and political tensions in this country just now, we're considering where we might go should civil unrest turn into civil war. On the professional side, I spent 12 years working on a PhD in Sociology, with my minor focus on sociology of religion. Because narcolepsy caught up with me and made it increasingly difficult to concentrate, I ended up with a MA in Sociology. Seeing the contrast between Judaism and Christianity here in America has helped me immeasurably in understanding the many ways religion affects the choices we make that shape our futures.

[@Historian212]

Important points. Please be clear that Jewishness is not just about religion; Jews are a people, and the traditions of the Jews include Jewish ways of worship. When someone converts to "Judaism" (a term invented by Christians), they are not just taking on a religion. They're being adopted into the Jewish people. Just as some indigenous tribal peoples welcome newcomers into their tribe, and in the midst, the adoptees take on the rites and observances of the tribe, among other cultural practices, so it is with the Jewish people.

[@johndemeritt3460]

@@Historian212, please accept my apologies if I didn't make myself clear. I understand Jews as an ethnic group, a religious group and, in the eyes of some, a racial group as well. To be completely clear, we should distinguish between Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and other ethnicities among Jews, because their practices aren't all the same. But the intersectionality between religion, ethnicity and other social strata make it difficult for outsiders -- particularly those raised in societies that have a dominant religious group that tries to bring everyone to a singular agreement about the meaning of scriptures and acceptable behaviors within the group and toward outsiders -- is difficult to disentangle. And Christianity is particularly apt to try to untangle what is so tightly integrated as Jewish people are with their religion and ethnic practices. Another way of looking at this is that where, in my experience, Jews focus more on belonging and behavior, Christians focus on belief. As a result, Christians try to force the Bible to provide a singular answer about what to BELIEVE that is supposed to apply to all Christians everywhere and everywhen. Jews have Talmud. Two of them, if I recall correctly. And neither the Bible nor Talmud are interested in belief so much as behavior . . . with LOTS of room for variation across place, time, and the larger society within which Jewish communities exist.

[@kdogwal581]

You cannot untangle social constructs because they are not real, they are figment of people’s imagination. Used to further political/social objectives. Depending on who you ask will determine what social construct is and isn’t. Just because a few individuals come together to argue what is considered a social construct does not make it real. For example, we can all believe the Earth is flat, however through rational observations of reality this is not the case. Why because reality dictates truth, not the interpretation of human beings. Knowledge, is derived from reality not human interaction. This is why social constructionism is wrong, and every time it is implemented we are left with distorted views not reflective of the natural world. That is why essentialism is important, where knowledge is derived from scientific research. Why do we have different ethnic groups? Because on genetic level there is clear distinction, through testable observation, of a groups DNA that, shows distinction. This also applies to the religious question, Judaism is a religion with different ethnic subsets which is backed by genetic data.

[@johndemeritt3460]

@@kdogwal581, in a sense, you're correct about social constructs: they don't represent physical reality. But there's a lot you've gotten wrong about social constructs and social constructionism. The incorrect thing is that social constructs are "figments of people's imagination . . . used to further political/social objectives." Social constructs are actually about beliefs people hold in common that affect human behavior. Social construction is the result of a group of people learning how the human social world works. Social Constructionism creates a (usually) unspoken consensus among members of a community that certain things are true and that those things are universally accepted. It's likely that, if you're an American, you didn't consciously learn that America is unique among all the nations of the world: you heard people talk about problems in other countries and that people in those countries are not as good as Americans in some way. You probably took that for granted -- until you met people from other countries and came to see them as who they are. That's the social construct of American Exceptionalism. Another example of a social construct is the idea of mobile phones. Mobile phones DO actually exist: that reality is hard to deny. But the mutually constructed social reality of mobile phones is that everybody has mobile phones and use them the same ways. It's gotten to the point that a number of people and organizations assume you have a mobile phone. I have, myself, run into businesses that don't even offer the option to submit information on paper: you HAVE to have a mobile phone to do business with them. I don't have a mobile phone. Don't want one, either. I get along well without one. From a slightly different perspective, you wrote, "Knowledge, is derived from reality not human interaction." I'll agree to that -- to one extent. But there are two codicils I have to add. First, how we come to agreement about what is real IS a result of human interaction. You and I seem to agree that belief in a flat Earth is not rational and does not accord with physical reality. But flat Earthers seem genuinely convinced that the physical evidence is better explained through the lens of a flat Earth than through a spherical Earth that has gravity and an atmosphere that gradually tapers off in pressure and density until it becomes so thin that it is virtually non-existent. Second, the Scientific Method itself IS a social construct. Granted, it is accepted nearly universally among scientists, but it isn't accepted as universally among people who AREN'T scientists. This exemplifies the difference between EXPERT knowledge and EVERYDAY knowledge. And it's why most of us accept scientific knowledge over everyday knowledge. But different groups of people have different ideas of everyday knowledge. When I lived in Texas, I knew that I-35 would get stupid at the drop of a hat -- and I was always AMAZED at how often people dropped their hats! In Texas, the "everyday" knowledge was that a little extra speed on the freeway wasn't a problem -- despite the fact that people routinely drove 20 miles per hour or more over the speed limit. I now live in Alabama, and people usually drive 10 to 20 mph over the limit: but lanes seem to be suggestions here. I routinely see people waver across the stripes designating lanes without seeming to care about other peoples' presence (maybe it's a result of people using mobile phones indiscriminately). As for ethnic groups . . . ethnic groups are NOT genetic in nature. Ethnicity is a matter of people united by social constructs, like religion, and anthropological realities, like language. The genetic aspect of a community comes as a result of the social realties, not the other way around. If, after all this, you have questions about social construction, I'll be glad to try and answer them.

[@ofdrumsandchords]

According to Shlomo Sand, teacher of history in Tel-Aviv university there is no such thing as a Jewish people. You can't tell if a person is Jewish from her DNA.

[@macnosmutano4849]

Wow, what a great video! I love how this channel really goes in depth and really gives solid answers to complicated questions.

[@BORN-to-Run]

It's no more complicated than the question, Are African Americans Black?

[@soulseeker970]

The Jews in the most powerful positions are white people just like whites in any religion

[@dcanaday]

Wow! I never realized how much white people suck. How should we punish them?

[@memphisjuju3361]

@@BORN-to-Runno, the Africans that are in African are descendents of Ham, the so called African Americans here in the Americas that came here during the transatlantic slave trade are descendents of Shem. Us So called African Americans here in America are the true Jews. Yes we have dark skin but we are not Hamites or what u would call African. We are originally from Jerusalem. We fled to west Africa due to famine in the land. And from there we got captured buy the Africans/Hamites and put on slave ships for the Europeans and brought to the Americas for slavery

[@PatrickFitzgerald88]

@@BORN-to-Run No they're mixed-race.

[@compoundwa]

My personal experience is that no matter where I go, every group, large and small, is looking to separate "them" from "us" as a source of identity and privilege.

[@Zojooh]

Hebrew is literally Afro-asiatic. Please explain, how any other can be Jews by blood?

[@youtubefans510]

gender and race a social construct ? and I think I am an alien born on earth ? no , middle eastern, skin colour alone does not define race , it is dna, facial features etc. and there are different white races, germanic , celtic , slavic etc. , that is a scientific fact, I should know , I am scottish from my mother's side living in Holland , I see the differences

[@ScoobySnacksYum]

@@youtubefans510 No. There is no such scientific fact that there are different races. Read a damn book. Humans are humans. There are only minor variations that are based on environmental adaptations and regional development. Anyone who's looked at human migration knows that there is great admixture in human populations. Hell, most non-Africans have some Neanderthal ancestry. Seriously, when you start talking about a Germanic race, then you're spewing garbage Nazi race science that has been thoroughly debunked. You need to look at the latest DNA studies that show human migration through Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA.

[@beusda]

They are all just delusional we can sit back and be entertained by the idiocy.

[@InsertYTHandleHere]

​​@@ScoobySnacksYum brother, you do realize that even if such science actually existed, it would never be disclosed to the public by the establishment(because history and moustache man). I'm against racism, and I'm equally against bringing politics into science. And anyways, y'all use the term "First-World Country" as to show your caucasian dominance over the world lately. Races clearly have a difference in behaviour and looks, and does not make any one of those better or worse than the other. We are all humans, and we deserve to be treated like humans, irrespective of race. But yes, racial differences do exist(perhaps even scientifically).

[@clydekaila25]

This is such good content! 💯👏🏾

[@idagoeckel1835]

I like this presentation and almost never identify myself as white on demographic surveys. And while I am just 81% Ashkenazi Jewish as per my DNA results, I was raised in a Jewish faith and culture. I consider whiteness as a synonymn for being Caucasian. I am primarily Semitic, which is a race unto itself for both Jews and Arabs alike. I am disturbed by Jewish assimilation to "belong" and have not ever hidden or denied my Jewish heritage.

[@Long-Ball-Larry]

The term Caucasian to me is confusing and only used like that in the US, it seems. Actual Caucasians from the Caucasus hardly fit into what is socially accepted/thought of as "white". While I agree that Ashkenazim are not "white European" (even though they've got a good chunk of Northern/Southern Italian DNA in the diaspora) genetic studies show that ancient Canaanites (which the Israelites/Jews were part of) were a mix of local populations and migrants from the *Caucasus* . Semitic is a linguistic term and was appropriated by *white* *European* "race scientists" (who used Noah's son's geneology in the Bible to define races). Semitic is *not* a race (however you want to define that anyway). Jews are indigenous to Judea/Israel and are a Mediterranean/Levantine people.

[@lizbethartemis4886]

Caucasian Jews resided in the Caucasus - mountain Jews.

[@shainazion4073]

@@lizbethartemis4886 The Canaanites, who the Israelites come out of had Caucasus and Zagros mountain DNA.

[@RawPower867]

@@Long-Ball-Larry Admixture is largely irrelevant to ethnic origin, especially if it's the byproduct of colonization. Native Americans and non-Jewish Levantines also have a substantial chunk of European DNA but no one calls them white.

[@Long-Ball-Larry]

@@shainazion4073 What I always wondered/wanted to ask you: Is "Shaina" Yiddish like "schön" (beautiful) in German? And it is it given as a (male/female?) first name?

[@pampool4411]

I fail to comprehend the term whiteness. Is it that it means not fully white, or having some kind of white tint?

[@thedude9941]

It means to be in a status of white privilege, and to uphold the standard of white privilege. And you can have white skin but not uphold whiteness, for example if a white looking person from Syria or Jordan, comes to America but still is not ashamed to express their culture they wouldn't exhibit whiteness.

[@youtubefans510]

gender and race a social construct ? and I think I am an alien born on earth ? no , jews are middle eastern, skin colour alone does not define race , it is dna, facial features etc. and there are different white races, germanic , celtic , slavic etc. , that is a scientific fact, I should know , I am scottish from my mother's side living in Holland , I see the differences

[@SWExplore]

Does it really matter what the color of one's skin is?

[@veganath]

Exactly, skin pigmentation ONLY inform one thing the colour of one's skin & only for those with eyes to see....

[@Flash-Man816]

I’m just curious like how did nazis differ Jews from like Germans. The Jews looked like Germans.

[@Neurozumim]

Oh my god this documentary is so damaging. The notion of whiteness is west european. In east europe, ashkenazis were considered apart but it wasn’t a question of skin tone. Nazis killed nearly as much non-military and non-jew slavic people. They had to look under panties to know if someone was jews. Nazis were using terms like aryan and germanic, they weren’t talking “whiteness” as all cultures they hated were pale-skinned. Yes, ashkenazis have pale skin but no, there is no unified european “white people”. Stop it. Slavics were the thrash of europe after jews and romas for the longest time. Not “white”, not colonizer. Ashkenazis colonized more than slavic people and blackfaced in their movies or owned slaves in USA. It’s not all: ashkenazis are saints and all europeans are evil. It’s not simple as that. Many ashkenazis mingled with high society germanic that colonized east europe (long before wwii). Jews were saved by the west during wwii but slavics left to russian dictators.

[@LoneGRoEnt]

Very good point.

[@chrisvoelzow2721]

Shallom! Very powerful speech. Thank you for the insight into the complex issue of "whiteness". As an "Aryan looking" Jew, this speaks volumes into why I have certain emotions in different company. Further, your talking of Jews in African American townships, answered questions of my lineage. I am healthily mixed, according to 23&me and just looking at my relatives. Mazel tov!

[@grasmereguy5116]

So if you are "Aryan" looking, do you mean you look like you are from Iran or India?

[@qmason9242]

Those are t the original Jews they have converted

[@savtamarlene]

@@grasmereguy5116The term aryan is what the Nazis called proper German people who looked like what they deemed the superior race and they allowed to live and thrive while they butchered the Jews who the decided were not. You need to educate yourself before you ask such questions.

[@RM-tj6ju]

The World is onto you now

[@aramisone7198]

The word "aryan" is a proto Iranian word that describes the culture if i remember correctly.

[@drorcohen285]

I'm a Yemenite Jew , but please don't call me an Arab Jew , I asked chatGpt and he told me I'm not an Arab

[@WilliamLi-nd4lz]

This obsession over race is so funny for me as an east asian 😂

[@shreyashpatil6387]

What if ethnic japanese living in china start to take over china in politics , movies , business ownership , etc. Will you be ok with that.

[@Theolaurus_Rex]

Obsession, or simply history and fact check that triggers liars and indoctrinated people?

[@WilliamLi-nd4lz]

@@Theolaurus_Rex are you one of those black Israelites?

[@Theolaurus_Rex]

@@WilliamLi-nd4lz No. I’m man of Hebrew descent, mixed with other blood lines. But more importantly, I READ THE BIBLE. For what it IS. Not for opinions of men.

[@ItsShahed17]

Glad you're not so ignorant as to label yourself as Asian because Asia isn't only East Asia.

[@lajoyalobos2009]

My grandfather's family were German jews that settled in what is today Krasne, Ukraine in the Odesa oblast sometime in the 1800's. Back then, it was known as Konstantinschutz. They'd already converted to Catholicism when they left for the US in the early 1900's, but they'd retained a very German/Jewish surname. I managed to track all of this down, and my grandfather was surprised to find that he was actually Jewish, his family always telling him he was of German blood. In truth, it was very much German and Jewish. His family came to the US speaking German, learned English and quickly assimilated, without looking back. They missed the Holocaust they would've experienced had they gone back to Germany, and I doubt the rural area they lived in once they got to the US cared much about their last name as to point it out to them that it was Jewish.

[@fwblok836]

So what’s your point? You identify as American or as a German American, Jewish American??

[@ortalwendy6356]

Thank you for that 🙏🏻❤️