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July 27, 2021

Are Jews White? Should Anyone Care?

Progressive activists insist upon seeing friends and enemies alike through the lens of race, and they’ve located Jews at the top of the white-supremacist pyramid.

As Jews run the entire human gamut in terms of skin-color and physical appearance, the blanket statement that “Jews are white” should be self-evidently absurd. And yet, writes Liel Leibovitz, such a claim can be heard with some regularity in progressive circles. Leibovitz attempts to explain why this should be so:

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July 27, 2021

  1. How Iran and Turkey Spread Their Propaganda to Young Americans

    With the help of U.S. professors.

  2. Are Jews White? Should Anyone Care?

    Progressive activists insist upon seeing friends and enemies alike through the lens of race, and they’ve located Jews at the top of the white-supremacist pyramid.

  3. A Historian Condemns Jewish Philanthropy as an Undemocratic Engine of Capitalism

    While ignoring its greatest achievements.

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