Okay, I do want to touch on this a little because it is just. one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever read. I would laugh if it wasn’t so incredibly offensive.
First of all, “Israeli Jews” are just Jews that live in Israel or are Israeli citizens. The term does not refer to a nonwhite racial group, especially considering a majority of Israeli citizens are Ashkenazim. What Jen may be referring to here are Mizrahim, members of Jewish ethnic communities descended from the area believed to be modern Israel; if so, this is incredibly hypocritical, because Mizrahim have historically been subjugated by Zionists and the Israeli government:
This is not to say that Mizrahim cannot have Zionist values or that their subjugation in Israel is as severe as that of Palestinians (who, by the way, are descended from the same areas of the middle east as Mizrahim; it’s almost like this isn’t about “reclaiming land” at all, but instead just racism?), but Zionism was founded by Ashkenazim and is still largely upheld by them. The fact that Zionism is upheld primarily by white Jews (as well as being founded on Western colonist ideals) means that no, it is not antisemitic to characterize Zionism as a form of white supremacy. The idea that Zionism is more appealing to nonwhite Jews than it is to Ashkenazim and goyim is so much more than just ignorance, it's revisionism, and I genuinely do not think it is possible that a Palestinian or Mizrahi individual with any meaningful connection to that part of their ethnicity could hold such beliefs.
