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I understand that white supremacy and the history behind it is its own unique dynamic, but so are other forms of racism. There have been numerous ethnic cleansings in Africa that didn't involve white people, the Armenian genocide was perpetrated by non whites, balkanization, the Indian subjugation of kashmiris, the frankly bewildering levels of racism between various Asian ethnic groups, we can keep going but I feel like that is sufficient.
Your characterization of the genocide in Palestine is not only wrong, but also bordering on racist itself in the wildly inaccurate generalizations you make of the Jewish/Hebrew diaspora. We could go into the history of the Hebrew people, because their history as victims of racist, religious, and ethnic violence disproves your entire point. They've been subject to so many genocides and ethnic cleansings throughout their history that our modern conceptions of racist violence are largely informed by their history. White people weren't the only ones subjugating Jews. Judaism predates the existence of whiteness as a concept by millennia, so how exactly am I wrong?
Judaism predates the history of "whiteness", of course, and Zionists are white people who don't believe in the God of Moses and are as Jewish as American megachurch goers who follow supply side Jesus could be considered his followers... If any of them came back and checked what his so called people are doing in their names, they'd have mental breakdowns, lol.
From Sykes-Picot to Netanyahu (actual last name Mileikowsky), it's been nothing but a European colonialist project, and "a land with no people for people without land" only worked because, as usual, these Europeans didn't see the brown locals (Jews, Muslims, Christians...) as people. You can't deny history in earnest, but if you're paid to do so, fair enough.
Being European doesn't necessarily mean you're white. The Irish are European (and the whitest of the bunch if skin color was the only factor) and for the longest time they weren't considered white, and were subject to the same oppression and genocide from the "real whites". Many Jewish people, and many Zionist for that matter, may have European ancestry, but they aren't really considered white. Some might be white passing, but the Jewish diaspora is multi ethnic and largely unified by their religion/family history. Even the ones from a "white" background aren't considered white because they're Jewish first in the minds of those who seek to enact racist violence against them
Hey, oh, guy of vaguely Italian American descent over here!
Yeah, Italians also were not 'really white' untill... what, roughly the 1960s/70s, in the US?