In the United States there exists today, and has existed since at least the 1950s, a dominant political narrative according to which most Americans, indeed the very history of the country, exemplify a kind of ideological “moderateness.” Democratic Party operatives and sympathizers constantly preach the virtues of occupying the political “center,” where most of the
The position of the United States, the UN, the EU, and Russia about what a legitimate Palestinian government would look.
Still, there were horrible instances of antisemitism all through this period ranging from the deadly to the commonplace discrimination and formal and de facto bans at country clubs, universities, and more.
But some radical practitioners of “Jewish whiteness studies” including such Jewish scholars as Michael Paul Rogin, Karen Brodkin, Matthew F. Jacobson, and Eric L. Goldstein have argued quite differently. They suggest that Jewish immigrants and their children embraced “whiteness” as a way of asserting their superiority over other races.