“Black Jews, White Jews”: Jewish Museum asks highly topical question

What skin color do Jews have? Asking this question, after all the crimes against humanity caused by racism and anti-Semitism over the centuries, may seem disturbing at first glance. Even more so when the question is asked by a museum whose mission is to combat such ideologies. But there is a reason why it is important that it is asked: In postcolonial discourse, the topic of skin color is, with some justification, addressed primarily to white people in the Global North under the slogan “white privilege”. But whenever there is a new escalation in the conflict over Israel and Palestine, protesters also apply it to Jewish people in Israel.