Jews aren't white? I grew up in Miami...and had no idea the Jews I dated were colored people, after all. Gee.
You seem to have misunderstood me. Over half of Israel's Jewish population is Mizrahi, i.e. Middle Eastern.
So, "Middle Eastern" is a race now? Semites, you mean. Southern Europeans are genetically very close to Middle Easterners from centuries of over-lapping ancient nations and trade routes. Are Italians and Greeks, Albanians, Spaniards, the Portuguese and even the Romany also "not white"?
Granted that race is scientifically meaningless, it is nevertheless politically important . So, in Israel today, there are Jews who emigrated from Europe where their families had lived for centuries, and there are the Sephardic Jews who lived in the region all along, for many more centuries. Are the European Jews white, and the Sephardic not?