The move to reclassify Jesus as non-white is good and historically accurate. The erasure at the same time of his Jewishness is neither. It accords in fact with centuries of the Church doing the same. Some might argue that the re-imagining of Jesus as a Brown-skinned Middle Eastern doesn’t exclude his Jewishness. Theoretically, of course, it doesn’t. But the reclaiming of Him* as non-white, in truth, bypasses that, because it has no political impact, no revolution, to reiterate Jesus’s Jewishness.
