I mean that being white is not about skin colour, but security. It means you are protected because you are a member of the majority culture. Protected, that is, from prejudice, discrimination, second-class citizenship, dispossession and genocide. Which Jews – as, perhaps, you’ve guessed I was about to say – have not always been. So what Mear was doing by ignoring that historical truth about Jews – by calling them ‘white’ – was reinforcing his credentials as Fighter for the Oppressed.
