Watch his victory speech for how it gives zero time to the nonsense binary of "idpol" vs "class politics". The stars of that speech are the *multi-ethnic* working class. It's a speech grounded in the rich complexity of material reality, not two dimensional caricatures and facile abstractions.

Screw the people who actually live in Birmingham. Dogwhistle them as irredeemable Islamists and racists. Stoke people like Tommy Robinson and Maccabi ultras to descend on the city and commit acts of violence. This government is the pits.

So which is then? Moral panics (which this is) don't require internal consistency to be effective. Now there's a "ceasefire" this is about trying to drag the Overton window back to a pre-October 7th paradigm where Israeli fascism and racism is hidden behind the figure of the model minority Jew.

So, Israel is a racial state, no group, Jews included, are a race, and so when Zionists claim (and it's almost *always* Zionists) that Jews aren't white, they're right, but for the wrong reasons. End.

At the same time, Israel does also operate according to more familiar racial binaries. It is true that white Israeli Jews have better life outcomes on average than black or brown Jews and that the latter experience discrimination. But *all* of these Jews have better life outcomes than Palestinians.

Israel defends itself from accusations of racism by pointing to its 'multi-racial' character. But Israel is a fully racial state, it just draws its racial categories differently. This can happen because as Cedric Robinson explained, racism is "deadly and slick".

Similarly, Zionist figures such as Arthur Ruppin and Raphael Patai went to great lengths to try and discern a Jewish racial type in the 1930s and 1940s. Despite their efforts, both men resorted to extreme racial slurs and/or stereotypes to describe black and brown Jews - brill.com/display/titl...

One fact that unites Nazis and pre-state Zionists? Both were confounded by the existence of black & brown Jews. Persian Jews living in France during WW2 were exempted from the death camps based on appeals to their racial difference from 'real' Jews - encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...