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looktowindward t1_j8xoydx wrote

Reply to comment by SteelMarch in TIL the 'Negro Motorist Green Book' was based on an earlier 'Jewish Vacation Guide' book which outlined places that Jews were not unwelcome to stay in America in 1917. by aripy

If you make the statement that Jewish Americans stepped on African Americans to get them out of the way ... Yes, that's explicitly antisemitic. Collective blame or guilt is always racist, definitionally.

I'm guessing you would be offended deeply if there was some sort of collective guilt assigned to African Americans but you feel free to assign it to Jews. This has led to horrific violence both historically and currently.

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looktowindward t1_j8v2ft9 wrote

Reply to comment by SteelMarch in TIL the 'Negro Motorist Green Book' was based on an earlier 'Jewish Vacation Guide' book which outlined places that Jews were not unwelcome to stay in America in 1917. by aripy

Restrictive covenants predated Levittowns. That William Levitt did this is hardly representative of the views of Jews, most of whom were subject to restrictive covenants and other forms of racial redlining. In my parents subdivision, all the Jews were restricted to one street. In the 1970s. I though it was wonderful that we had Jewish neighbors when I was a kid. I didn't know that it was the only street in the neighborhood that realtors would show to Jews.

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looktowindward t1_j1fvyw0 wrote

Reply to comment by mjg580 in TIL that Vidal Sassoon (his real name) started styling women's hair in wartime London as a teenager, but he took a hiatus at age twenty to join the elite Israeli commando force known as the Palmach. by p38-lightning

No, the opposite. The Palmach were much more closely tied to the British and fought against the Irgun and Stern Gangs in the run up to 1948. Most of the members fought in the British Army in WW2.

That being said, the British were a colonizing occupier in Mandatory Palestine, and hade a habit of arresting Jews to keep the Arab population happy. When that happened, the Palmach took action, but not against civilians.

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looktowindward t1_j1fvqzx wrote

Reply to TIL that Vidal Sassoon (his real name) started styling women's hair in wartime London as a teenager, but he took a hiatus at age twenty to join the elite Israeli commando force known as the Palmach. by p38-lightning

The Sassoon's are a famous family of Jews who sojourned in Baghdad, China, India, and other locals after the Diaspora. Vidal was from a much poorer branch of that huge family who ended up in the UK, some time in the 1800s.

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