Israel’s European whiteness is a performed but unremarked construct

Evidence

Israel is the only state outside of the European continental land mass to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest, for instance. In this scheme of things, it seems, Israel must be European, presumptively white. But in keeping with contemporary racial americanization, with born again racism, Israel’s whiteness is transparent, virtual, invisible. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 594

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the ‘born again racism’ and racial americanization vocabulary of this book’s earlier chapters, and echoes the reading on Islamophobia and how whiteness operates silently.