Racial Whitening of Jews in the US hierarchy translated into political influence for Israel

Evidence

Although American Jews had experienced a surge in anti-Semitism during the wave of White nativism in the early 1900s, their racial Whitening within the domestic racial-religious hierarchy granted them membership in America’s newfound Judeo-Christian national identity. This translated into more political influence over time. After 1945, Jewish Americans emerged as a voter base courted by politicians. In 1948, when Israel was created, leaders of the nearly five million second-generation American Jews mobilized to successfully pressure the Truman administration to recognize the state of Israel. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 626

Categorization

• XREF: The racial Whitening of Jews parallels the racial hierarchy arguments Aziz is developing for Muslims (and connects to the broader whiteness-studies literature on immigrant racialization, e.g. Karen Brodkin’s How Jews Became White Folks).
• ADDENDUM: The racial hierarchy shifting to admit Jews reflects the same class/identity/social-positioning dynamics the author analyzes for dress in the immodesty piece — group positioning within the racial-religious hierarchy.