WolverinesA2, and Retroit, there's more to it than that. Judaism is indeed a religion, but the Jews are foremost an ethnicity, and secondly, adherents of the Jewish religion. It can be a confusing topic, but if you understand the history, it makes sense.
Originally, the Jews were an ethnic group, a nation, with their own nation-state [[Israel/Judaea), their own language [[Hebrew), and their own culture/religion [[Judaism). Their foremost identity was that of a people- not just of adherents of a religion.
After the Roman-Jewish wars, they lost their nation-state [[which became Roman territory, then Arab, then Crusader, then Turkish, then British, and today is the focus of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict), and due to that and other factors, a slight shift occurred, with the Jews coming to be seen less as a separate nation with their own culture/religion, and more as adherents of a religion. The result is this slightly confusing situation. Adding to the confusion is that anyone of any ethnicity can convert to Judaism, the religion.
Forget about the word "race", because it's incredibly misleading and problematic. But if you think "ethnicity", and consider "racism" to be discrimination based on ethnicity, then, yes, Jews can be the victims of racism. And in reality, it's seemed to me that most people who dislike Jews dislike them more on ethnic grounds than religious ones anyway.
Of course, as was discussed above, today, the Jews aren't even just a singular ethnicity anymore but are really now a collection of mostly related ethnicities [[Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardi Jews, etc), almost all descended from the same original ancient ethnic group but now slightly different.
As for Jesus, yes, he did most likely have the same skin color as most Middle Easterners today, but I wouldn't describe that as "white". The Jews weren't "white", or "black", but more olive-skinned, and would have been clearly distinguishable from northern Europeans.
Lastly, regarding black Jews, some such groups descend from ancient Jews who ended up in Africa and intermixed with ethnic Africans, and other groups were completely ethnic African groups who converted en masse to Judaism. Genetic analysis points to Ethiopian Jews being of the latter case.
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