On the end of a minority – Avi Shilon in Haaretz:

‘The interesting shift in the attitude of the American progressive left toward Israel lies in the imposition of a Black-white frame on the conflict. While in Israel people argue heatedly about Likud MK David Amsalem (who recently complained that Israel is being “ruled by 30 percent of the Ashkenazim”) and about Ashkenazi-Mizrahi relations in general, from the progressive-critical viewpoint across the Atlantic, all of us here are privileged whites, compared to the Palestinians.

So much so, that in one of the classes I taught at New York University – about the place of the Holocaust in Israeli society – a student said that the very idea of being preoccupied with the Holocaust is white privilege. Others in the class objected, but that student represents a growing trend. What she said, of course, is a superficial exaggeration, but it’s hard to deny it completely when one looks at the instrumental use Israel makes of the Holocaust and antisemitism in justifying the continuation of the occupation.’

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‘ When Sarah Silverman complained recently to Seth Meyers, on his show, about her plight as a Jew ahead of Christmas, it sounded stale and disconnected, and manifestly less funny than in the past. There are groups today that have bigger troubles, besides which the majority of the Jews have assimilated and belong to the more comfortable middle or upper classes.’

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‘Nonetheless, in Israel today, a majority of the Jews are Middle Eastern in their geographical origins and culture.
Historically, Ashkenazi Jews, too, were perceived as “non-white” in Europe and the United States prior to the Holocaust. But in any case, the fact that the origins of most Israelis lie in Africa or in the Middle East region, is relevant if one intends to compare the conflict to Black-white relations. There is some truth to this comparison, but it also does an injustice to its full understanding.’

Read the article here.

As I said before, for example in this Dutch newspaper, the answer to the question whether Jews are white or not differs from place to place. They might be white in the US, but even in the US not everywhere, they are definitely not white in most of Europe.
And probably there is something wrong with the question. You can always label a certain group white if you compare the group to an even more disadvantaged, marginalized group.

The problem with the Holocaust remembrance culture, to a certain degree much more a German invention than an Israeli one, comes from different sides.
One has to do with Israel and Germany. The remembrance culture has become mainstream and even more than that, it has become a pillar of the state of Germany. For how long remains the question.

It’s good to remember that this remembrance culture not so long ago, in the 60s, was still something that belonged to the counter culture.
I have to admit that avantgarde of that counter culture, the Rote Armee Fraktion, saw Palestinian guerilla groups more as a natural ally than that the group was concerned about the Jewish victims of the Nazi terror.
The avantgarde of the counter culture lost interest in the Holocaust very soon.

Nowadays, there is a tendency to question the remembrance culture because it is seen as a tool of the state of Germany to protect the status quo in Europe and the Middle East. By and large that’s the main argument of A. Dirk Moses.
On the other hand, more than two thirds of young adults in the US don’t know that the Nazis killed 6 million Jews.
See here.

These two developments means that the remembrance culture is crushed in the middle, for some, let’s say many people, there is no remembrance culture at all, they are not aware of it.

For an influential minority the remembrance culture is seen as a perverse strategy of the German (and Israeli) bourgeoisie to protects its interests.