2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders: Obama lost touch with grass-roots movement! [View all]John Poet
(2,510 posts)some people hate African-Americans or Hispanics or LGBTs or Asians or any other racial or religious minority
(and quite a few of the same people hate all of them).
It is true that many Jews having a less distinct racial appearance (appearing white, as you say) may make it more difficult for racists to target Jews in the same way that racists could target African-Americans, as you can't necessarily tell they are Jewish just by looking at them-- but when they find out someone is Jewish, they can still become victims of hate crimes.
It wasn't that long ago that a supposedly modern, supposedly civilized nation (Germany) systematically rounded them up and murdered six million of them. They fear that it could happen again, even in the US, under the wrong conditions.
This is why many of them felt it necessary to re-establish their own state, Israel, so that there would be at least one safe place where this could never happen.