(Jewish Group) In Jonah Hill's offensive new movie, a Black-Jewish love story comes with a side of..

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In Jonah Hill’s offensive new movie, a Black-Jewish love story comes with a side of conspiracy theories

Are Jews white? It’s a question that has dominated conversations since the Black Lives Matters protests of 2020. Jews often present as white, and hold economic privilege, yet the recent uptick of antisemitic incidents, whether Kanye West’s months-long outburst or attacks on Hasidic Jews on Brooklyn streets, shows that it’s not quite so simple.

You People, a new slapstick rom-com from Jonah Hill and Kenya Barris, tweaks that big conversation just a little bit. It takes as a given that Jews are white, and asks, instead, whether Jews are actually the worst kind of white people.

Drawing heavily from Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, the new movie follows an interracial couple as they try to make it work between their two families. Ezra (Hill) is a NJB who works in finance, but his real passion is the hip-hop podcast he runs with his best friend, a queer Black woman named Mo. He falls in love with Amira (Lauren London), a Black fashion designer; the two connect over their shared love of street style.

But we don’t actually see much of Ezra and Amira’s love story, which is neatly packaged into a montage early on. Instead, we’re focused on their parents. There’s Akbar, played by Eddie Murphy, Amira’s dad and a Nation of Islam convert; and Shelley, a frenetic Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Ezra’s wealthy, tactless mother.

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I haven't seen it. Anyone?