“White” is a short hand for European people, just like “black”is a shorthand for Aftican people. There are extremely dark skinned people from Southern India: no one would say they are “black” because they are not African.
The Jews are a Middle Eastern tribe, like the Arabs. They border Egypt, too.
They aren’t a European people, though they lived in Europe for centuries. Thus they aren’t “white”.
Many north Asians are extremely white. Porcelin white. No one says a very light complexioned Chinese person is “white”.
And who ruled Spain and Portugal for hundreds of years? Who ruled Sicily
and Calabria for 200 years and Greece and the Balkans for 500? Asian and North African Muslims. You don’t think they left their DNA? As for being called black, do some reading in Italian immigration to US. Black was one of the lesser insults directed at us.