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MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
2. Israelis are brown
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 03:48 PM
Jun 2016

Hate to break it to you, but the majority of the Jewish population in Israel is Mizrahim (a subgroup of Sephardic Jews), which are the Jewish people that the surrounding Muslim nations ethnically cleansed during the various pogroms starting in 1929 (expulsions from what is now called "Arab East Jerusalem" due to all the Jews being killed or removed there) to mass rounds up and expulsions assisted by the Nazis and ex-Nazis from 1930 into 1950 and continuing into the 1970s.

And ~20% of Israelis are Arab, albeit increasingly Christians Arab due to religious persecution in P.A. controlled areas.

I have no idea where the idea came from that Jewish Israelis are, as a group, distinct-in-skin-color from Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians, or Arabs, but it's nonsense. I suppose it can be excused because most Jewish people in the USA are Ashkenazi, who spent the Diaspora in Europe and thus mixed with Europeans.

But, go ahead, proceed ahead with bigotry.

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