And the “colorism” thing is so goofy because the color difference are just wildly exaggerated. Like sure, there are differences on average but it’s just not that weird to see darker skinned Ashkenazim OR lighter skinned Mizrachim. I get it, there is more to racialization than color but I feel like
October 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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natürlich hat dieser Klassiker der fascho propaganda (Araber sind Schuld am Holocaust) nicht lang auf sich warten lassen
October 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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It’s yet again about who is controlling the narrative. Israeli discrimination toward Mizrachim, Sephardim, Roma, Ethiopian Jewry, AWA Arabs & Jews in mixed relationships, etc., is extensively documented. Progressive mags pride themselves on non-stop coverage but don’t reach out to these communities.
August 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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So, a version of this is how the Israeli rabbinate dealt with having both ashkenazim and mizrachim living together and being social.
Short version: kitniyot remained forbidden to ashkenazim HOWEVER the rabbis declared that kitniyot did NOT make dishes/utensils into hametz.
Short version: kitniyot remained forbidden to ashkenazim HOWEVER the rabbis declared that kitniyot did NOT make dishes/utensils into hametz.
September 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Probably this PLUS the absolute abominations perpetrated against Jews during the 'farhud' motivated them to leave a society that became ferociously hostile against them. Mizrachim loved Iraq and Iran but their love for life convinced them to leave.
August 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Kann es sein, das du mich für einen Aschkenazim hältst und denkst, ich wäre irgendein Weißer Europäer? Ich bin Sephardim/Mizrachim und meine Vorfahren haben Jahrhunderte lang unter Arabischer Herrschaft gelebt. Wir wollen keine Gewalt gegen Araber, aber wenn uns diese Gewalt antuen, wehren wir uns
March 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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That's so true, and so many people don't have the sense to say, "I don't know." This argument was part of my thesis, and I think it's held up only too well over the years. Splitting off the bulk of the Mizrachim from the Right in Israel will be very, very difficult indeed, if it's even possible.
January 24, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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It was an internal redefinition. And it worked. It wasn’t against Palestinians per se. They were in some sense almost irrelevant.
The linkage between the Right and the Mizrachim and religious was disastrous but also inevitable given post-war Israeli politics. Mishra doesn’t understand this.
The linkage between the Right and the Mizrachim and religious was disastrous but also inevitable given post-war Israeli politics. Mishra doesn’t understand this.
March 24, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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Durch die Shoah müsste es ja heute auch viel mehr von uns Sephardim/Mizrachim geben als Ashkenazim, aber 1.300 Jahre Kolonialisierung und Versklavung bedeuten auch 1.300 Jahre Kolonialverbrechen...
April 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Yeah, the newly arrived Russians didn't help, for sure. The people of Mea Shearim are problematic in any way you can think of. I don't think that 18 year old was so far off base! The problem is, the very snobbery of the Ashkenazi sabras helped drive the Mizrachim even farther to the right.
April 26, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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As an Ashkenazim, it is always easy for you to make a judgement, but it is no longer 1950, but 2024. Let you think about one thing: if everything was so great under Arab rule, why are there, despite the Shoah, fewer Sephardim/Mizrachim in the world than you Ashkenazim
September 16, 2024 at 11:37 PM
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I don’t remember that. I lived in a community in what was known as the Second Israel, which was mostly Mizrachim. There weee also Ethiopians, Romanians, Burmese, Georgians, as well as Moroccans, Tunisians. Algerians, Yemenites. It was quite an education. They were in the main kind and wonderful.
November 18, 2023 at 1:26 AM
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The deep level of outrage we Jewish resisters feel against Netanyahu’s dictatorship is very noticeably dismissed by media & far too many Euro-American progressives. Moreover, the lack of representation of the voices of women, Sephardim & esp Arabic-speaking Arab Jews (Mizrachim), is notable.
August 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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No, I did not, I was born and raised and currently live in the US. Ashkenazim are Jews every bit as much as Mizrachim, there is no debate about this for anybody but antisemites
August 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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It’s still not the point. What Begin pushed was an entire redefinition of what the Israeli state should be-based on Jewish identity, not Labor Zionism. It was a pitch to the Mizrachim, and a total political ploy in Begin’s part to build a new power base. The Palestinians weren’t central here>
March 24, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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Yes, because he gave the Mizrachim a feeling that they counted for something in the state. Before that, the left always treated them as something to be "absorbed" and turned into modern Israelis, aka Ashkenazim. It didn't work. Begin gave them a new way to identify, with consequences we see today.
December 10, 2023 at 7:04 PM
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Ja, ist halt die völlig rassistische "Postkolonial" Bubble, die arabischen Kolonialismus und arabische Kolonialverbrechen leugnen (>"Edle Wilde") und alle Juden, selbst Farbige Sephardim/Mizrachim wie mich oder Beta Israel aus Äthiopien als "Weiß" darstellen.
December 18, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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[Die Bezeichnug für diese Menschen ist Mizrachim]
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrachim
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrachim
October 26, 2023 at 9:04 AM
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3/ Meanwhile, Yiddish is the organic expression of the Ashkenazim, the way that Ladino is the organic expression of the Sephardim, the way Judeo-Arabic is the organic expression of the Mizrachim.
Diaspora languages encode our soul in goles.
Diaspora languages encode our soul in goles.
November 22, 2023 at 3:11 PM
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Ich bin Mizrachim und du verhältst dich nicht sehr jüdisch, wenn du eine Islamistische Terrorgruppe mit Nazi-Wurzel verteidigst und deren Propaganda übernimmst.
June 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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No, I didn't publish it. I've published a few things on Israel but I actually switched fields and have been a science writer for decades. (I didn't see eye to eye with established Israeli anthropologists who didn't agree that the Mizrachim were moving to the right. Too hard to fight that battle.)>
May 4, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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Fast 2.000 Jahre Judenhass und Verfolgung?
Als Sephardim/Mizrachim werfe ich mal das Alhambra Edikt (Taufe oder Tod) der Inquisition (Firmiert heute unter dem Namen "Dikasterium für die Glaubenslehre") von 1492 in den Raum, das erst 1992 abgeschafft wurde.
Als Sephardim/Mizrachim werfe ich mal das Alhambra Edikt (Taufe oder Tod) der Inquisition (Firmiert heute unter dem Namen "Dikasterium für die Glaubenslehre") von 1492 in den Raum, das erst 1992 abgeschafft wurde.
April 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Ok, I think I’ve found the source of our disagreement. You’re saying that because the Ashkenazis believed that the Mizrachim were Jewish as a whole, that their Jewish-ness was never in question and there was never any doubt over what a true Jew was. I’m saying that the dichotomy in and of
April 26, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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There was a politician here from the left, a Mizrachi, Fuad, who wanted to be president here.
And we know they won't let Mizrachim be presidents here.
He wanted announce his running, they told him no, he announced it anyway.
And we know they won't let Mizrachim be presidents here.
He wanted announce his running, they told him no, he announced it anyway.
March 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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If you gave a shit about peace rather than dogma, you'd know that your hated Ashkenazim outnumber Mizrachim on the left and in peace movements at about 3 or 4 to 1. But you want a neat Butleresque colonizer narrative. Mizrachim are far more hawkish, in general.
September 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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