Comment by bushbaba
2 years ago
To say the west threw them in Israel, forgets to mention the mizrahi Jews who are 50% the Jewish-Israel population and were kicked out/ethnically cleansed from Arab countries.
2 years ago
To say the west threw them in Israel, forgets to mention the mizrahi Jews who are 50% the Jewish-Israel population and were kicked out/ethnically cleansed from Arab countries.
The Mizrahi are also recent settlers in Palestine, coming from surrounding areas like Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, etc. Of course this was all one unified Arab nation under the Ottomans.
Earlier today, I was listening to an interview with a child of early Zionists (he grew up on a Kibbutz in Israel, but now resides in the US, escaping the [his words], "Fascist turn" in Israel) who said that Israelis (referring to the European Ashkenazi Jewish Zionist settlers) were very happy to have the Mizrahi come. They referred to the Mizrahi as, "Jews at Arab wages." Israeli Ashkenazi Zionists were and are very racist; where it would be odd, but arguably correct to call them a brand of white supremacists.
I think you’re referring to the term “Arab labor”?