Credit: the author; The Forward; The Jewish Agency for Israel; Int’l Christian Embassy Jerusalem

Mizrahi Jews, those from Sephardic and Muslim countries, call Ashkenazi AshenNazis because of discrimination against them.

Schisms among Jews in Israel are as often cultural as well as in religious practice. Jews in Israel come from all over the world and, of course, every culture is different.

Jews in Israel are often separated into four groups: secular or reform Jews, traditional Jews, religious Zionist Jews and ultra-Orthodox. And Kabbalists.

“Eastern” Jews included Yiddishist Ashkenazis from Russia and Eastern Europe but did not include the more cosmopolitan French and German Jews who had assimilated into their countries’ cultures.

Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jews came from Spain and Portugal until they were expelled in 1492, settling in Morocco and Tunisia, in the Ottoman Empire at Salonika (today’s Thessaloniki) and Amsterdam.

Jews during Muslim rule advanced philosophy, science and poetry. They felt superior to Ashkenazis.

Mizrahi Jews are also referred to as Sephardic, though they were settled in the Middle East and North Africa.

Mizrahis spoke Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian, Judaeo-Tat, and Judaeo-Aramaic depending upon where they lived and the languages of their neighbours.

Although they became culturally assimilated in the Arab world, Jews mostly kept to their own communities.

Upon the establishment of Israel in 1948, 900,000 Jews migrated, fled or were expelled from Muslim majority countries. This is sometimes called “the Jewish Nakba”. Many of these exodi were paid for by Jewish Zionist groups. About 650,000 of these Jews settled in Israel.

The most substantial Jewish immigration came from Syria and Yemen, French Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia and Italian Libya in North Africa. Other Jews came from Africa, Iraq, Egypt, Aden, Iran and Turkey.

To facilitate these ‘transfers’, Mossad stepped quietly organised a movement. Mossad agents were sent from Israel to supervise self-“defence”, information and intelligence, illegal emigration, establishing contact and public relations. It was not great PR when Mossad created the Misgeret armed Jewish militia.

It appears that even in Iran, Israel’s nemesis, Jews are treated fairly and are represented. There may well be less antisemitism against Jews in Muslim countries than in the Western world.

The only sentiments whipped up against Jews resulted during every single one of Israel’s wars.  Yes, there were anti-Jewish riots and massacres. However, terrorism rarely targeted Jews.

Many overseas Jews had long histories in other countries, adopted local traditions and were citizens in their land.

Antisemitism is, of course, just one kind of racism. Aren’t there other Jews who are, well, inferior?

According to the Jewish Agency, “The Ethiopian Jewish community is considered one of the most ancient exiles of the Jewish people. They are actually believed to be from the tribe of Dan, exiled by the Babylonians.

“They followed the Blue Nile south, away from Egypt and Yemen, eventually settling in Ethiopia. Heavily persecuted there for centuries, they lived in very rural, mountainous regions.

“They kept strongly to their Jewish faith in a very biblical way, cut off from the rest of the Jewish world. So, they followed more ancient, biblical traditions, not the traditions of the last 2,500 years.”

All that doesn't seem to matter. Ethiopian Jews in Israel face persistent, systemic racism, colour-based discrimination, and high poverty rates, hindering their full integration into Israeli society.

Despite citizenship, they experience disproportionate police brutality, incarceration rates 760% higher than the general population, and segregation in schools.

Ethiopian Israelis face higher levels of police stop-and-search, arrests, and incarceration. In 2019, protests broke out after a police officer killed an unarmed Ethiopian youth, with many in the community citing a pattern of police misconduct.

Ethiopian Jews face high poverty rates, lower education attainment, and significant employment gaps compared to other Jewish groups in Israel.

The religious establishment questioned the Ethiopians’ Jewishness from their arrival. Discrimination has included incidents like the destruction of blood donations due to HIV fears in the 1990s though Ethiopia’s HIV prevalence is lower than USA’s.

Ethiopian children have faced segregation in schools and experiences with racism in the education system.

Black Jews face micro-aggressions and challenges in social integration, often being treated as "outsiders".

The younger generation of Ethiopian Israelis is actively involved in demonstrations against police brutality and discrimination.

Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, have recognized the racism and established committees aimed at reducing discrimination.

Despite efforts, many Black Jews in Israel feel that significant changes in societal perception are still needed to end the inequalities.

One Ethiopian commented: “A promised land for Jews…as long as they’re not Black? Do Black lives matter in Israel?”

3 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Credit: the author; The Forward; The Jewish Agency for Israel; Int’l Christian Embassy Jerusalem

Mizrahi Jews, those from Sephardic and Muslim countries, call Ashkenazi AshenNazis because of discrimination against them.

Schisms among Jews in Israel are as often cultural as well as in religious practice. Jews in Israel come from all over the world and, of course, every culture is different.

Jews in Israel are often separated into four groups: secular or reform Jews, traditional Jews, religious Zionist Jews and ultra-Orthodox. And Kabbalists.

“Eastern” Jews included Yiddishist Ashkenazis from Russia and Eastern Europe but did not include the more cosmopolitan French and German Jews who had assimilated into their countries’ cultures.

Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jews came from Spain and Portugal until they were expelled in 1492, settling in Morocco and Tunisia, in the Ottoman Empire at Salonika (today’s Thessaloniki) and Amsterdam.

Jews during Muslim rule advanced philosophy, science and poetry. They felt superior to Ashkenazis.

Mizrahi Jews are also referred to as Sephardic, though they were settled in the Middle East and North Africa.

Mizrahis spoke Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian, Judaeo-Tat, and Judaeo-Aramaic depending upon where they lived and the languages of their neighbours.

Although they became culturally assimilated in the Arab world, Jews mostly kept to their own communities.

Upon the establishment of Israel in 1948, 900,000 Jews migrated, fled or were expelled from Muslim majority countries. This is sometimes called “the Jewish Nakba”. Many of these exodi were paid for by Jewish Zionist groups. About 650,000 of these Jews settled in Israel.

The most substantial Jewish immigration came from Syria and Yemen, French Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia and Italian Libya in North Africa. Other Jews came from Africa, Iraq, Egypt, Aden, Iran and Turkey.

To facilitate these ‘transfers’, Mossad stepped quietly organised a movement. Mossad agents were sent from Israel to supervise self-“defence”, information and intelligence, illegal emigration, establishing contact and public relations. It was not great PR when Mossad created the Misgeret armed Jewish militia.

It appears that even in Iran, Israel’s nemesis, Jews are treated fairly and are represented. There may well be less antisemitism against Jews in Muslim countries than in the Western world.

The only sentiments whipped up against Jews resulted during every single one of Israel’s wars.  Yes, there were anti-Jewish riots and massacres. However, terrorism rarely targeted Jews.

Many overseas Jews had long histories in other countries, adopted local traditions and were citizens in their land.

Antisemitism is, of course, just one kind of racism. Aren’t there other Jews who are, well, inferior?

According to the Jewish Agency, “The Ethiopian Jewish community is considered one of the most ancient exiles of the Jewish people. They are actually believed to be from the tribe of Dan, exiled by the Babylonians.

“They followed the Blue Nile south, away from Egypt and Yemen, eventually settling in Ethiopia. Heavily persecuted there for centuries, they lived in very rural, mountainous regions.

“They kept strongly to their Jewish faith in a very biblical way, cut off from the rest of the Jewish world. So, they followed more ancient, biblical traditions, not the traditions of the last 2,500 years.”

All that doesn't seem to matter. Ethiopian Jews in Israel face persistent, systemic racism, colour-based discrimination, and high poverty rates, hindering their full integration into Israeli society.

Despite citizenship, they experience disproportionate police brutality, incarceration rates 760% higher than the general population, and segregation in schools.

Ethiopian Israelis face higher levels of police stop-and-search, arrests, and incarceration. In 2019, protests broke out after a police officer killed an unarmed Ethiopian youth, with many in the community citing a pattern of police misconduct.

Ethiopian Jews face high poverty rates, lower education attainment, and significant employment gaps compared to other Jewish groups in Israel.

The religious establishment questioned the Ethiopians’ Jewishness from their arrival. Discrimination has included incidents like the destruction of blood donations due to HIV fears in the 1990s though Ethiopia’s HIV prevalence is lower than USA’s.

Ethiopian children have faced segregation in schools and experiences with racism in the education system.

Black Jews face micro-aggressions and challenges in social integration, often being treated as "outsiders".

The younger generation of Ethiopian Israelis is actively involved in demonstrations against police brutality and discrimination.

Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, have recognized the racism and established committees aimed at reducing discrimination.

Despite efforts, many Black Jews in Israel feel that significant changes in societal perception are still needed to end the inequalities.

One Ethiopian commented: “A promised land for Jews…as long as they’re not Black? Do Black lives matter in Israel?”

It seems obvious to almost EVERYBODY, these days that The BB has no respect for Israel.

He his hellbent on the destruction of the state.

Obvious to almost everyone, but The BB.

What do you think?

Correct or incorrect?

This is something that doesn't get discussed much.

These people are trapped in the dark ages.

Thank the Lord I don't live in that part of the world.

Jerusalem’s Christian community says there has been a rise in attacks from Israeli ultranationalists on its churches and practices. The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land warned that the rise of Israel’s far-right government has made life worse for Christians and emboldened Israeli ultranationalists.

Calling normal societal tensions between different groups of Jews within Israel antisemitism is INTENTIONALLY INFLAMMATORY not to mention.stupid and wrong.

Of course tbe subject itself is legitimate.

Ethiopian Jews do experience racism but that is not antisemitism.

Reminds of the tensions between historical African Americans in tbe US and mire recent immigrants from Africa. There are differences there and divisions but it is not racism!

Okay, I'll bite. The definition of antisemitism is attacking Jews. Right so far? So when Jews attack other Jews, suddenly that's not antisemitism?

Wait! COME ON! Ever heard of the civil rights movement? It was intended to give US Blacks full equality. You don't call what's happening to Beta Israel racism?!?

Enlighten the stupid and wrongheaded, Jing...

2 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Okay, I'll bite. The definition of antisemitism is attacking Jews. Right so far? So when Jews attack other Jews, suddenly that's not antisemitism?

Wait! COME ON! Ever heard of the civil rights movement? It was intended to give US Blacks full equality. You don't call what's happening to Beta Israel racism?!?

Enlighten the stupid and wrongheaded, Jing...

Doubling down on.your idiocy.

12 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

It seems obvious to almost EVERYBODY, these days that The BB has no respect for Israel.

He his hellbent on the destruction of the state.

Obvious to almost everyone, but The BB.

What do you think?

Correct or incorrect?

Hundreds upon hundreds of millions of people around the world have no respect for Israel at this point in time. Respect must be earned and should never be freely given, and whatever respect Israel once deserved has been long forgotten in their rabid march toward a highly segregated and genocidal state.

6 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Calling normal societal tensions between different groups of Jews within Israel antisemitism is INTENTIONALLY INFLAMMATORY not to mention.stupid and wrong.

Of course tbe subject itself is legitimate.

Ethiopian Jews do experience racism but that is not antisemitism.

Reminds of the tensions between historical African Americans in tbe US and mire recent immigrants from Africa. There are differences there and divisions but it is not racism!

So best to just label it a spectacular level of ignorance rather than anti-Semitism. And it is likely largely driven by skin color. These nitwits somehow presume that whiteness is superior to color.

3 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

So best to just label it a spectacular level of ignorance rather than anti-Semitism. And it is likely largely driven by skin color. These nitwits somehow presume that whiteness is superior to color.

In tbe case of internal divisions among Jews in Israel there is a lot more to it than skin color. But people do love to oversimplify things.

7 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Hundreds upon hundreds of millions of people around the world have no respect for Israel at this point in time. Respect must be earned and should never be freely given, and whatever respect Israel once deserved has been long forgotten in their rabid march toward a highly segregated and genocidal state.

Anybody remember reading this book?

1958

What a JOKE.....!!!!!

16 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Mizrahi Jews, those from Sephardic and Muslim countries, call Ashkenazi AshenNazis because of discrimination against them

Its derogatory term used by some people .

Of course all jews are not the land grabbing types or the types to applause any kind of genocide or murdering of journalists or UN troops in broad daylight etc...All are obviously not bad, like with any nation.

28 minutes ago, Sigmund said:

Of course all jews are not the land grabbing types or the types to applause any kind of genocide or murdering of journalists or UN troops in broad daylight etc...All are obviously not bad, like with any nation.

Correct.

Only the ones in Israel, obviously.

Just came across this article. A Russian immigrant to Israel is taking over Mossad and openly calls himself a coloniser.

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3363907,00.html

Here is a phenomenon that none of the authorities in Israel want to deal with: Anti-Semitism by people who have come from the Soviet Union, and who use the word 'Jew' as a legitimate curse. Number of incidents is on the rise

The drunken man pushed me to the ground, took the leash and started to choke the dog. He was screaming at me “Stinking Zhidovka! (A derogatory name for a Jew in Russian). You Jews destroyed Russia and disturb all the normal people living here”.

(Ella Shapira, a Russian immigrant)

 

Anti-Semitism? In Israel? Everyone is very worried about the rise of anti-Semitism around the world, yet recently there have been many headlines about anti-Semitic incidents here in Israel. Swastikas painted onto synagogues, desecration of headstones - these are no longer the legacy of the Jew in exile. The latest serious incident occurred in Bat Yam, where a group of teenagers burned an Israeli flag and mezuzahs.

Everyone sweeps the issue of anti-Semitism in Israel under the rug” says Zalman Glichevsky, the president of the organization. “There is a leading skinhead website, and I discovered that they have a discussion group which includes Russian speakers from Israel”.

Glichevsky, who immigrated to Israel in the early nineties, began to investigate the matter. He put an ad in a newspaper for Russian speakers and appealed to anyone who had ever experienced anti-Semitism in Israel. In Tel Aviv they called her 'a stinking Jew’.

Ella Shapira from Tel Aviv is a veteran immigrant who came to Israel in 1976 from Leningrad. In her hometown, she was not able to pursue a career or get accepted to a university because she was a Jew. She personally experienced anti-Semitism and hoped that she could forget this unpleasant experience upon her arrival in Israel.

 

However she can tell of the many hateful utterances she has heard in the Russian stores, in public parks, or just in the streets. One incident, in 2001, even became physical, when a drunken man attacked her and yelled Russian slurs at her. “I walked in the streets and cried. “To where have we come, if in the Jewish state they humiliate me because I am Jewish”, she says.

Shapira is angered by the comprehensive disregard of the problem. “This is a subject that no one likes or is afraid to speak of. For the workers in the Jewish Agency, bringing new immigrants to Israel is a good business, many people profit from it. But they are bringing people who have no connection to Judaism, and some who have been brought up to hate it. I often encounter these situations.

My outer appearance does not reveal my origins. Thus, a few weeks ago I went into a clothing store and the two saleswomen began to talk about me in Russian: 'Here is a dirty Jew, she is going to touch everything and make it dirty.' They were shocked when I answered them in Russian and explained to them that it is forbidden to speak that way”.

“I once heard a group of kids next to a school, cursing each other with the words “stinking Jew”. I decided that I had to approach them and find out why they had so much hatred towards Jews. They explained that until they came to Israel, they had no idea that they had any Jewish blood. Their parents and relatives, including those who had come to Israel- hated Jews…the word “Jew” in Russia was considered a bad word. Most of them were embarrassed to be Jews, hated it and learned from the Russians to hate Jews”.

They have invested a lot in the image of Israel as a refuge from anti-Semitism. If there is more anti-Semitism here than in some other countries, then what is the point of the state of Israel?” He also warns: “anti-Semites who live in Israel and want to harm Jews can do it very easily.

If in Russia the neo-nazis walk around with knives, here they have access to real weapons because they serve in the IDF”.