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“ One Eastern European, the other Sephardic”
The political dynamics between these two ethnic streams of Judaism are really complicated too. Early on I’m given to understand this is by interview. The left wing in Israel left the Shephardic Jewish population out to dry, and the right wing has leverage the political advantage that generational anger created to get their support.
As Palestinians are ethically cleansed, they are the next in line
“ One Eastern European, the other Sephardic”
The political dynamics between these two ethnic streams of Judaism are really complicated too. Early on I’m given to understand this is by interview. The left wing in Israel left the Shephardic Jewish population out to dry, and the right wing has leverage the political advantage that generational anger created to get their support.
As Palestinians are ethically cleansed, they are the next in line
@GhostOnTheHalfShell it’s worse that that… going back to the roots of #Zionism (after Herzl essentially):
European Zionist colonization of #Palestine was built on explicit racial hierarchies and #eugenics. Arthur Ruppin (Zionism’s dirty little secret), director of the #Palestine Office and architect of Zionist settlement from 1908, promoted pseudoscientific race theories claiming original Jews were non-Semitic “Aryans” who had been corrupted by intermarriage with “inferior” Semitic peoples. Ruppin applied eugenic selection to all Jews - Eastern European, North African, Yemenite, and Ethiopian etc - “admitting” into the “Altneuland” only those deemed racially fit “human material” while rejecting those he classified as degenerate.
The colonization of Palestine was meant for him before the holocaust as a home for racially pure Jews. Sephardic Jews like Herzl were already too assimilated and impure. In fact his racial theories - developed through collaboration with #Nazi racial theorists and later were quoted in Nazi propaganda justifying the Nuremberg Laws - classified Herzl’s nose as “Assyrian-Bukharan” and categorized other Ashkenazi Jews with racialized classifications including “Ashkenazi-Negroid.” In Palestine this biological racism became institutionalized through settlement policies that systematically discriminated against Jews deemed racially inferior. He was the mentor of Zionist leaders like Ben Gurion, and if you know anything about Golda Meir, you’d know she wasn’t too far off from Rupin’s eugenicist swamp both in her views of Arabs and Muslims as well as Arab Jews. Zionism in this context is highly racialized.
Must add that all changed after the #Holocaust, when the Zionist movement found itself with six million fewer European Jews and turned to North African and Middle Eastern Jewish communities to supply the labor and population needed for the colonization of Palestine.
See for example this and many more articles and book by Bloom and others
https://www.haaretz.com/2009-10-08/ty-article/the-makings-of-history-revisiting-arthur-ruppin/0000017f-dc90-db5a-a57f-dcfae53c0000
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I had only a taste of how complicated a lot of thinking was, but had not known about this angle.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @oatmeal I knew a fair bit about it, but I’ve spent a lot of time trying to untangle 100 years of history.
The Christians in new Israel weren’t treated any better than the Muslims, it just took longer to get to them. They didn’t start attacking christians until after the King David Massacre. By that time, the Irgun had been fully mobilized to attack Muslims in “Jewish” cities, but hadn’t dared move into Bethlehem. After the British retreated, they moved in.
Even today, in Al-Makhrour Valley (Beit Jala) 3000 dunams of UNESCO-protected farmland and olive groves, has been Targeted for the planned Nahal Heletz colony. These are some of the oldest Christian communities in the world. They plan to bulldoze them like they have Nahalin and Husan.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @oatmeal I'm a mutt, like most Americans, but of the Levantine heritage, it is Shephardic. Interesting, Ashkenazi from the French side, although you'd think it would have come from the Polish or Russian. Plus Dutch, English, and a smattering of others.
That's the thing that makes America so interesting, is the utter smorgasbord of nationalities. We have this amazing amalgamation of the the entire world, and instead of embracing it, celebrating multiculturalism and everything it's brought to America, we've got fascists on the streets trying to gun down anyone not white enough.
It's absurd. It's obscene. We must put an end to it.
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