OnlyBrownMastodon 🤎 🖤Aug 4, 2024

"Albeit to a far lesser extent than Palestinian citizens of Israel, Mizrahim are effectively barred from accessing ¹ or living in ² certain parts of the country due to racist laws and practices ³.

They are underrepresented in media, academia, law, and politics. There has never been a Mizrahi prime minister, and only a handful of Mizrahim have been appointed to the most highly coveted government ministries.

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¹ https://www.972mag.com/asi-river-ashkenazi-zionist-left/
² https://www.972mag.com/topic/admissions-committees/
³ https://www.972mag.com/rabin-square-zionist-left/

The story of Israel's Ashkenazi supremacy in one river

A river running through an Israeli kibbutz has turned into a site of controversy and violence that highlights how irrelevant the Zionist left has become.

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Show threadOnlyBrownMastodon 🤎 🖤Aug 4, 2024

"They were the sons and daughters of the Jewish exodus from the Arab world, known nowadays as Mizrahi (plural: Mizrahim), but more commonly referred to at the time as Sephardim.

They soon found themselves being racialized as Black ¹ by a hegemonic Ashkenazi class tracing its heritage to Europe, whose vision of a Jewish state had not much accounted for Mizrahim before the Holocaust eliminated two-thirds of European Jewry.

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#palestine

¹ https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-04-11/ty-article-magazine/.premium/the-guerrilla-filmmaker-who-caught-israels-black-panthers-on-tape/0000017f-db3b-db5a-a57f-db7b3ca80000

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"Israel’s Ashkenazi founders greeted the Mizrahi with racist disdain.

Authorities hosed them down with pesticide; settled them in remote desert camps ¹ or crammed them into the homes of exiled Palestinian refugees ²...

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#palestine #mizrahi #mizrahim #ashkenazi

¹ https://www.haaretz.com/2015-04-18/ty-article/.premium/a-giant-gap-in-consciousness/0000017f-e746-df5f-a17f-ffdeec1a0000
² https://www.972mag.com/salama-mizrahim-nakba-palestinians/

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Show threadOnlyBrownMastodon 🤎 🖤Aug 4, 2024

"...proletarianized ³ them and funneled them into menial labor ⁴; suppressed ⁵ their culture; separated ⁶ thousands from their children; and forced tens of thousands to undergo radiation ⁷ that led to serious health complications.

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³ https://archive.org/details/swirsky2/page/n3/mode/2up
⁴ https://www.972mag.com/shovrot-kirot-mizrahi-feminist-activism/
⁵ https://www.972mag.com/how-can-this-monkey-be-talking-about-an-ideology-that-developed-in-europe/
⁶ https://www.972mag.com/mizrahi-graves-yemenite-israel/
⁷ https://www.haaretz.com/2004-07-30/ty-article/running-rings-around-the-victims/0000017f-dbf2-d856-a37f-fff2ea490000

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Show threadOnlyBrownMastodon 🤎 🖤Aug 4, 2024

"All the while, a rebellion was brewing.

The Panthers mobilized thousands in downtown Jerusalem, hurling glass bottles, bricks, rocks, and Molotov cocktails at police.

Immortalized as 'The Night of the Panthers,' it was the largest civil disturbance that Israeli authorities would face until a mass uprising ¹ of Palestinian citizens five years later, commemorated every year since as Land Day ².

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¹ https://www.972mag.com/land-day-strike-palestinian-citizens/
² https://www.972mag.com/topic/land-day/

'A foundational moment for Palestinians': Remembering the first Land Day

Said Zeedani, who was part of the 1976 strike by Palestinian citizens in which Israel killed six protesters, recalls the build-up to "a political earthquake."

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Show threadOnlyBrownMastodon 🤎 🖤Aug 4, 2024

"Despite their seismic entrance into Israeli history, half a century later, the Panthers and their rebellion have been largely — and perhaps wilfully — forgotten.

'I went on a tour of Musrara that Reuven led; my mind was just blown by this guy,' Elia-Shalev recalled. “Around 70 years old, and he had this fire and sense of urgency, and spoke so compellingly about his life.

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Show threadOnlyBrownMastodon 🤎 🖤Aug 4, 2024

"'I had just read the autobiography of Malcolm X, and Reuven sounded like him; saying such powerful things. How come no one has heard this story?

The American Black Panthers were real revolutionaries who wanted to join with the oppressed people of the world and create a new order.

The [Israeli] Panthers weren’t quite there. They talked a big game, used phrases like ‘by any means necessary,’ and threatened to overthrow the state, but I think they ultimately wanted to belong.'"

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Show threadOnlyBrownMastodon 🤎 🖤Aug 4, 2024

"Nearly half a century later, Likud — and Netanyahu — reigns in Israeli politics, thanks to loyal Mizrahim. ¹

'Interesting to see nostalgia for the Panthers on the Israeli right', Elia-Shalev remarked.

“You’d never see the Republican Party being nostalgic for the Black Panther Party.

But Likud has tapped into Mizrahi grievances, and obscure that the Panthers were a left-wing radical program for a socialist economy and recognition of a Palestinian state.'

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¹ https://www.972mag.com/mizrahim-right-wing-ashkenazi-supremacy/

Yes, Mizrahim support the right. But not for the reasons you think

By supporting right-wing parties, Mizrahim have found solutions to hardships that stemmed from decades of Ashkenazi supremacy in Israel.

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Show threadOnlyBrownMastodon 🤎 🖤Aug 4, 2024

"Abergel has been a regular fixture at protests against Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, the cost of living ¹, and plans to deport asylum seekers ².

He reflects on what became of the Panthers’ revolt somewhat wistfully, telling Elia-Shalev: 'In every revolution, dreamers sow the seeds, the courageous carry it forward, and the bastards reap the fruits of the struggle.'"

#palestine #gaza

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https://www.972mag.com/israeli-black-panthers-book-mizrahim/

¹ https://www.972mag.com/topic/social-protests/
² https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y08po1maksI

Who is reaping the fruits of the Israeli Black Panthers' struggle?

Half a century after setting off a political earthquake from the impoverished streets of Jerusalem, the radical Mizrahi movement has been largely forgotten. A new book seeks to untangle their contested legacy.

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