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ellynu wrote

Reply to comment by neku in What are the arguments in support of Israel? by twovests

Israel is white, Palestine is brown/Israel is white, Palestine is muslim

this is definitely a way that people are gonna defend them but there is also a large collection of jewish israeli people who have a long family history in the middle east and definitely would not be considered white in any sense, and i feel like that's important to understand too.

the mizrahi/sephardi haredim (super orthodox) conservative religious party in the knesst holds more seats than the ashkenazi equivalent, for example.

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neku wrote

sure but no westerner knows or cares about that. israel is a white country like south africa is a white country. the details have nothing to do with it

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ellynu wrote

i know somebody who is sephardi and has family in israel and she would definitely bring this up as a fact to say that people know nothing about israel so i guess its important if you are interacting with anyone like that.

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