• DeadHorseX@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The majority of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi Jews who fled to Israel after almost all of them, some 850,000 in total, were expelled or pressured out of Muslim-majority Middle Eastern countries from 1948 through the 1950s. About 72% (650,000) settled in Israel.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world

    The notion that Jewish Israelis are just Europeans is a profoundly racist and ignorant belief.

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      5 months ago

      Even if that’s true they certainly jumped on the settler colonialism bandwagon from Europe quick enough.