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May. 24, 2021 1:52 PM
Similar to the Palestinians brain drain in academia and research, industry and trade, culture and art – many Mizrahim feel compelled to look beyond Israel’s borders for the chance to have a better future for themselves and their families. A new initiative showcasing Mizrahim (Jews of Middle Eastern or North African origins) active in many fields, the Mizrahi Left Project features lectures, film screenings and discussions on what it means to be Mizrahi and on the history of the Mizrahi left in Israel.
The nine-part series, held on Zoom and conducted in English, is aimed at second-generation Mizrahi Israelis who are living in the United States. Participants in the project, the first of its kind, include Mizrahi artists, scholars and intellectuals from Israel as well as North America, including Dr. Yali Hashash, a queer feminist scholar; Dr. Ofir Abu, whose field is Israel studies; Prof. Hille
Red-state Mizrahi Israelis don’t want liberal sympathy or solutions
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Red-state Mizrahi Israelis don’t want liberal sympathy or solutions
Attempts to draw analogies between Trump voters and the Israeli right fail to understand Jews who trace their origins to the Muslim world and illustrate the left’s contempt for “deplorables.”
(December 21, 2020 / JNS) Liberal American Jews are generally confused when it comes to Israelis. On the one hand, they claim to have empathy and support for Jews of color. But in order to inflate the number of those who fit that fashionable category, which offers an opportunity for post-Black Lives Matter virtue-signaling about racial issues, they must conflate Mizrahi Jews who trace their origins to countries in the Muslim world with black or Hispanic Jews into one catch-all category. But while concern about treating all members of the Jewish community fairly is well-founded, the condescension implied in the effort only increases