The one interesting thing that connects the Palestinian and Israeli leftist narratives in your article is that Sepharadim and Mizrahim don`t exist. Our history and experience as refugees doesn`t exist (in fact it has been denied by some writers in your paper). Forigners reading this paper must think everybody came over from Europe. When I am in America I undersand this, because everbody is Ashkenazi but in Israel we are still a majority of the Jewish population. To the Ashkenazi Israeli left, we are no longer the second Israel, we are the invisible Israel.
I am no right winger by any stretch and I want for peace, but when Ashkenazi friends ask me why there are almost no Sepharadim on the left, I tell them 2 things: 1) Learn about our tragic history and oppression in the Arab world and 2) read what the left wing elites write in Haaretz. |
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