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Mizrahi rebel: Bidding farewell to an Israeli Black Panther
Kochavi Shemesh, one of the legendary leaders of the Israeli Black Panthers, believed that the liberation of Mizrahim was bound up with the freedom of Palestinians, black South Africans, and other oppressed people. He passed away last week at the age of 75. By Asaf Shalev Kochavi Shemesh, who was born in Iraq during World War II and…
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May 19, 2019
At Tel Aviv rally, a Mizrahi-asylum seeker alliance is born
Tens of thousands crowded Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Saturday to show solidarity for asylum seekers facing deportation. ‘If we let the deportation happen, the Jewish people will have a stain on its history forever.’ It was an unusually hazy night in Tel Aviv. The lights from the stage caught the dust in long, yellow beams.…
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Joshua Leifer
March 25, 2018
Israel’s Black Panthers remind us what their struggle was about
Back in the 1970s, the deep socioeconomic divide between Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews in Israel led to a massive protest movement and the rise of the Israeli Black Panthers. A newly approved official civics textbook in Israel portrays the movement as violent and criminal. We called up three Black Panthers to remind us all of the true…
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Haokets
October 11, 2016
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The roots of anti-Mizrahi racism in Israel
The founders of the state, Jews of Ashkenazi origin raised on European ideas, viewed ‘Oriental Jews’ as backward and primitive from the moment they began arriving en masse on Israel’s shores. “An Ashkenazi gangster, thief, pimp or murderer will not gain the sympathy of the Ashkenazi community (if there is such a thing), nor will he expect…
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Edo Konrad
December 1, 2015
Fighting occupation must not blind us from remembering the Nakba
A solution to the problem of the occupation will be worthless if we do not gain the courage to take apart the human food chain that has become entrenched in this land since 1948. On Sunday night, I spoke at the annual protest march — this time in Jerusalem, rather than Tel Aviv where it…
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Orly Noy
May 31, 2015
Israeli Black Panther: Mizrahim must boycott the elections
Since its establishment and until today, not a single election has fundamentally changed the status of Mizrahim in the ‘only democracy in the Middle East.’ Now we must use the only tool we have left at our disposal and refuse to participate in the game altogether. By Reuven Abergel For Palestinian citizens of Israel, the upcoming…
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Haokets
February 20, 2015
‘How can this monkey be talking about an ideology that developed in Europe?’
‘We are progress and modernization, freedom and equality, ‘peace and love.’ And they, what are they?’ On the history of the painful relationship between the Israeli Left and Mizrahim. By Ron Cahlili (Translated from Hebrew by Orit Friedland) The common wisdom is that Mizrahim and the Left are like oil and water, and that the two…
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Haokets
April 17, 2013
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