A more precise picture of Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel has emerged from social security data, confirming the unprecedented scale of the violence but also challenging some initial testimonies.
About half of Israeli Jews are of north African or middle eastern descent. That’s not a “one drop” thing; literally 25% of Israeli Jews were either born or have a father who was born in Asia (outside of Israel) or Africa. The second largest group of first or second generation immigrants are Moroccan Jews.
But in the US context, North Africans and Middle Easterners are considered white, at least as far as the census goes.
Yeah… Israel’s political institutions are paragons of racial diversity.
I see several non white middle easterners in that picture.
You want to point out the “non white middle easterners” in the picture? You know… for those of us who doesn’t work on the “one-drop rule.”
About half of Israeli Jews are of north African or middle eastern descent. That’s not a “one drop” thing; literally 25% of Israeli Jews were either born or have a father who was born in Asia (outside of Israel) or Africa. The second largest group of first or second generation immigrants are Moroccan Jews.
But in the US context, North Africans and Middle Easterners are considered white, at least as far as the census goes.
I’m guessing they all just coincidentally happen to be off sick every time people take pictures inside the Knesset, huh?
Do tell… does that perhaps explain why Israel’s economic and political structures seem to be dominated by European Jewish people?