From
RRW
«When
asked to speak at certain Zionist functions, many Jewish refugees from
the Middle East and North Africa are asked to focus on the mistreatment
they experienced under Arab rule—not the ways in which they successfully
coexisted with Muslims, or the serious discrimination they have faced
in Israeli society after arriving in the Promised Land. In anti-Zionist
circles the situation inverts: the hosts are delighted to hear tales of
Israeli malfeasance but are deeply hostile if the topic turns to the
oppression and expulsion of Jews from Arab countries or if the Jews
proclaim a proud connection to Israel. Either way, non-Ashkenazi Jews
are engaged with only as far as they support someone else’s narrative.
Once they seek to speak in their own voice, their putative allies
disappear.
‘Most
non-Ashkenazi Jews in the world live in Israel, and so a boycott of
Israel functionally acts to exclude most Jews of color from global
conversations.’»
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