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Ppl keep saying they're down to burn the system down every year I just wanna know what that even meansThe dismantle talk is all a waste of time. We're not dismantling ****.
Doing a TikTok dance is what they meanPpl keep saying they're down to burn the system down every year I just wanna know what that even means
You might expect, based on their history, that Mizrahi Jews would be associated with the Israeli left today. Yet that’s not the case: Many Mizrahim are now right-wing. In fact, it’s impossible to understand Israel’s lurch to the right and the rise of the hawkish Likud party without understanding the trajectory of the Mizrahim. So, what happened?
For starters, the experience of being kicked out of Arab countries post-1948 naturally soured many Jews’ feelings toward the Arab world. Plus, from the moment they arrived in Israel, the experience of discrimination taught Mizrahim that gaining social status was contingent on rejecting Arabness.
And what better way to reject it than to become the most nationalist and the most anti-Arab of all?
As Smadar Lavie, a Mizrahi anthropologist and author of Wrapped in the Flag of Israel, put it to me, “If your only choice is to wag your racial purity — you need to prove that you’re a good Jew, which means you’re a nationalist Jew — then that’s what you’ll do.”
But there was another factor at play. For the first three decades of Israel’s existence, it was ruled by the Labor Party, which was rooted in both socialism and Ashkenazi Zionism. In practice, that meant building up leftist institutions like the kibbutz — a kind of utopian agricultural commune that stretches back to Zionism’s early days — even while pushing Palestinians off their land and discriminating against Mizrahim (who were more likely to be hired as cheap laborers on a kibbutz than to gain membership in it).
This was the version of “leftism” that Mizrahim encountered. For many, continuing to support the Labor Party when it represented the Ashkenazi Zionists who oppressed them was an extremely unappealing prospect.
Meanwhile, the Israeli right, which favored an even more hardline approach toward the Palestinians, strategically used the left’s discrimination against Mizrahim to its own advantage. From the 1950s to the 1970s, it invested in courting Mizrahim by promising them concrete benefits and upward mobility.
When people predict stuff like this, I often think you need a more global perspective.
Nigeria has
a similar presidential system,
-WAY worse income inequality
- LESS social cohesion and more racial conflict,
-WAY worse corruption,
- worse police violence.
- more political corruption.
and I don't see any signs of it ending.
if a band of vicious criminals can sustain Nigeria as a political project,
im not sure what would make America "unsustainable"
Dearborn's mayor and Arab American leaders condemn controversial chants at protest
A controversial protest held by Al Quds Committee Detroit was held April 5 outside the Henry Ford Centennial Library in Dearborn.www.freep.com
The pro-palestinian folks who are physically out there marching must be very careful about the kind of events they attend and which actors in Gaza/the WB benefit from their support. They can choose to be naive about their bedfellows, but only they will be surprised when they get mistaken for islamist sympathizers. They're doing themselves a disservice by ignoring the complexities of this conflict.I mean if you’re going to chat that then you should just revoke your citizenship and move somewhere else.
It’s one thing to be frustrated with the system but it’s a whole other to literally chant death to America. You’re no better than the maga cult at that point.
Goodness gracious the dedicated thread for the Israel/Palestine conflict is a mess