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barsoap@lemm.ee 11 months agoWhite supremacist my ass the people voting extreme right in Israel aren’t the Ashkenazi.
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barsoap@lemm.ee 11 months agoWhite supremacist my ass the people voting extreme right in Israel aren’t the Ashkenazi.
Maeve@kbin.social 11 months ago
I really don’t know, but I’d imagine as with most elections in most nations, there’s a decent mix?
barsoap@lemm.ee 11 months ago
About 75% of Israeli are Jews, the plurality of which (~45%) are Mizrahi, that is, from North Africa or Asia. And yes they lean quite a bit more right in elections than Ashkenazi. In no particular order: Lack of democratic and enlightenment tradition in their ancestral countries, poor and uneducated background, being told “yeah this is our birthright the Arabs don’t belong here” and actually believing it, as well as resentment against leftists because becoming a manager or boss in Israel is quite impossible without a good education and in the first big immigration waves all the power was held by mostly lefty Ashkenazi.
If you want accuse Israel of being ethnically supremacist, well, it’s a minority but they’re as troublesome as everywhere else and currently in government, but in any don’t get fucking “white” involved in there. Ben-Gvir’s family is from Iraq he didn’t learn to be an assclown from Europeans.