Re:Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly...
by jon_adler on Saturday April 18, 2026 @01:08PM
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This isn’t accurate. The majority of Jews in Israel are Mizrahi. The vast majority of them left the Muslim-majority countries during the Arab–Israeli conflict, in what is known as the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.
Re:Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly...
by aibrahem on Saturday April 18, 2026 @04:42PM
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It’s widely accepted that Israel orchestrated attacks on the Jewish population in arab countries to push them to migrate to Israel.
For example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950–1951_Baghdad_bombings#:~:...
Re:Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly...
by tptacek on Saturday April 18, 2026 @06:33PM
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It is not even remotely the case that scholars accept that the expulsion of Jewish people from MENA was orchestrated by the new state of Israel.
What's especially aggravating about this trope is how useless it is in a discussion about today. It's not true, but if it were, what would that matter? You're still talking about Moroccans, Tunisians, Yemenis, and Iraqis who are not temporarily-embarrassed Europeans with a free pass to move back to where they came from.
A grandparent comment made the claim that most Israelis are from "Europe, Russia, pretty much anywhere but the middle east". That claim is luridly false. Why mitigate such a clownish argument? Acknowledge it's wrong and move on; don't build it into your own argument.
Re:Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly...
by _DeadFred_ on Saturday April 18, 2026 @07:53PM
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God this website loves bs conspiracy theory if it applies to jews. But we couldn't even talk about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
What is undisputed is that those called Israeli today are majority NOT traditionally Middle Eastern, whose ethnic origins trace back only to Europe, Russia, and pretty much anywhere except the Middle East, with the only exceptions being, that's right, Arab Jews (a concept Zionists struggle with) that have lived in Palestine for centuries. The whole concept of Aliyah is about immigrating to Palestine. What their true origins are is difficult to pinpoint widely because commercial genetic testing to find out their actual ethnic origins is banned in Israel or so highly regulated it is effectively blocked.
Zionism is a European settler colonial concept. It harmed primarily Arabs, Muslim, Christian, and Jew, and remain one of the last an anachronistic relics of the imperial settler colonies of the past 500 years.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Palestinians#cit... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Palestinians#cit...