r/Israel • u/Middle_Ad_8052 • Mar 15 '24

Photo/Video An anti-Israel protester claims most Israelis are light-skinned and blonde.

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It’s amazing that she thinks most Israelis are light skinned and blonde and are not brown.

Obviously, she has never visited Israel. Leaving aside the fact that most Jews in Israel are brown, how is it that a people who were persecuted for not being European and sent to the gas chambers 80 years ago are suddenly considered white?

On a side note, how have they normalized this racism against white people? Why do we accept ANY racism against ANY race or skin color?

This is not about the Palestinians and Israel, this is pure bigotry and lies.

The progressive movement has gone too far. It's the Jews and Israel now, but it won't end there.

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Mizrahi jews

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Anti israel protester thinks most Israelis are light skinned and blonde, how have they normalized this racism against white people?

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u/sad-frogpepe Israel Mar 15 '24

And khaazars

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u/Count-Elderberry36 Mar 15 '24

That’s why I said Turk. The Khazars were Turkish

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u/kaiserfrnz Mar 15 '24

They were a Turkic speaking people of Caucasian/Siberian origin.

A Turk means someone from Turkey, which they weren’t. It’s confusing because Turkic languages aren’t indigenous to Anatolia or anywhere else in Turkey.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

All Turks came from Central Asia to Anatolia region and settled there because Genghis Khan wanted to eat their ass.

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u/kaiserfrnz Mar 15 '24

Well the Mongol empire was Turkicized later on but yeah.

There are still Turkics in lots of other places in Central Asia and Siberia

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

Yup. Yeah. One of my ancestors came from Central Asia to maybe escape Mongols or to settle in someplace good and came to India where he maybe did something to the community of my other ancestors and then had a child which became my ancestor. I have talked to many Turks. They are good. I can understand them a little bit as there are Persian words in their language as well as mine.