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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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/ZoZoReRe Mar 16 '24 edited Mar 16 '24

As an Arab, I’d like to offer the reason for the clearly incorrect statements that are made in this video.

I call this: The internal monologue of an Arab supremacist:

Arabs know that many many Arabs are white.

My mom, for instance, is blonde hair with green eyes— she looks like she’s Swedish. So much so that when she visits her sister in Sweden, people are certain my mother is from there. Her sister looks very Swedish too - but my mom - is as white as it gets. However, too Arabs, she is not white. Why? The reason, is because when Arabs talk about “white” they mean westerner. And this is a term they’ve been using since time.

“A white person said X” means “a Westerner said X.” This, in fact, is the lens of arab supremacy. It’s a belief that Arabs are superior to other ethnic groups. Because to Arabs - white is used synonymously with “other.” It’s anyone who isn’t Arab. White to the rest of the world = European’s. So they aren’t using the same language. Again, this is an assault on words.

In general - the fact that Arabs are telling people what race they are, is hands down the most racist thing of all. “You don’t tell me who you are - I tell you who you are.” This, is Arab supremacy. This, harkens back to the arab slave trade where Arabs went around doing the exact same thing. Its also what happens in the Middle East till this day. It’s Arabs hyper fixation with skin complexion and dividing people based on the other. They are “white” means “they are not Arabs.”

Arabs do not see that by telling Jewish people they are white, they are doing far more than simply factually incorrect. They are, in fact, using the language of Arab supremacists. They are acting through the lens of Arab colonizers.  

Arabs are the most successful colonizers ever and Palestinian-Arabs belong to the most successful colonizers in world history.

If they want to talk about the violent subjugation of local indigenous peoples, fantastic: Berbers, Yazidis, Arameans, Zoroastrians and Copts. There are many more, along with Jewish people, who are examples of people colonized by Arabs.

Arab-Palestinians took part  in the Arab slave trade, so they really shouldn’t be talking about slaughtering and colonizing. How do you get black Palestinians? Did they skip over there by choice?? No. Last official record of a black-Arab living as a slave in Palestine was 1930. And the descendants of black-Palestinians are their visa vie the slave trade. And they still sell chocolates called Ras El Abid in Palestine- maybe they can get that under control, deal with their own racist history?

This is what Arab supremacy looks like: telling people what race they are, based on an inherent belief that they are superior and get to label people as they see fit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Palestine

https://www.newsflare.com/video/531282/palestinian-workers-prepare-the-vanilla-candy-known-as-ras-el-abed-or-shatawi-at-a-factory