From https://sethfrantzman.com/2016/03/20/10-things-i-wish-id-also-known-before-moving-to-israel/amp/
3) Israel has a racism problem: Israelis are tremendously racist and full of stereotypes for everyone that is different. Ethiopian Jews are “cushim”, the Israeli equivalent of the n-word. Arabs are “those Arabs” and “those primitives” or “terrorists”. Jews who happened to have come from Yemen or Iraq are “Mizrahim” and are regarded by elite culture as uncultured and less intelligent than “Ashkenazim”. If you are Ashkenazi, you will be expected to embrace this new invented “Ashkenazi” identity as an ethnic identity and encouraged to think of yourself as superior, just for having been born with a European-Jewish last name. You will be expected to learn the Israeli terms for the “others”. Mizrahi Jews are “arsim” and Orthodox religious Jews are “dosim”. Everyone is seen is an other and often as a “threat”. So you’ll be expected to feel that Orthodox Jews, who might have lived in your neighborhood before you even got there, are a “threat” to the secular “life”. Mizrahi Jews are said to be “racist” and they are claimed to be at fault for the “right wing government.” Over time you’ll be expected to only associate with people “like yourself”, which means joining one of these balkanized groups and raising your children only around “our kind” and wanting to maintain your community as “us only.” You’ll be expected to blame all the other groups for the failings of society, so that religious Jews who don’t go to the army are “parasites” and Arabs are a “demographic threat.” You’ll discuss openly these “threats” over dinner with friends. The “settlers” threaten the state through bi-nationalism, and the radical left does also, everyone is out to get you. Only your kind are the “good ones” who if not for you the state would collapse. Eventually you’ll grow to hate most of the people in society who are different, and your hatred of them will be reinforced by your friends.
3) Israel has a racism problem: Israelis are tremendously racist and full of stereotypes for everyone that is different. Ethiopian Jews are “cushim”, the Israeli equivalent of the n-word. Arabs are “those Arabs” and “those primitives” or “terrorists”. Jews who happened to have come from Yemen or Iraq are “Mizrahim” and are regarded by elite culture as uncultured and less intelligent than “Ashkenazim”. If you are Ashkenazi, you will be expected to embrace this new invented “Ashkenazi” identity as an ethnic identity and encouraged to think of yourself as superior, just for having been born with a European-Jewish last name. You will be expected to learn the Israeli terms for the “others”. Mizrahi Jews are “arsim” and Orthodox religious Jews are “dosim”. Everyone is seen is an other and often as a “threat”. So you’ll be expected to feel that Orthodox Jews, who might have lived in your neighborhood before you even got there, are a “threat” to the secular “life”. Mizrahi Jews are said to be “racist” and they are claimed to be at fault for the “right wing government.” Over time you’ll be expected to only associate with people “like yourself”, which means joining one of these balkanized groups and raising your children only around “our kind” and wanting to maintain your community as “us only.” You’ll be expected to blame all the other groups for the failings of society, so that religious Jews who don’t go to the army are “parasites” and Arabs are a “demographic threat.” You’ll discuss openly these “threats” over dinner with friends. The “settlers” threaten the state through bi-nationalism, and the radical left does also, everyone is out to get you. Only your kind are the “good ones” who if not for you the state would collapse. Eventually you’ll grow to hate most of the people in society who are different, and your hatred of them will be reinforced by your friends.
