Show Me a Hero (and I’ll Write You a Tragedy)

Mizrahi journalists and activists, are calling for the name of journalist Aryeh Gelblum name to be stripped from a cul-de-sac, which was named after him after his death in 1991. That’s because wrote that immigrants from Arab and North African lands possessed a “superlative primitiveness.” Should Israel purge the names of those who described Mizrahi Jews as ignorant from the public sphere?

This is a segment from The “Judaism: The Theme Park” Edition.

 

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Photo by Zoltan Kruger: A Yemenite nurse reading from a newspaper to new immigrants in Israel around the time of immigration from Yemen.

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