"Everyone knows that the creation of Israel involves the destruction of Palestine. As simple as that" - Edward Said. What else is needed to see that Zionism is inherently genocidal, seeking to replace the entire population and "Judaize" the land? First Zionists explicitly said that the "local" Jews were "Untermenschen" and Middle-Eastern Jews in general also. Zionist project is WHITE JEWISH SUPREMACISM that started to use the Jews of color only later, for demographic reasons, as cannon fodder and cheap labor. "Zionist colonialism was still a failed project by the 1950s.
Ben Gurion needed the “Oriental” Jews, as he described non Ashkenazi Jews, to farm the thousands of acres of land left by Palestinians who were driven out by zionist thugs and mass murderers in 1948.
The following are a selection of the many racist, antisemitic comments from the zionist leadership at this time:
“This is the immigration of a race we have not yet known in the country (edit: Mizrahi Jews). We are dealing with people whose primitivism is at a peak, whose level of knowledge is one of virtually absolute ignorance and, worse, who have little talent for understanding anything intellectual. Generally, they are only slightly better than the general level of the Arabs, Negroes, and Berbers in the same regions. In any case, they are at an even lower level than what we know with regard to the former Arabs of Israel. These Jews also lack roots in Judaism, as they are totally subordinated to savage and primitive instincts. As with Africans you will find among them gambling, drunkenness, and prostitution … chronic laziness and hatred for work; there is nothing safe about this asocial element. [Even] the kibbutzim will not hear of their absorption.”
(Aryeh Gelblum writing in Ha’aretz about the arriving Mizrahi immigrants in 1949, Ha’aretz (Tel Aviv), Apr. 22, 1949.)
David Ben-Gurion described the Mizrahi immigrants as lacking even “the most elementary knowledge” or “a trace of Jewish or human education.”
(Shohat, “Mizrahim in Israel,” p. 3.)
“We do not want Israelis to become Arabs. We are bound by duty to fight against the spirit of the Levant that corrupts individuals and society.”
(Ben-Gurion, Sami Smooha, Israel: Pluralism and Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978) p. 88.)
“We have to recognize the primitive mentality of many of the immigrants from backward countries.”
He further suggested that Mizrahi Jews have the mentality of primitive people who are somewhat “mentally disturbed”.
(Karl Frankenstein, the man considered the “father of the Israeli education system”, 1950s, quoted in Sami Shalom Chetrit, Hamaavak Hamizrahi Beyisrael, Bein Dikui Leshihrur, Bein Hizdahut Lealternativa, 1948–2003 (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2004), pp. 76–8.)
Israeli sociologist Yosef Gross argued in the early 1950s that Mizrahi immigrants suffered from “mental regression.”
(Quoted in Ella Shohat, “Rupture and Return: A Mizrahi Perspective on the Zionist Discourse,” The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, May 2001, pp. 58–71)
“one of the great apprehensions which afflict us is the danger of the predominance of immigrants of Oriental origin forcing Israel to equalize its cultural level with that of the neighboring world.”
(Abba Eban, whose career saw him as Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations and Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly; Sami Smooha, Israel: Pluralism and Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978) p. 88.)
“A Jew from Eastern Europe is worth twice as much as a Jew from Kurdistan…..We should return a hundred thousand of the Jews of the East to their countries of origin.”
(Nachum Goldman, chairman of the Jewish Agency and president of the World Zionist Organization in the late 1940s and 1950s; Chetrit, Hamaavak Hamizrahi Beyisrael, p. 65.)
“Shall we be able to elevate these immigrants to a suitable level of civilization?”
(Golda Meir, Smooha, Israel: Pluralism and Conflict, pp. 8–89.)"
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