• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    4 days ago

    They look pretty much the same in terms of skin tone. It’s not whites vs browns. They all just look Mediterranean

    Who? Israel’s dominant sociopolitical group are Ashkenazi. They’re white. Pretending it’s Mediterraneans vs Mediterraneans is playing into the Israeli lie that Jewish people are the true native people in Canaan and everyone else is an outside invader. When in reality some Jews are native to the area, just as the Palestinians are. But certainly not the 20th century neocolonial supremacist state of Israel.

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      23 hours ago

      … most Israeli Jews are Sephardim, Mizrahi, or mixed. For that matter, Ashkenazi Jews tend to vote for less genocide-happy parties in the Knesset. And on top of that, a significant portion of people in the Levant do not have a particularly different phenotype from Mediterranean Europeans.

      This is like when a bunch of people got up in arms over how ‘white’ the king of Jordan was. Like, fuck’s sake, what the fuck is this neo-orientalism?

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      3 days ago

      Uhm, you do realize that French, Spaniards, italians,… are also considered white nowadays and are mediterranian?

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      3 days ago

      Who?

      pretty sure they’re talking about the people of the two fictional countries in the movie