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Originally Posted by fango44
In the broadest sense, there are two different major groups of Jews, Sephardi (Israeli/Middle Eastern) and Ashkenazi (European). So, essentially, some are "white" and some are "of Arab persuasion" (though "Semitic", I think would be a more accurate term in this case).
Fango
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I'm not trying to turn this into a seminar, but to clarify, the Jews currently living in Israel are come from a mix which includes those whose ancestors have lived there since biblical times, Europeans who emigrated after World War II, Middle Easterners who were forced to leave Arab countries after 1948, "black" Jews from Ethiopia and other African countries, and others. Also, Arabs and Jews supposedly had a common ancestor (Abraham), so to refer to Arabs as "anti-semetic" is a contradiction in terms. Both peoples are semites.