[net.religion.jewish] Ben-Gurion, Chauvinist and Racist

martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo) (04/29/84)

	


	....many of these immigrants [Sefardim and oriental Jews] come to
	us without the most elementary knowledge, without a trace of
	Jewish or human [!] education.  There are two reasons for this. 
	First, they are the product of period of destruction, a period of
	world wars, a period of material and spiritual deterioration
	caused by a shake-up in all human institutions.  Second, they come
	from dark, oppressed, and exploited countries.
	
	
		-- from D. Ben Gurion, Eternal Israel (Tel Aviv: Ayanot,
		1964), p. 34 (Hebrew translation from Dissent, Winter
		1984, p. 84.
		
Goldah Meir used to make much worse statements.  (Many Sefardim believe
she insisted on using a Yiddish name to emphasize the difference between
herself and oriental Jews.)

Bialik is reputed to have said that he hated Arabs because they reminded 
him of Sefardim.

Shimon Peres may have lost the last election because of a tendency to
comdemn orientalization of Israeli society in his speeches.  The meaning
was clear to Sefardim.  In the 19th and 20th century European Anti-Semites
used to condemn the orientalization of European society caused by European
Jews.