Israeli Black Panthers, including Charlie Biton, protesting on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, May 1,

Israeli Black Panthers, including Charlie Biton, protesting on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, May 1, 1973. (Moshe Milner/GPO)“Back in the 1970s, the deep socioeconomic divide between Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews in Israel led to a massive protest movement and the rise of the Israeli Black Panthers (972mag.com) A newly approved official civics textbook in Israel portrays the movement as violent and criminal…”“In order for young people to form a balanced judgement, government violence — which is somehow missing from the textbook’s description — has to be added. Government violence is the violence of the pen pushers. People in suits and ties sitting in air-conditioned rooms, who with a stroke of a pen liquidate a hundred thousand people with the pretense of having ringworm (wikipedia with a stroke of a pen they declare war on “the enemy” and send people to their death. This is a silent form of violence that is not widely perceived as criminal, but is in fact far more violent.”“The definition laid out in the textbook assails a group of people who sought to defend their rights; it essentially runs counter to the very basis of democracy, considering that democracy calls for accountability where there is none. This does not surprise me. Until this very day, the Israeli establishment and the political system have been abusing groups of innocent people simply because they belong to a certain group. Even before the arrival of these groups here, in 1949, there was a campaign of mudslinging, demonization and delegitimization against a group of people who had not yet reached Israel, through vilifying publications by Aryeh Gelblum (“The primitiveness of these people is unsurpassable. As a rule, they are only slightly more advanced than the Arabs, Negroes and Berbers in their countries”) and his ilk. This racist slander has continued until today.” -- source link

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