Race In Eretz-Israel

On May 14, 1948, the first Jewish state in 2,000 years was established at an afternoon ceremony in the Tel Aviv Art Museum. The words announced by the then Jewish Agency Chairman Ben-Gurion were “We hereby proclaim the establishment of the Jewish state in Palestine, to be called Israel.” The next day, the Arab-Israeli War broke out.

For ages the Jewish population did not have a place to call home. They had been wandering around deserts, were once slaves in Egypt, but didn’t have any land to their name. Following the Holocaust, after many Jews had been persecuted by Hitler and the Nazis, a good portion of the overall amount of Jews in the world let alone Europe had been exterminated. As a result, Harry Truman and the UN suggested Israel, a homeland for the Jews. Tensions had been growing throughout the beginning of the 20th Century regarding the Palestinian area in the Middle East. This area was off to the side of Asia, near Africa. When the Jews and Arabs were offered part of this land, war broke out and still continues today. Even though a war happened as a result

“Those who had no choice but to flee for their survival and the survival of their families became refugees, seeking safe havens in other parts of Europe and beyond. At first, Jews were allowed to settle in neighboring countries such as Belgium, France, and Czechoslovakia, but as German occupation spread across the continent, these countries were no longer safe and refugees became increasingly desperate to escape. The life of Jewish refugees was described in this way: “[The refugees] were welcomed nowhere and could be assimilated nowhere. Once they had left their homeland they remained homeless, once they had left their state they remained stateless; once they had been deprived of their human rights they were right-less, the scum of the earth” (America, 2017).

David Ben-Gurion (the head of the world Zionist Organization) made Israel a nation-state, in may of 1948. The jews had a goal to create a homeland in the Palestine area for many years, this goal grew after WW2. The violence towards the Jewish in WW2, the united nations decided what the jews had control of. They decided that Palestine was going to be split into sections, one for the jews, one for the Arabs, and another for the jerusalem and bethlehem. A vote was taken, and soon everyone signed it. The Arab-Israeli war of 1948 was resulted in Israel's independence. The war was between the Arabs and israel. There was tension between the jews and the muslim Arab for control of “their” land. The dividing of Palestine caused the tension to end and civil war erupted. This caused many palestine Arabs to flee and become refugees and 700 000 jews flee to Israel, because they were expelled from their country. Israel's independence caused tension to form and created more problems for the

Religious connection, Zionism, the holocaust and anti-Semitism were all reasons that Israel was created in 1948. Today Israel is hated by many Middle Easterns. They had to defend their country the first day they were established. They have a strong relationship with

Throughout the life and experiences of her family, friends and herself in the chaos of World War II period, Brodkin witnessed Jewish progress of assimilation to white society. Jews suffered several prejudiced policies such as anti-Semitism, anti-European racism, anti-working class, anti-immigrant sentiments and so on. However, Jews realized that because their racial identity shared similar white-related characteristics with Caucasian ancestry and white, they had much freedom than blacks and was not restricted to access social welfare. This confirmed authors Michael Omi & Howard Winant suggested that racial formation is socially constructed which explicitly instituted in Naturalization Act of 1790 that gave privileges to

Before anyone can comprehend the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one must understand the theory of Zionism. Theodor Herzl was the first Jew to have the idea of creating Israel. He was a witness of the Dreyfus affair, in which a Jewish officer was accused of treason, solely because he was Jewish. Herzl also witnessed mobs of people shouting “Death to the Jews”. This was the last straw for Herzl. Herzl decided that there needed to be a change so he made it one of his life goals to create a successful movement in which Jews founded a Jewish state. One of his main arguments was that discrimination against Jews could be eliminated if they had their own Jewish State, and so modern Zionism was formed. The idea of modern Zionism is so pertinent to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because much of the reason for Israel becoming a Jewish state is behind the fact that Jews were perpetrated throughout the years before Zionism even came into play of the situation.

On my visit to Adas Israel, I felt safe and welcomed into the Jewish community, even though I am not Jewish myself. Although, being with my Jewish friend may have caused me to not stand out as much, opposed to if I had attended morning prayers alone. Although African Americans comprise certain forms Judaism, majority of them are Black Hebrew Israelites (also called Black Hebrews). Black Hebrews do follow and participate in Jewish rituals. However, they are not considered by the Jewish community as being “Jewish”, unless they have undergone conversion by an official sector of Judaism. While majority of congregation members carried on throughout the service as if I didn’t exist, a few still seemed skeptical of my participation and presence in their sacred

Race and ethnicity have been differentially used and deployed to create hierarchies of belonging and exclusion by who were given the most privileges, who were given the most rights, and even who were the better race of whiteness. Frye brings up the debate on Jews’ racial identity. It begins with the normative classification. He briefly insists that the American policy of becoming a citizen at the time was mainly based on whiteness. Jews were treated as “free white persons” who came to the United States through occupying the naturalization law. Over time whiteness has become the group called Caucasian. Races are classified into categories where whiteness is continuously on the higher rung of the ladder while all the other races followed. This

In our society now, we are able to create situations where people do not know openly say a race is in an oppressive situation but really are. For example housing systems and ghettos work in this way . It is easy to see the difference between your average white dominated and black dominated neighborhoods. In these small-underfunded neighborhoods that we force blacks into we put them in situations where their opportunities are limited. Or another example when Muslims or Arabs are “randomly selected” at airports, or when blacks are automatically targeted as criminal suspects by cops.

In the area of health specifically, Ethiopian Jews have faced immense complications. This paper will answer the following questions: How do Ethiopian Jews’ religious and cultural perceptions on health and healing influence their daily lives in Israel? What are the causes and effects of exclusion from Israeli culture and in what ways does this impact their health outcomes? This topic is extremely important as Israeli officials work to try to decrease the disparity among citizens of Israel and as Israeli physicians try to understand the stories and beliefs of the Ethiopian Jewish community. In Israel today, Ethiopian Jewish immigrants have disproportionately negative health outcomes in multiple health issue areas that can be attributed to the effects of both discrimination, and differential practice and

The nation of Israel was originally a nation of nomadic people who were isolated and oppressed. After the horrific events of the Holocaust some Jewish people made homes in Israel. The people who made their homes came to be known as Israelites. They were given this name because the nation was named after Israel who was originally known as Jacob (Fisher, 2005). The nation of Israel has always been in a state of disorder and confusion, and in 1947 the United Nations gave Israel to the Jewish people who declared it an independent state in 1948. Israel’s Arabic neighbors did not support this decision and war followed. Battles are still being fought today. Tension also exists within the Jewish community in Israel. There have been many Jewish people who have settled in Israel. These settlers have diverse backgrounds. Some are orthodox and some are not which can bring tension. Even

With half of the Israeli nation being split into Arab or Jewish, people do feel a huge amount of aggression towards one another. The war between to the sides of the country results in wars that will never be solved; the wars create problems among its people. With the problems among its people, it is hard for citizens to live their everyday life. Women do feel the most hardship in wanting to escape the country. All of these factors result into

In the years just after World War II, Zionism (the desire to rebuild a Jewish national presence in the Promised Land) became a popular Jewish cause all around the world. Many Jews who were not practicing Judaism at all with religion became involved with the establishment of the State of Israel. Even today, many years after the successful founding of the State of Israel, there are Jews whose only real tie to Judaism is their belief in Zionism and their support for the State of Israel. They are joined by many Jews who are members of synagogues and support a modern Jewish religious movement, but who also find their prime identity as Jews in the Zionist cause.

In the late 1950’s when Gamel Abdel Nasser was president of Egypt, my grandparents lived in Alexandria. Being that my great grandparents were from Jerusalem, my grandparents were extremely proud to be born and raised as a Jew in Egypt. Around the age of 18 years old, my grandparents and their families were kicked out of Egypt because of their religion. Nasser insisted that all Jews flee Egypt immediately or they would be thrown in jail. Since my family had no other choice but to leave their home country, they decided to come to New York to try and start a new life. Although it was extremely difficult for them to start over in a foreign country without any property or money, they moved to the U.S. with hopes to become successful.