• Altofaltception@lemmy.worldEnglish
        102·
        2 years ago

        Is it because an influential group’s belief says that Israel winning in the middle east brings upon the rapture?

        • PugJesus@kbin.social
          81·
          2 years ago

          Yeah. I would’ve gone with a broader “Israel has influence over US politicians while Sudan does not”, but that’s the essence of it.

    • DdCno1@kbin.social
      104·
      2 years ago

      The largest demographic group in Israel, the Mizrahi, look indistinguishable from other Middle-Eastern people. You couldn’t tell them apart from Palestinians or any other Arabs. Bringing American notions of race into this is a very foolish endeavor.

      • Altofaltception@lemmy.worldEnglish
        54·
        2 years ago

        Mizrahi being the largest demographic is a recent change. Ashkenazi have historically been the largest.

        • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
          31·
          2 years ago

          There used to be way more Ashkenazi Jews up until the 40s or so. I wonder what happened.

          • Altofaltception@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            2 years ago

            Not true either.

            While the Israeli government does not track ethnicity of its Jewish population, many studies have been completed.

            Ashkenazi Jews were historically the majority of Jews in Israel. However as immigration from European countries and the USSR increased, the demographics changed. The majority of French Jews are Sephardic and many Jews from the USSR are Mizrahi.

            Of the 7 million Jewish Israelis, only 900,000 immigrated from the Arab world.

            So a completely false narrative peddled by someone who clearly has an agenda.