Racism in Israel: Targeting Mizrahi Jews, Ethiopian Jews, and Russian Immigrants

Racism in Israel goes beyond targeting the Palestinian Arab community, extending to include broad segments of the Jewish community, especially immigrants who came to historical Palestine since the beginning of the Zionist project.

Mizrahi Jews, who immigrated to Palestine in the late 1940s and 1950s, suffered from systematic discriminatory policies by the Israeli establishment.

Ethiopian Jews, known as 'Falasha Jews', also face racial discrimination, in addition to immigrants from the former Soviet Union countries who arrived in the early 1990s.

The Israeli Ministry of Religions presented a bill that grants Jewish religious courts broad powers to verify the 'Jewish validity' of individuals, allowing them to make binding decisions for all authorities.

This legislation may impose pressures on individuals and their families, enhancing exclusion and discrimination based on religious and sectarian grounds, and reflects the Israeli establishment's racist approach.