FACT CHECK · JEWS FROM ARAB LANDS
Claim: Israelis are mostly European or Russian
FALSETHE ANSWER
Pew 2016: 48% of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi or Sephardi, roots in Arab lands, Iran and North Africa; 45% Ashkenazi. Iraq's Jews lived there 2,600 years; the Farhud pogrom, 1941, killed ~180.
SOURCE
Pew Research, Israel's Religiously Divided Society, Mar 2016
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- “Mostly european”
- “White europeans”
- “Came from poland”
- “Yt europeans”
- “Brought for labor”
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