\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHey yo real question: who do poor Israeli Jews identify as the secret power behind an economic conspiracy keeping them down?
Or is settler colonialism the valve that makes sure you never get there so it\u2019s always externalized?
\n(\u2018Merica!)
\nI\u2019m sure somewhere in a world of 14-17 million Jews there\u2019s a poor Jewish person who believes there\u2019s an international Jewish conspiracy, but only the elites get to be in on it.
\nFor that matter, there have probably been cases where (for the very loose and non-deliberate definition of\u00a0\u201cJewish conspiracy\u201d) this was true- like if all the wealthy and middle-class Jews moved out of a Jewish neighborhood when poor nonjews started moving in, leaving the people too poor to move cut off from neighborhood networking opportunities, because they were based not on deliberate religious discrimination but just helping out the people you know.
\nYeah based on the replies I might have framed it wrong, I\u2019m not looking for like, the Jewish version of big overarching theories, but like who\u2019s the poor Israeli version of \u201cthe guys who own the apartment building and always raise rent, own the corner store and only hire their cousins not us, who generally keep us down\u201d, cause it can\u2019t be \u201cthe Jews\u201d. \u201cThe Russians\u201d? \u201cThe Galicians\u201d?
\nFor non-Ashkenazi Jews it\u2019s \u201cthe Ashkenazis,\u201d but that\u2019s obviously just kicking the can a little bit.
\u2026I\u2019ve never actually known any Jews to go for \u201cwe are kept down by the evil elite minority\u201d thinking.\u00a0 \u201cWe are kept down by the prejudices of the local majority\u201d is much more popular, for obvious reasons.\u00a0
No real idea how this plays out in Israel, to address your actual question.\u00a0 My best guess is \u201cit doesn\u2019t.\u201d\u00a0 That particular bit of ethnocultural myth isn\u2019t universal, even if it\u2019s popular.
@tropylium > > I don\u2019t think this specific thing has to be a societal universal really
Yeah, it really might not be! Bcuz (see first reblog) settler colonialism! Like America! Cause you can\u2019t be hopelessly stuck in a no-way-out pit if you always have the option of socially approved adventure homesteading! And the real mudsill hewer-of-wood-and-drawer-of-water poor aren\u2019t Israeli poor anyway.
Who does the average poor member of the Israeli economy blame? The Jews! Because the average poor member of the Israeli economy is Palestinian!
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