A most disgusting discovery made by Yid With Lid, Little Green Footballs and Michelle Malkin, it seems that the State Department funded a program at the UC that touts segregation of Israeli Jews….

The State Department will begin walking this back, and they’ll no doubt insist that any applications from Israeli Jews will be treated fairly – treated fairly by the very same people who wrote an explicitly anti-Semitic application in the first place. So in addition to having a perfect example of institutional anti-Semitism, we’ll no doubt be treated to a paradigm case of nudge-nudge wink-wink “no bias against Israeli Jews here” diplomatic pretense.

So nothing really changed… Real change will only happen when the players involved are removed.

Israel National News via Michelle Malkin:A U.S. State Department-funded University of California program which provides business training for residents of…

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Even though the eliminated text does not eliminate all Jews. . .only those not from an Arab ethnicity, the fact that the State Dept. issued an immediate retraction indicates that the choice of wording was specifically designed to elimate Jewish applicants.

You can split hairs over this for the rest of the night, but the message was unmistakable: Jews need not apply. That the State Department reversed this after their discrimination was exposed only confirms their original intent.

State Department subsidized No Israeli Jews Allowed program

is not the same as

limited to Israeli Arab citizens

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Now, I’m not one to carry water for the State Dept. . .. but there are many Israeli-Arab Jews too. As a matter of fact, a significant percentage of the Israeli Jewish population are from Arab origins . I recommend the film by Pierre Rehov, “The Silent Exodus”.

In 1948 nearly one million Jews lived in Arab lands. But In barely twenty years, they have become forgotten fugitives, expelled from their native lands, forgotten by history and where the victims themselves have hidden their fate under a cloak of silence.

A people whom legend have always associated with “wandering” many of these Jews from Arab lands had lived there for thousands of years and accepted their fate, through good times and bad times.

But 1948, the beginning of their exodus, also saw the birth of the State of Israel.

And, while the Arab armies were preparing to invade the young refugee-country, the survivors of the Shoah were piling up in rickety boats. Meanwhile a few hundred thousand Arabs from Palestine were getting ready to flee their homes, convinced that they would return as winners and conquerors.

Soon – by a terrible twist of fate they, as well, began to fill up refugee camps and passed on their refugee status to new generations.

The Jews, however, did not receive refugee status.

They had just rediscovered the land of their birthright.

And if they came from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq or from Yemen, if they had lost everything, even their relatives and their cemeteries, they were ready to rebuild their lives in the West and for many – in Israel – and try to forget their past.

Without ever asking for compensation or the right of return, or even wishing that their story be told…

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Edot HaMizrah (communities of the East) are Jews descended from the Jewish communities of the Middle East. Mizrahim today reject this (or any) umbrella description and prefer to identify themselves by their particular country of origin, or that of their immediate ancestors, e.g. “Iraqi Jew”, “Tunisian Jew”, “Persian Jew”, etc.

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Even though the eliminated text does not eliminate all Jews. . .only those not from an Arab ethnicity, the fact that the State Dept. issued an immediate retraction indicates that the choice of wording was specifically designed to elimate Jewish applicants.
This immediate reaction should result in further investigation and significant repercussions – just as if “African Americans” or “Hispanic Americans” or “Native Americans” or any other minority were singled out and informed “need not apply”.