Israel’s Black Panthers-The Radicals Who Punctured A Nation’s Founding Myth

Asaf Elia-Shalev
Israel’s Black Panthers:
The Radicals Who Punctured A Nation’s Founding Myth
Co-hosted by 5400 Club

Monday, November 25

12:30 PM

In-person event with virtual speaker

Israel’s Black Panthers tells the story of the young and impoverished Moroccan Israeli Jews who challenged their country’s political status quo and rebelled against the ethnic hierarchy of Israeli life in the 1970s.

Inspired by the American group of the same name, the Black Panthers mounted protests and a yearslong political campaign for the rights of Mizrahim, or Jews of Middle Eastern ancestry. 

They managed to rattle the country’s establishment and change the course of Israel’s history through the mass mobilization of a Jewish underclass.

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