Israeli forces executed two unarmed Palestinians at point-blank range after they surrendered in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday.
The killings were captured on video, which showed the two men emerging from a building with their arms raised and their shirts lifted, clearly indicating they were unarmed and posed no threat to the soldiers.
The troops then shoot them dead.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the victims as Al-Muntasir Billah Mahmoud Qassem Abdullah, 26, and Yousef Ali Yousef Asa’sa, 37. They were shot in the Abu Dhahir neighborhood of Jenin.
That’s a factually wrong. The largest group, which is 40% of the Jewish Israeli population is Mizrahi Jews who originally came from Middle Eastern and North African communities.
Source (at the Jewish Virtual Library)
Maybe you should tell them they’re “factually wrong”.
I addition to the other comment you got, your source is specifically about Jews while mine clearly isn’t. Go tell them yourself.
Your source is about immigration (although that website is pretty yank), but the Mizrahi did not immigrate there, they were already there.
Either way, neither the immigrant groups nor the indigenous have much to do with the Holocaust. Last I read, less than 10% of Israel’s population is descended from Holocaust survivors. But don’t quote me on this, I’d need to find sources.
Fair enough - I don’t really know what are the numbers of Jewish People who already lived in the territory of Palestine that was became Israel at the time of the formation of that country.
This info is all I found some time ago because I was curious.
I knew that a lot of people from Russia had emigrated to Israel but the actual number was very surprising when I found out.
But yeah, either way we both agree on the core point which is that a large majority of Israelis are not descendants from people affected by the Holocaust.