Israel's Black Panthers : The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth

"Compelling . . . offers a richly detailed account of Israel's Black Panthers in the 1970s.”-Haaretz "Forces us to confront the sometimes vast distance between constitutional aspiration and social and political practice."-Jewish Book CouncilThe powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel. 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. This book draws on archival documents and interviews with elderly activists to capture the movement's history and reveal l