Originally Posted by
Longbowman
It used to be a very serious issue, and I could write paragraphs about black-Sephardi Jewish relationships in India and the Caribbean, Sephardi-Ashkenazi relationships in London and Amsterdam, Yekke-Galitsyaner relationships in Germany and New York, the Israeli black panthers, etc - but that isn't as relevant anymore. In Israel, 35% of Jews are 'mixed' from two or more Jewish subgroups, and the differences have largely eroded to be replaced by an Israeli Jewish identity, although some ultra-Orthodox groups in particular maintain homogeneity, and there is still a little bit of racism, as there is all over the world.
Two notable exceptions: Ethiopian Jews are not as assimilated as other groups, probably because they're recent immigrants, and Soviet Jews - in the 1990s hundreds of thousands poured into Israel including a lot of non-Jewish white people who wanted a better standard of life. Israeli Jews disliked them intensely particularly Mizrakhim. Many never learned Hebrew, didn't integrate, etc etc. See it as how American Whites view Hispanics.
An ad from Shas (2013). Shas is a right-wing party with a Mizrakhi base:
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