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Who were Israel's Black Panthers?

Israeli-American journalist Asaf Elia-Shalev wrote a book on the "radicals who punctured a nation's founding myth."

In 1971 in the slums of West Jerusalem, a group of young Moroccan Jews established the Israeli Black Panthers to fight for equality Israel’s marginalized community of Middle Eastern, or Mizrachi, Jews.

While initially focused strictly on domestic issues, the group eventually came to find parallels between the mistreatment of Mizrachim and the Palestinia…

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