Book Review: Are Mizrahim Still Marginal in Israel?

By Lyn Julius

Not the Enemy by Rachel Shabi, Yale University Press, UK, 2009 (264 pages). [Published in the USA as We Look Like the Enemy, Walker & Company.]

Today Mizrahim are not some repressed minority; they are generals, doctors, property developers and bank managers, and have held every high government post other than prime minister.

... intermarriage is running at 25 percent and the mixed Israeli family is fast become the norm.

Shabi presents the persecution of Mizrahi Jews in Arab countries largely as a backlash to Zionism.