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But is it really so different if we replace race with religion? Israel doesn't recognize people who join the religion- it's effectively based on birth just as much as race.

We have a government over a people that determines the rights of each person based on who their parents were. That's the core concept that I, for one, am opposed to.

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>But is it really so different if we replace race with religion?

They aren't completely replacing race with religion, many Palestinians are black and my understanding is Israel is quite racist towards its black Jewish population as well. European Settler colonialism has historically been quite racist.

How many and what % of Palestinians are black? How many and what % of Israelis are black?

By black do you mean having darker skin tones?

If so, many Jewish Israelis are black - as are many Palestinians - and not just those that came to Israel from Ethiopia. Also, many Israelis are white (as in light skinned) as are many Palestinians.

The average Israeli is Mizrahi (of North African / Middle Eastern origin).

I'm not sure why you think any of this is relevant to the point being made, but since you seem to be actually ignorant of the matter: blackness is a racial identifier, not a matter of skin tone. Skin tone is certainly part of racialization, but regardless of how dark or light someone's skin is, they may or may not be racialized as black, and therefore may or may not be subject to anti-black racism.

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