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by rudimental 1553 days ago
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).

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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.