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Article Evaluation: Ethiopian Jews in Israel

The first thing I noticed about this article is the abysmal grammar. For example, "Some agreed to "convert" to Judaism, which helped them regulated their personal status and remain in Israel."

The writing is all in a neutral tone, and there appears to be no bias. However, there is a lot of generalized information. For example, "Ethiopian Beta Israel are gradually becoming part of the mainstream Israeli society in religious life, military service (with nearly all males doing national service), education, and politics."

Some of the sources I found later on appear to be somewhat biased/one sided. This BBC article "Ethiopian Jews struggle in Israel" appears to have lead to some bias. It is definitely not completely neutral. While it mentions facts and details the struggles that many Ethiopians experienced in Israel, the same facts are not reflected in the Wikipedia article. It is also a news article, and not an academic source...

In addition to this I noticed that citation #21 is a broken link. This definitely needs to be updated. The entire Wikipedia article appears to have not been updated for 2-3 years, so there should be a bunch of edits made on the current state of Ethiopian Jews living in Israel.

On the Talk page, there is conversation debating the use of the name Beta Israel versus Jews. There is also some intense language being used, such as, "Don't be rediculous, how many Yemenite and Ashkenasi Jews came from Ethiopia? this is a clear."

The talk page is not productive for these very reasons. People are citing their own personal experiences and identifications as reasoning behind making edits.

Moroccan Jews Resources:

Kenbib, Mohammed. "Moroccan Jews and the Vichy regime, 1940–42." The Journal of North African Studies 19.4 (2014): 540-553.

Drucker, Peter. "“Disengaging from the Muslim Spirit” The Alliance Israélite Universelle and Moroccan Jews." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11.1 (2015): 3-23.

Semi, Emanuela Trevisan. "DOUBLE TRAUMA AND MANIFOLD NARRATIVES: JEWS'AND MUSLIMS'REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DEPARTURE OF MOROCCAN JEWS IN THE 1950s AND 1960s." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 9.1 (2010): 107-125.

Avi Picard (2018) Building the country or rescuing the people: Ben-Gurion's attitude towards mass Jewish immigration to Israel in the mid-1950s, Middle Eastern Studies, 54:3, 382-399, DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2017.1414698

Notes (start drafting your contribution):

Using the Mohammed Kenbib article I will discuss the impact that American's had on Moroccan Jews during the Vichy regime and WWII. The presence of American soldiers in Morocco created a rift between Moroccan Jews and French officials.

Using the Peter Drucker reading, I will discuss the influence that the French Alliance Israélite Universelle had on Moroccan Jews. They were urged to become members of French society, while they were further separated from their muslim counterparts as a result.

Using the Emanuela Trevisan Semi paper I will talk about the contributions of Jewish migration from Morocco to the Jewish diaspora and muslims perception of Jews. This paper uses first-hand accounts, so I can directly reference interviews.

Using the Avi Picard reading, I will discuss Ben-Gurion's influence on Jew's immigrating to Israel from Morocco. He was a Zionist who believed in mass aliya, which included thousands of Moroccan Jews. Many were not able to make the pilgrimage, and I will discuss the lasting impact that this has had on Moroccan Jews.

Final Contribution (Moroccan Jews)

You can find my contributions below and under the "History" section of the article.

Most Jews in Morocco lived in desolate areas during the late 1930s. This was in part due to increased taxation by the French protectorate. In 1936, a Jewish man, named Léon Blum, was appointed as prime minister of France. This gave some Moroccan Jews hope that they may be able to become French citizens at some point. Nearby Algerian Jews were granted right of passage to France, and this only furthered the desire of Moroccan Jews to embrace French culture to the extent of the Algerian Jews.