A new dissident group calling itself “Panthers” has surfaced here. Unlike the Black Panthers of Jerusalem, it is directed not so much against poverty as against the domination of Jews of European and Western origin in Israeli life. Spokesmen for the group held a press conference in a local coffee house and unveiled their insignia which is not a panther but a sign with the Hebrew word, “Enough.”
“Enough of discrimination, enough of imposing the Eastern European Jewish way of life on Israel whether its eating habits or its way of pronouncing Hebrew,” the new Panthers said. The group includes several Ashkenazi (European) Jews as well as Sephardim (Orientals) and not all of them are from the deprived segments of society. Some are wage earners. They claimed their aim was to change the attitude of the “Establishment” toward the deprived and underprivileged.
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