“When he arrived, they threw rocks at him”.

 “ My dad’s father was a Tunisian, came from a poor family, he was a tailor, in 1952 the situation in Tunisia was getting worse and worse, so he decided to move to Israel, thinking life would get easier on him.

Unfortunately when he arrived there, the Jews there who were askenazi for the most rejected him because he was a man of color, he wanted to work on a train construction, when he arrived the first day they threw rocks at him and calling him derogatory names .

“After a year there, still not included in the community and rejected by all he decided to come to France and made his life there (worked his ass off, still faced discrimination but didn’t expect anything from non jewish people anyway.

For all his life this bitter feeling stayed with him, it was a big disappointment and a traumatic experience but no one would ever talk about how sefardi has been welcomed (or not welcomed) there

To this day we still face discrimination here and even in France sefardi stay together because askenazi look at us like we’re just a bunch of uneducated bedouin

I’ve suffered a lot about that and was really ashamed for a long time to be a Jew of color.”

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