American support for Israel might falter if Israel’s Jews were visibly Mizrahi

Evidence

It would be revealing – a “crucial experiment” – to see how robust American support for Israel would remain were the latter’s Jewish population to become overwhelmingly and visibly Mizrahi (Middle Eastern and North African Jews) rather than Ashkenazi (East European) descendant. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 475

Categorization

• QUESTION: A pointed hypothetical — worth chasing the claim that US Zionism’s depth depends on racial proximity of Israeli Jews to whiteness.