Israeli radio’s nationalizing mission excluded and stereotyped Mizrahi Jews.

Evidence

Yet Israeli radio, which presented itself as a prime agent of nationalization, in fact remained an Ashkenazi (i.e., eastern and central European) preserve in the form and content of programming. It made relatively little effort to reach Mizrahi (lit. “oriental”; that is, Middle Eastern and North African) as opposed to Ashkenazi immigrants, and its programs were far less likely to be heard by the former than the latter. Finally, although some of Israeli radio’s programming displayed compassion for oriental Jewish immigrants, sympathy often coexisted with stereotyped images, unfavorable contrasts between Mizrahim and Ashkenazim, and associations between Arabic-speaking Jews and the Arab enemy. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 682

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Mizrahi (lit. ‘oriental’) — Middle Eastern and North African Jews — and Ashkenazi as the operative ethnic categories.
• ADDENDUM: Pairs with the article on moral panics over ‘immodest’ dress: both trace how a majority group’s cultural signaling encodes class/identity/political hierarchy — here, Ashkenazi radio vs Mizrahi listeners.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 682