Israeli radio mapped drug types onto Jewish ethnic categories

Evidence

In Kol Yisrael’s published listeners’ guide, the story about this program makes explicit the ethnic component to both Dan’s and Chaim’s stories. Hashish use is ascribed primarily to oriental Jews, whereas morphine addiction is said to be an Ashkenazic complaint, the result of hospitalization. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 718

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the complaint-about-group-as-enemy theme in the sacrifice article, and to any work on how moral panics weaponize ethnic categories.
• SEED: Angle: how ‘which drug is associated with which ethnic group’ functions as a map of a society’s moral geography — hashish/Mizrahi vs. morphine/Ashkenazi reveals who is marked as the ‘oriental other’ within a Jewish state.