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Originally Posted by Skybird
Done. But it still puzzles me. when they cam as kids to Israel, then one is wondering what happened to them inside the Jewish state that they could turn out to become the modern archenemy of Judaism. One would have expected the opposite.
I know not much, if anything at all, about Israeli society. and maybe that is still too optimistic a self-assessment.
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The massive immigration of Russian and FSU members in the 80's and 90's consisted of some 35% to 65% non-Jews, depending on what you base your statistics on. These families mainly came for potentially economic reasons. We're talking about 100's of 1000's of people like this.
It's not difficult to find anti-semites in such a big slice of Russian, Ukrainian, Lithuainian, etc., natives. They stick to each other here. When concentrated enough in one neighborhood/suburb, their children would make up the vast majority of the area public school. Even when distributed throughout large areas, they have their own clubs, gangs, etc.
We knew this was happening when numerous Russian acquaintences we knew all began saying that most of the new Russians they're seeing at work, on the bus and at school were definitely not Jewish at all.