Avirama Is Either Ignorant, A Racist Or, Both?

In the settlements, which Menachem Begin promised to nurture and expand, lived Hanan Porat and his friends, Jews of European origin in knitted skullcaps. The average Shas supporter, who suffered from their racism in the state religious schools, felt alienated and excluded.

is what she published in Haaretz. She was trying to paint Sefaradi support for the settling of the Land of Israel as some Ashkenazi rite.

Idiot.

Sefaradim have always been in the forefront of the enterprise, do not suffer discrimination in our communities, do not feel alienated or excluded and love the land more than we Ashkenazim do.

And she seems to get it, while continuing her florid prose:

Now most Shas voters no longer go to the synagogue in the morning and to soccer games in the afternoon. They are active "settlers," or brothers, cousins or friends of "settlers." Their wives wear headscarves, their children are Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox for all intents and purposes, and they are all right-wingers.