‘They’re not like neo-Nazis’: Inside the Israeli movement fighting Jewish-Arab intermarriage

"People aren’t really aware that Lehava’s activists are Mizrahi teens from poor neighborhoods in Jerusalem. By the way, in many cases, when I asked why they had joined Lehava, the answer was, “I knew a girl who went out with an Arab.” It’s not pleasant to say this, but statistically, in Jerusalem, working-class Mizrahim meet more Arabs. Let’s say, one of the workers in a supermarket starts up with a checkout girl. That’s less likely to happen to an Ashkenazi girl who’s a university student".