ABSTRACT
The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow 2 (hereinafter, the Rainbow) is an organization of second- and third-generation Mizrahim. 3 Established in March 1997 in a conference attended by more than 300 people, who came from all parts of the country and from the entire political spectrum, the Rainbow was based from the outset on two primary principles, which can be described as “universalism” and “particularism.”
The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow [in Hebrew, Hakeshet Hademokratit Hamizrahit] is an apolitical, non-parliamentary social movement whose goal is to affect the current public agenda with the aim of bringing a radical change into Israeli society as a whole and to its institutions. The organization is Mizrahi … in its goals, universal in its beliefs and open to all those who identify with its values. This group strives to become a mass movement and to bring about a meaningful change within Israeli society by implementing values of democracy, human rights, social justice, equality, and multiculturalism (https://www.ha-keshet.org.il/files/about.html" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">www.ha-keshet.org.il/files/about.html, my emphasis). 4
