Nima Yamini
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a Middle Eastern Jew.
You have a South Arctic Jew, like a Mediterranean Jew.
And in Israel, most of the Jews are not Ashkenazi.
They're not, you know, German, Polish looking.
I made a comment once and I said that in Israel, you've never had a Mizrahi Jew that looks like me as prime minister.
Now that's a very sensitive subject for Israel and I don't need to go back into it anymore.
You know what I'm saying?
Like that's something that I've sort of dropped.
It was last November that I brought this up, but that got, I got a lot of pushback.
One part of it.
The other part of it stems from me saying that the Jewish community is horrible at PR.
And many Jews, if I say to them, hey, we got 10 European Jews talking about Iran and Israel at this Jewish conference, then they cancel me, the one Iranian Jew.
I have an empathy for both countries.
I actually try to bridge both countries.
And I think a lot of the European Jews are trying to do that too.
But it doesn't exactly build trust when you cancel the one Iranian Jew who has a large following of Iranians.
I get a lot of trust from Iranian Jews, similar to how you would get with British.
We have a lot of things in common.
I'm Iranian.
My faith is Jewish.