They could’ve said the names of the hundreds of jewish cuisines that exist, and though that still doesn’t make it an “israeli” dish (lol) it would atleast have some connection however tenuous. But it’s a mistake expect anything from colonizers either way.

One of the more liberal orgs I volunteer with does a lot of international cultural exchange stuff, and the Israeli offerings are always low-key hilarious, and highkey hilarious when the countries their stuff is actually from are present. The adult Israelis tend to be aware and appropriately embarrassed, but the kids often still have a lot of brain worms and start accusing everyone of antisemitism when, for example, they side with the Austrians kids on where Weiner schnitzel comes from.

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