The author treats all Mizrahim as one group. But there really aren't that many commonalities between, say, Iraqi-Israelis on the one hand, and Yemenites on the other.  They don't look similar, their Hebrew pronunciation is very different, they come ...

I admire much of what NIF does, but unfortunately some of its grants have gone to explciitly anti-Zionist Israeli Arab groups.  Until NIF makes non-hostility to the state of Israel a criteria for its grants, I won't be a supporter.