Are some arabs and other nationalities racist towards their own kind for being darker?

Hello, I am a Palestinian American and I recently went to a get together at a friends house (who are Iraqi/Kurds). I have tann skin with dark brown hair and brown eyes (called pretty many times) while these Iraqis dont even look arabian, they are all pale with blue eyes and they look like they are European. I speak the same language as them but I noticed in private they were pointing at me and laughing about me because of my skin color and calling me "pakistani" and "hindu" (even though they knew I was a palestinian muslim) all because I was darker than them! This man even had the nerve to come up to me and ask me if my dad was arabic and if he was born in this country and he even said, "r u sure ur arabic?? ur too dark". It really hurt me because I have issues with my skin color and I wish it was lighter. Is this more common than we think?? It also hurt me because they were stripping my cultural identity away from me and that I was not "white" enough to be arabic.