Tel Aviv has been hit
by the most violent protests in its recent history after more than 1,000
Israelis took to the streets in the city's south to demand the deportation of
African immigrants and asylum seekers.
These people would not be immigrants or refugees if Israel and
America had left their countries alone rather than create war zones to steal
wealth. Many of them are Jewish but their problem is they are cursed Jews, the “children
of Ham” and unworthy of aliyah. Not to mention, they simply are not white.
Although this article highlights the predominant racist attitude of Israelis, it must also be noted that there are also demonstrations from those who are against this treatment of the Africans and this inhuman treatment. “We are all immigrants” seems to be their main slogan Although their KKK poster is very telling of the division to be found amongst Israelis on this issue.
Although this article highlights the predominant racist attitude of Israelis, it must also be noted that there are also demonstrations from those who are against this treatment of the Africans and this inhuman treatment. “We are all immigrants” seems to be their main slogan Although their KKK poster is very telling of the division to be found amongst Israelis on this issue.
Above: Israelis of the left who oppose these policies.
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June
8, 2012
Israel announced on Thursday its plan
to create massive detention centers including over 20,000 tents to hold African
migrants before they are deported.
There are tens of thousands of
undocumented African migrants in Israel, many of whom are asylum seekers.
Anti-immigrant sentiment has been on
full display in recent protests in Tel Aviv. And Interior Minister Eli
Yishai told the newspaper Maariv, "The infiltrators along with the
Palestinians will quickly bring us to the end of the Zionist dream."
NGOs have criticized the plan to deport
the migrants saying that they will be deported to dangerous situations.
One South Sudanese national, a father
of two who's resided in Israel for two years, told Haaretz, "I really
don't know what to do." Fearing violence, he added, "It's
sending people and families to a dangerous place. I'm afraid to go back there
with the kids; will they have a future in such place?
Left-wing protestors against these immigration policies raise a sign picturing a member of the Klu Klux
Klan (KKK) in opposition to a right-wing demonstration against African
migrants in the city of Tel Aviv on May 30, 2012 (AFP Photo / David
Buimovitch)
Israel's interior minister said on
Friday he hoped to soon start moving tens of thousands of illegal African
migrants from Tel Aviv and elsewhere to a detention camp being built and a
planned "tent city."
An Israeli court cleared the way on
Thursday for the deportation of an estimated 1,500 South Sudanese, after ruling
that their lives were no longer threatened in their homeland.
Interior Minister Eli Yishai told
public radio 40,000 Sudanese and Eritreans were next in his sights.
"There are still about 15,000 from
north Sudan and some 35,000 from Eritrea," he said. "I am not allowed
to get them out at the moment."
Israeli protestors wave banners and Israeli flags during a right-wing
demonstration against African migrants in the city of Tel Aviv on May
30, 2012 (AFP Photo / David Buimovitch)
Israel’s Defense Ministry announced
Thursday that it will erect between 20,000-25,000 tents for African migrants at
various detention centers by the end of the year.
According to an official statement, the
Defense Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces will build the tent cities in
five different detention centers within a matter of months. Once built, the
centers will be run by the Israel Prison Service.
Three of those detention centers will
be built near the Ketziot prison in the near future, and will be connected to
water, electric and sewage infrastructures which the Defense Ministry have been
building over the last several weeks.
The objective of the plan, according to
the ministry, is to ensure that all African migrants who enter Israel will be
directly transferred to a detention center where they will stay for long
periods of time, in order to prevent their entry to Israeli cities.
An African migrant stands as a right-wing protestors walk past holding
Israeli flags and banners during a demonstration against African
migrants in the city of Tel Aviv on May 30, 2012 (AFP Photo / David
Buimovitch)
Rejecting a petition by human rights groups that had delayed the interior ministry's deportation order of 1 April, the Jerusalem district court ruled the state was not obligated to extend de facto asylum to the estimated 1,500 migrants from South Sudan. [...]
Rejecting a petition by human rights groups that had delayed the interior ministry's deportation order of 1 April, the Jerusalem district court ruled the state was not obligated to extend de facto asylum to the estimated 1,500 migrants from South Sudan. [...]
The Israeli government sees the
migrants as an economic and demographic threat to the country's already
ethnically strained population of 7.8 million, and anti-African street protests
in urban centres have turned increasingly violent.
But while Israel says the vast majority
came illegally to work, humanitarian agencies argue many of the migrants should
be considered as refugees with asylum rights.
Many migrants who take refuge in Israel are fleeing from war or persecution in their countries of origin, but very few are granted official refugee status by the government. Many live on temporary visas and subsist on menial jobs.
African immigrants have become the
target of many protests recently in Israeli society. They are blamed for rising
crime and violence in the country.
All of the migrant workers caught by
the Israeli authorities so far have been transferred to Saharonim detention
center which has a capacity of 2,000 spaces. The Interior Ministry predicts the
center will reach maximum capacity next month and a currently working on
expanding it to accommodate 5,400.
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An Israeli police officer arrests a woman during a right wing
demonstration against African migrants in the city of Tel Aviv on May
30, 2012 (AFP Photo / David Buimovitch)
A migrant home was torched on Sunday night, trapping 10 Eritrean migrant workers inside, two of whom were injured. Graffiti was found at the scene that read “leave the neighborhood,” raising suspicions of arson.
A migrant home was torched on Sunday night, trapping 10 Eritrean migrant workers inside, two of whom were injured. Graffiti was found at the scene that read “leave the neighborhood,” raising suspicions of arson.
Tel Aviv has played host to
anti-immigrant demonstrations over the last couple of weeks, thousands taking
to the streets demanding the expulsion of all asylum-seekers and immigrants.
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