tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35151537171913455602024-03-08T15:14:12.399-08:00Israel's Treatment of African Refugees & Asylum SeekersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515153717191345560.post-67252773848099890672012-06-19T07:41:00.000-07:002012-07-20T08:56:53.023-07:00African Refugees in Israel - Appel for Change<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>Concerned and Frustrated about the treatment of African refugees in Israel, US-based organizations working on migration and racial justice have issues a petition, along with allies in Israel.</i><br />
<i>This blog serves to provide information and updates on the changing situation and repression of African refugees and asylum seekers in Israel. We will post new information, analysis, blogs and news media reports that shed new light on the situation. Please send us your feedback and/comments - we hope to continue to engage you and your voices to leverage change. <br />Nunu Kidane, Priority Africa Network</i><br />
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<i>June 21, 2012 - Haaretz </i><br />
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<i><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/new-internet-site-identifies-employers-who-hire-african-migrants.premium-1.439999" target="_blank">New Internet site identifies employers who hire African migrants'Blacks - back to Africa' proclaims site; 80 employers and landlords of migrants named so far. </a></i><br />
<i>A new Internet site titled "Migrants - Opposing Migrant Infiltration Into Our Country" is disclosing information about employers and landlords who offer work and housing to African migrants.<br />The site claims to oppose race-baiting and declares that "each of our writers accepts full responsibility for his copy"; however, captions and phrases such as "blacks - back to Africa" set a menacing tone. </i><br />
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June 19, 2012 - IRIN Global<a href="http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95685/SOUTH-SUDAN-ISRAEL-Returnees-complain-of-harsh-treatment-in-Israel" target="_blank"><br />South Sudan - Israel: Returnees complain of harsh treatment in Israel</a><i><br />Juba - The first batch of 700 South Sudanese have returned to Juba from Israel, as part of a policy to deport Africans and protect the state's Jewish identity. Israel and its military ally South Sudan, which gained independence in July 2011 after decades of civil war, both claim that the process has been one of "voluntary repatriation". </i><br />
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June 18, 2012 - <b>New York Times</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/world/middleeast/crackdown-on-african-immigrants-tugs-at-israels-soul.html?emc=eta1" target="_blank">Crackdown on Migrants Tugs at Soul of Israelis</a><br />
<i>One by one, immigration inspectors escorted the migrants out of a dilapidated building into an alley teeming with African-run stores and hair salons. Then, they were led onto a waiting bus, in the first steps on the way to deportation to their native South Sudan. </i><br />
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June 8, 2012 - Los Angeles Times<br />
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<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/06/poll-jewish-israelis-african-migrants.html" target="_blank">Poll: 52% of Jewish Israelis say illegal African migrants a 'cancer' </a><br />
<i>Six hundred Israelis were polled, including Arab Israelis, who were much less likely to object to the African immigrants. Only 19% of Arab Israelis agreed that African illegal immigrants were a "cancer" and only 25% backed the Tel Aviv protests against them</i>.<br />
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June 8, 2012<br />
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<a href="http://www.rt.com/news/israel-african-migrant-tent-330/" target="_blank">Tent camp or deportation: Choice for African migrants in Israel</a><br />
<i>The Israeli Defense Ministry has announced plans to erect up to 25,000
tents at five detention centers to prevent African migrants from
entering cities. The African migrants coming into the country will stay in these centers for an extended period. </i><br />
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June 6, 2012<br />
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<a href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/black-migrants-white-israel" target="_blank">Black Migrants in White Israel</a><br />
<i>The race riots in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem pointed up the virulently anti-Black nature of Israeli prejudice. Carrying sticks and stones, the crowds shouted “Blacks Out!” and “Infiltrators get out of our homes.” A veteran reporter said only a strong police presence prevented lynchings. Some of the hate speech sounded quite “American” – such as the Interior Minister’s statement that Israel belongs to “the white man.”</i><br />
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June 4, 2012<br />
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4238331,00.html" target="_blank">Haifa threatens businesses that employ African migrants</a><br />
<i>Municipality tells local business owners they must fire illegal
workers or risk losing license. Employer: In the end they'll have to
roam Israel like gypsies </i><br />
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June 4, 2012<br />
<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-orders-swift-deportation-of-25-000-illegal-african-migrants-1.434190" target="_blank">Netanyahu orders swift deportation of 25,000 illegal African migrants</a><br />
<i>Orders acceleration of holding facility construction for citizens of
Eritrea and Sudan who cannot be deported due to conditions in their home
countries. </i><br />
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June 4, 2012<br />
<a href="http://972mag.com/eritrean-apartment-set-on-fire-in-jerusalem-four-injured/47474/" target="_blank">Eritrean apartment set on fire in Jerusalem; four injured</a><br />
<i>The Jerusalem apartment shared by Eritrean asylum seekers was set on
fire late last night, Ynet reports. Four were taken to the hospital,
where they were treated and released for burns and smoke inhalation.
Graffiti outside of the apartment read, “Get out of the neighborhood.”</i><br />
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May 30, 2012<br />
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4236015,00.html" target="_blank">Jewish view on refugees</a><br />
Op-ed: Jewish values, need for Jewish continuity must be integrated in treating migrants <br />
<i>Israel is founded on two counter and often contrary Jewish
narratives. One speaks about the continuity of Jewish values and the
other the Jewish value of continuity. The first is highly attuned to the
moral ideals expressed in the biblical injunction to remember that you
were a slave in the land of Egypt, and our duty to leverage our past
suffering to create a society committed to the highest level of
sensitivity to others, in particular, fellow sufferers. </i><br />
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<a href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=8424" target="_blank">Incitement Against Refugees leads to Racist Attacks in Israel</a><br />
<i>In recent weeks, incitement by government officials, rightist settlers, and poor community members against African refugees seeking asylum in Israel escalated into violence. In may Molotov cocktails were thrown into refugee homes, businesses and one kindergarten. The incident did not lead to casualties but inspired a wave of protests leading to a race riot on May 23rd. The Real News’ Lia Tarachansky spoke with community members who protested against the refugees, with Mohammad Ibrahim, a refugee from Sudan, Rotem Ilan who volunteers to chaperone refugee children home from kindergartens to avoid violence, and journalist Mya Guarnieri.</i><br />
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May 28th, 2012<br />
<a href="http://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/2012/05/disturbing-rhetoric-on-race-from.html" target="_blank">What is behind the Israeli mistreatment of African migrants?</a><br />
<i> "This week, Yishai asked rhetorically: “So what, the State of Israel, as the Jewish state, in the name of democracy, in the name of honouring UN resolutions, (should accept) a recipe for suicide?” Likewise, when the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the separation of Palestinian spouses, the majority opinion stated: “human rights are not a prescription for national suicide”. "</i><br />
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May 24, 2012<br />
<i><a href="http://www.rt.com/news/israel-anti-migrant-demo-061/" target="_blank">Israeli Kristallnacht: Africans attacked in Tel Aviv anti-migrant demo</a><br />Thousands of Israelis, including high-profile politicians, attended an anti-African demonstration in Tel Aviv. The rally turned violent, with attacks on Africans and grocery shop windows being smashed.<br />The gathering, which took place in Tel Aviv’s Hatikva neighborhood, targeted the influx of African asylum seekers and was organized by Michael Ben Ari, a Knesset member from the National Union party, along with far-right activists Itamar Ben-Guir and Baruch Marzel, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports. </i><br />
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