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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Reuters The real tragedy is not taking place in Tel Aviv. It's taking place thousands of kilometers further south in Africa. That is where most of the illegal migrants arriving in Israel come from. What they are escaping depends on who they are and...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Facebook Likud MK Miri Regev apologized over the weekend for comparing African migrant workers to cancer , while still justifying the comparison. She said that in her speech at a Tel Aviv rally last Wednesday she merely compared how quickly the...
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Haaretz
| 1 year ago
Likud MK Miri Regev, who came under fire last week after calling African migrants "a cancer" in Israeli society, apologized for the first time for her comments on Sunday, opting, however, to leave the migrants out of her apology. Regev's...
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Ynet News
| 1 year ago
Amir Levy Some 20 activists gather on likud MK's doorstep, observe moment of silence in protest of her 'inciting, racist' statements against infiltrators. Unfazed Regev responds by handing out water, flowers Boaz Fyler Israelis who took issue with MK...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
As England supporters, we should scorn at any such deciding factor within football...Pronouncements on sexual inequality in the UK are normally met with an eye roll by my generation...The corruption and hypocrisy which has come to characterise...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Israeli police said they're increasing their presence in south Tel Aviv to quell rising tensions between residents and African migrants. Israeli Police Inspector General Yochanan Danino and Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch agreed to add...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Israel denies African migrants' rights, says US Israeli protesters demonstrated against racism after raced related violence in Tel Aviv The US state department has criticised Israel's treatment of thousands of African asylum seekers who it says are...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
A racially charged demonstration against the Israeli government's handling of immigration from Africa turned violent Wednesday night as protesters attacked foreign workers, shattered car windows and vandalized a shop owned by a Sudanese migrant.
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Haaretz
| 1 year ago
Some 200 Eritreans demonstrating outside the Eritrean embassy in Israel on Friday against the regime of President Isaias Afwerki, claimed that Israel ignores the country's human rights abuses because Eritrea is a strategic ally. The demonstration to...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Marc Israel Sellem Amid rising tensions over the issue of African migrants in Israel , the United States criticized aspects of the government's treatment of asylum seekers, in a State Department report released Thursday. The report, entitled 2011...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
A racially charged demonstration against the Israeli government's handling of immigration from Africa turned violent Wednesday night as protesters attacked foreign workers, shattered car windows and vandalized a shop owned by a Sudanese migrant.
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Recent rapes blamed on African migrants have ignited a political and emotional backlash against their ballooning numbers, with Israelis and their leaders stridently — and in an alarming new development, violently — calling for their expulsion.
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Haaretz
| 1 year ago
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton presented on Thursday the State Department's 2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices that criticizes Israel for its treatment of African migrants, an issue vigorously debated in Israeli public discourse lately.
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
The MKs who spoke at the rally are pouring fuel on an area where residents are already dealing with serious problems, he told The Jerusalem Post . The worst part is that Sudanese and Eritreans are now being blamed for all [the country's] ills, though...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 1 year ago
Jewish groups condemn anti-African violence in Tel Aviv Jewish groups called on Israel to protect African migrants in Israel after riots in Tel Aviv. We hope and expect that the authorities will take effective measures to protect this population from...
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Haaretz
| 1 year ago
Interior Minister Eli Yishai said on Thursday that he plans to fine mayors of Israeli cities who employ migrant workers. Yishai told Israel's Channel 2 news that authorities that employ infiltrators will be "personally fined." "We will also start to...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Asylum-seekers may pose a moral, not demographic threat to Israel. Photo: Asaf Kliger/Israel Post It has become commonplace for politicians and the Israeli media to call for the deportation of the Africans. Israeli newspapers are rallying against...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Violent race riots that shook south Tel Aviv overnight sparked shock in Israel on Thursday, but also prompted top-level calls for the immediate arrest and expulsion of tens of thousands of African migrants. The latest unrest to sweep the impoverished...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
He pledged that the border fence with Egypt will be completed in a number of months, and that Israel would soon begin deporting the illegal immigrants. "Demonstrations are legitimate but violence of any kind isn't," Aharonovitch said. The minister...
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Haaretz
| 1 year ago
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised on Thursday that his government would address the issue of African migrants in Israel, one day after a protest against them by residents of south Tel Aviv turned violent. "The infiltrator problem must be...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
According to Rivlin, there is constant tension between the need to protect national and social interests, and Jewish sentiment and morals, which seek to protect the weak. The Knesset Speaker expressed disapproval of the atmosphere in Wednesday night'...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 1 year ago
Ariel Schalit/AP Demonstrators have attacked African migrants in Tel Aviv in a protest against refugees and asylum-seekers which indicated an increasingly volatile mood in Israel over what it terms as "infiltrators". Miri Regev, a member of the...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Violence surged in the streets of Tel Aviv as a 1000-strong protest against African immigrants seeking asylum in Israel turned violent. Share This Story Residents of a low-income Tel Aviv neighbourhood descended to the streets, waving Israel i flags...
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Haaretz
| 1 year ago
Following Wednesday's violent protest against African migrants in Tel Aviv, Likud MK Danny Dannon called to remove African asylum seekers from population centers in Israel. Speaking to Haaretz, Dannon said that the immediate solution for calming the...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
African migrants drive a car whose windows were shattered by Israeli protesters taking part in a rally against the flow of refuges into Israel. Photograph: Roni Schutzer/AFP "In 1936 my grandfather stood against the fascists in Cable Street ...After...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
Surging street violence against African migrants, including a rampage that an Israeli broadcaster dubbed a pogrom, drew empathy for the rioters from the interior minister on Thursday. Waving Israeli flags and chanting Deport the Sudanese,...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
Breaking News Two African migrants have been indicted in the Tel Aviv District Court for the rape of a woman near the central bus station in south Tel Aviv. According to the indictment, Ahmed Abdallah, from South Sudan, and Kidesh Takela, from...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
A feminist movement has accused the Israeli government of adopting a racist policy towards the country's Ethiopian Jews...The rally turned violent, with attacks on Africans and grocery shop windows being smashed. The gathering, which took place in...
