Sudanese Refugee, Knifed And Beaten, Says Attackers Were A Gang Of Skullcap Wearing Jews

Ali Alhira, who was stabbed in back and stomach by eight men with skullcaps, recounts moments of horror from his hospital bed. "They assaulted me and my brother without any reason, and no one did anything."

 

'I said I was from Sudan and was attacked'
Ali Alhira, who was stabbed in back and stomach by eight men with skullcaps, recounts moments of horror from his hospital bed. 'They assaulted me and my brother without any reason, and no one did anything.' I'm sorry I ever came to Israel, he adds
Yoav Zitun • Ynet

The deep rift between African refugees and residents of the Pardes Katz neighborhood is well apparent on Ali Alhira's face. The 23 year-old Sudanese asylum seeker, who was stabbed Saturday evening on a Bnei Brak street, is still hospitalized at the surgical ward of the Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer.

Alhira reveals a deep cut in the center of his stomach, but the greater pain can be seen on his face. On Saturday evening, as he was sitting at the entrance to a small public while arriving to visit his brother who lives in the northern neighborhood of the ultra-Orthodox city, the two were brutally attacked by a group of local young men, who they say were wearing skullcaps.

The Dan District Police view the incident as extremely severe and are working on the intelligence level to locate the assailants, who fled the scene. The investigators suspect that the two were attacked due to their descent.

Alhira's brother was lightly injured after being beaten with a club and has been released from the hospital. Ali, however, was stabbed several times in the back and stomach and was rushed to the hospital in moderate condition.
 
"I arrived from (the central Arab city of) Tayibe, where I live, to visit my brother, and we were sitting on the street and talking," he recounts in a conversation with Ynet. "Suddenly a group of eight young men walked by and asked us where we were from. I told them we were from Sudan.
 
"In response, they attacked us for no reason, and we couldn't understand why. At the time of the assault no one intervened or tried to help. I thought they were going to kill us. After the assailants escaped, I was left bleeding on the pavement and two residents who passed by called an ambulance."

'I plan to return to Sudan'

Alhira, who infiltrated Israel through Egypt a year ago, works as a cleaner. Two of his friends sit at the entrance to the ward and try to translate what he says to the medical staff, with the help of an Arab nurse.

During the interview he asked to convey a message to his attackers: "If I ever see them again, I'll tell them that we're all human beings and that there is no difference between a Sudanese and a Jew. I was very surprised by their behavior, which conceals a lot of hatred and racism.

"Whoever says the Sudanese are a danger to Israel is lying," adds the man who was stabbed in Pardes Katz, a neighborhood whose rabbi has called on residents not to rent out their apartments to Africans, warning of a "spiritual disaster".

"We are living here with these people who attacked us, so I never thought it would happen," Alhira says. "In any event, it made me regret coming to Israel. After undergoing such abuse, I plan to return to Sudan as soon as I get out of the hospital because I just can't live here anymore."

Hassan Shaalan contributed to this report.

Comments

[tzvi]

[Sudanese Refugee, Knifed And Beaten, Says Attackers Were A Gang Of Skullcap Wearing Jews]

Is he sure none of them had beards? Wearing "skullcaps" in Israel does not help that much except to say that they were Jews.

['I plan to return to Sudan']

I wish him a refuah shelema and good luck back in his homeland.

[Dave]

The attackers have done a truly despicable act. And they have also really dragged the name of all Jews through the mud.

[tzvi]

[they have also really dragged the name of all Jews through the mud. ]

Only the skullcap wearing ones. The seculars are still safe.

[Dave]

Tzvi, most goyim don't distinguish between religious Jews and secular Jews. We're just kidding ourselves about that.

[Menachem Mendel lll]

We have been slowing witnessing the KKK'zation of the dirty "religious" Jew within our lifetime.

Would it make a difference if we urinate and defecate on all the disinformation and lies we were brainwashed into believing for generations.

For example: The entire Mishnah Brurah Siman 46.

Shelo Asani Goy....a "goy."

A "goy" would never do what these Jews did to a defenceless innocent man who escaped oppression only to end up being persecuted by the ones who were persecuted themselves.

This act of barbarism, criminality and racism only further proves that "we" Jews could never have been made "in god's image."

Moschiach....save us before it's too late.

MOSCHIACH!

[A. Nuran]

Sorry MMIII you're wrong this time. Gentiles are perfectly capable of this kind of evil. There's always been anti-refugee violence pretty much everywhere there have ever been refugees.

[who knows]

A "goy" would never do what these Jews did to a defenceless innocent man

Posted by: Menachem Mendel lll | February 14, 2011 at 08:56 AM

On which planet do you live MMIII? Have you every read a newspaper? Have you ever read any history book? Have you ever lived outside Jewish community? Your statement is absolutely false. This types of attacks happen everywhere all the time. It is Ok to be critical, it is not Ok to be blind.

[Menachem Mendel lll]

A. Nuran,

I agree but "we" have told the world for millennia that we are The Chosen People, we are The People Of The Book, we have a special covenant between us and the Lord.

Your right gentiles are perfectly capable of this kind of evil...just like the Jew.

[tzvi]

[I agree but "we" have told the world for millennia that we are The Chosen People,]

I never did so keep me out of it!

Maybe a declaration needed to tell the world that we are a religion, like so many others and please leave it at that.

If anything I have heard comments (or I should say jokes) of "God, I know it is a great honor to be the chosen people, but next time, could you choose someone else instead?"

[Loveandlivethetorah.blogspot.com]

Um,I'm really not surprised.
They beat up Jews too,these are Most probably the so called delinquents,they will beat up any defenseless person.
Jews in Bnei Brak and many other location have had to deal with these violent Young men for a while already.
the sudanese man just got a taste of what Israels delinquent youth is like today.

[Menachem Mendel lll]

tzvi,

No problem-o Tzvi consider it done.

By the powers vested in me I personally exculedeth you in accordance to your directions a la the Rasha in the Passover Hagada.

Tzvi, Tzvi, Tzvi...you are far more than just a religion.

Moschiach...anyone?

You Tzvi are "a light onto other nations."

Don't blame me for reminding you of your heritage and the responsibilities you are burdened with as a descent of Avrahum, Yitzhock and Yacoub.

[MamzerHaKodesh]

Ok you guys, Mendel is being sarcastic. He's saying that the incident has nothing to do with being Jewish, it's just random crazy people and we shouldn't take this incident as indicative or Jewish culture or education.

Unfortunately, I think he's wrong on several levels. As a minority group, everything negative any Jewish woman or man does is seen as reflective of the whole people. Is that stupid and unfair? Yes. Is life fair? No.

Secondly, an attitude of hatred and fear towards other cultures is present in every community, including the Jewish community. I have a little saying, and that is that the wonderful thing about white supremacism is you don't have to be white to be a white supremacist.

I grew up in a conservative/modern orthodox community, and the community I was a part of was racist. Maybe not every individual, but generally they were on a noticeable level.
I was denied entrance to a synagogue on a High Holy day at 13, was made fun of at Hebrew school for being brown, and my friends often told me their parents didn't want them talking to me. While there may have been other factors involved, I would say that the community (made up of may Ashkenazim and a significant amount of North African Moroccan Jews) was, and still is, racist.

This all happened in Canada. Israel is a place where the bigotry is more overt. Religious Jews claim to be holy and God loving. The Torah can be interpreted many ways, but in general, everyone knows that being God loving means acting with love and respect to your fellow beings, whether human, animal or plant. We often know, on some level, when we are violating these tenets because of the feeling that we need to "explain" ourselves in some way, or justify our actions. Sometimes it's the inability to look one another in the eye the day after a violent communal act. It's similar to men who tell themselves that women who dress a certain way "want" to be raped, when they know damn well, deep down, that no one is responsible for the violence but them. Otherwise they wouldn't need the excuse in the first place.

The dilemma is clear. Living a frum life is supposed to bring us, invariably, closer to God. How can we say it does that when these acts happen all around us.

Saying that "other people do it to" is a valid point - for a secularist. I don't believe Jews are "better" or more "spiritual" than any other group of people on earth. But those who are the true-believing Orthodox do believe Jews are "better" in whatever way. We can play the "separate but equal game", but to me that's all it is- a game. I still remember the Hanukkah book I had as a child telling me that Jews and other nations were like oil and water - we always rise to the top.

Therefore, I never again want to hear a religious person saying "other groups do it to". According to the religion, we are not other groups. We're so holy we should have sunlight and rainbows streaming out of our butts. "Other groups do it to", is not an excuse if you believe your group is not like other groups in the first place.

As I read more about Jewish history, I have more and more compassion for the closed, ossified traditions of Judaism. Is our hatred and rage understandable, natural, and healthy? Absolutely.

Wait, what? Yes, it is. It is understandable, natural and healthy. Acting on that rage, hatred, fear and grief is not healthy. Our job as human beings, or as Jews if you would specify, is to keep raising the bar. We want to elevate the mundane, right? Well, we are ready to do better. God knows what will become of our religion or cultural identity that to me seems like a broken heirloom that holds no practical application or sustenance except for a comforting sense of nostalgia for an increasingly distant past.

But we, whichever "we" we choose, are ready for the next step. That means not condoning the violence or abuse in our communities, especially our "holier" communities. It means not minimizing, justifying, denying or rationalizing it. It means admitting these problems exist. It means doing our part to create change on whatever level we feel we can.

Shmarya's blog does focus on the negative aspects of the Orthodox world. It is somewhat negative. Even I, armchair radical that I am, don't agree with every opinion he has. But Failedmessiah is so damn necessary to the Jewish community at this time. These things need to be exposed in a time when most people, out of a very understandable set of fears, are trying to cover them up. Right on, Shmarya.

[tzvi]

[You Tzvi are "a light onto other nations."]

Does this mean I have to walk around with a long flowing white robe holding a staff?

[PrettyBoyFloyd]

These same POS's bums attacked me & my friends as well, and us being very visibly Hareidi, the outcome then was allot different though. These POS's roam Bnei Brak looking for easy victims.

[A. Nuran]

Does this mean I have to walk around with a long flowing white robe holding a staff?

Nope. We can set you on fire instead.

[nobody]

"A "goy" would never do what these Jews did to a defenceless innocent man "

Yeah, because we burned ourselves in the holocaust; it wasn't goyim doing it.

...

[Sifter]

The people who did this are evil, plain and simple. Because Gentiles also do this to innocents does not make it right nor justifiable, no way no how. But don't change history to make your point. Jews aren't raping Filipino domestics in Saudi Arabia and beating the crap out of them. Jews aren't killing Christian schoolchildren in Indonesia nor stabbing other Jews on Parisian commuter trains. Jews aren't shooting up JCC's in Seattle nor carving swastikas into the foreheads of disabled Gentiles in Germany. So make your point, condemm what is wrong, but don't go antiJew on us either.