66 posts categorized "Refugees"

January 10, 2013: Israel Opens Health Clinic For African Refugees, Then Makes Arrests Of Refugees Just Outside It
Comments: 14 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Refugees , Religion , Sefardim , Xenophobia
After Ichilov Hospital got caught last summer trying to separate African “migrants” from Israelis in its clinics and wards, a Health Ministry committee decided that an urgent care clinic should be opened to serve the African refugees. To its credit,...

January 1, 2013: As Kahanists March Against African Refugees, Israel’s Prime Minister Stays Silent
Comments: 14 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Israel , Refugees , Religion , Xenophobia
Dozens of local residents and right-wing activists from across Israel demonstrated last night after learning that an 83-year-old Jewish woman was raped in the backyard of her apartment building near Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station. As Kahanists March Against african...

January 1, 2013: Shas Anti-Refugee Campaign Video Drips With Barely Concealed Racism
Comments: 3 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Refugees , Religion , Sefardim , Xenophobia
The Sefardi haredi Shas political party prepared an election campaign video commercial made to inflame fear and hatred of African refugees in the hope that would push voters to vote for Shas and its anti-refugee policies in the upcoming elections....

December 29, 2012: OUTRAGE: Man Who Firebombed Occupied African Refugee Kindergarten And Homes To Get No Jail Time
Comments: 9 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Israel , Refugees , Sefardim , Xenophobia
The attempted murder by arson of dozens of men, women and children will bring an estimated sentence of only 6 months of community service. Is it open season on African refugees in Benjamin Netanyahu's quasi-democratic Israeli state? Haim Moula OUTRAGE:...

December 3, 2012: Vizhnitz Hasidim Shocked By Sudanese Workers Sleeping Arrangements
Comments: 24 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Refugees
Vizhnitz hasidim were reported to be “shocked” to discover yesterday that a secluded “sanctified” room used by the previous two the Vizhnitz Rebbes, the author of Imrei Chayim and his son the author of Yeshuot Moshe, had been “defiled” by...

November 6, 2012: Let Them Eat Sand: Israel Moves To Close African Refugees’ Businesses Due To “Threat” Refugees Pose To Israel
Comments: 22 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
"We have no other way to make a living. This is pure racism...some people, if denied the possibility to work for a living, will turn to crime.” Let Them Eat Dust Israel Moves To Close African Refugees’ Businesses Due To...

October 30, 2012: Jail All African Refugees, Haredi Interior Minister Says
Comments: 20 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Refugees , Sefardim , Xenophobia
"They've painted us as if, heaven forbid, [we were creating] refugee camps," Interior Minister Eli Yishai complained yesterday. "The facilities are almost finished and now I'm in a battle with the human rights organizations and the [state’s] prosecution. I don't...

October 16, 2012: Israel's Treatment Of Refugees Among Worst In The Developed World
Comments: 6 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
“We − HIAS, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security − trained Israeli officers to the highest international standards,” he said. “But the [Israeli] system is basically carved out to reject claims. The...

October 15, 2012: Living Conditions In Israel's Refugee Detention Center "Unreasonable," Social Affairs Ministry Says
Comments: 4 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
The Social Affairs Ministry is objecting to the Defense Ministry's handling of the refugee detention center being built in Ketzot near the border with Egypt to hold what Israel call "infiltrators" and what the rest of the world calls "refugees"...

September 27, 2012: Israel, Racism, Xenophobia – And Daycare
Comments: 14 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Refugees , Religion , Xenophobia
Outside the real estate agent's office, Blessing and her husband stood together with the journalist and biographer Yael Gvirtz.. "People were running in the street with bottles of beer in their hands, and were trying to get others to join...

September 24, 2012: Israeli Zionist Orthodox Woman Stirs Online Flap After Calling African Refugees “Animals”
Comments: 57 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , MO & Chardal , Refugees , Xenophobia
A right wing Zionist Orthodox went to South Tel Aviv on a “safari” and took pictures in which she posed near African refugees who she referred to as “animals.” "There are no signs saying you can't take pictures with the...

August 27, 2012: Eilat Backs Down, Agrees To Enroll African Refugee Children In Public Schools
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees , Religion , Xenophobia
Israel’s Ministry of Education and the City of Eilat agreed Sunday to admit African refugee children into the city’s schools after Israel’s High Court of Justice reportedly harshly criticized them during a hearing Thursday. For four years, the city, with...

August 20, 2012: Israeli City Refuses To Enroll African Refugee Children In Its Public Schools
Comments: 53 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees
Despite a court order, the Eilat is refusing to enroll African refugee children in the city’s public schools. Israeli City Refuses To Enroll African Refugee Children In Its Public Schools Despite a court order, the Eilat is refusing to enroll...

August 17, 2012: Is Female Genital Mutilation A Valid Reason For Gaining Refugee Status In Israel?
Comments: 26 | Categories: Israel , Refugees
Should a family be granted asylum in Israel because if deported back to the Ivory Coast the family's daughter will be forcibly circumcised? The Ivory Coast refugee family, Tel Aviv, Israel Should a family be granted asylum in Israel because...

July 29, 2012: Hundreds Of Holocaust Survivors And Their Children Protest Israel’s Mistreatment Of African Refugees
Comments: 54 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
“Last winter I saw on television dozens of African migrants huddled together in Levinsky Park. The sight was horrible and I decided to help them by giving the migrants food and blankets. During the Holocaust, I had to learn to...

July 12, 2012: Pregnant Woman, Husband Injured In Anti-African Jerusalem Arson
Comments: 11 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
A pregnant woman and her husband were injured early this morning after a fire was set at the entrance to their Jerusalem apartment. Both husband and wife are African refugees from Eritrea. Pregnant Woman, Husband Injured In Anti-African Jerusalem Arson...

July 6, 2012: Elderly African Refugee Attacked And Beaten In Jerusalem
Comments: 29 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
A 68-year-old refugee from Eritrea man was reportedly seriously injured by drunk youths who beat the man on Agrippas Street near downtown Jerusalem early Friday morning. A 23-year-old man who tried help the man fend off his attackers was also...

June 21, 2012: Video: Progressive Jews Demand Israel Stop Its Mistreatment Of African Refugees
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Darfur , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
"We, members of the global Jewish community, are appalled and outraged by Israel's abominable treatment of African migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. Itself a nation of refugees, Israel should know better than most the torment and horrors endured by those...

June 18, 2012: All African Refugees Requests To Convert To Judaism Have Been Denied
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Refugees , Religion , Xenophobia
All requests from African refugees and “illegal” migrants from Africa to convert to Judaism in Israel have been rejected over the past year, an anonymous source in the Prime Minister's Office says. African refugees in Tel Aviv All African Refugees...

June 18, 2012: 127 South Sudanese Refugees ‘Voluntarily’ Deported
Comments: 53 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Darfur , Haredim , Israel , Refugees , Sefardim , Xenophobia
Israel uses threat of indefinite imprisonment, small financial inducements, to force out refugees. 127 South Sudanese Refugees ‘Voluntarily’ Deported Israel uses threat of indefinite imprisonment, small financial inducements, to force out the refugees. Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com 123 Sudanese refugees...

May 29, 2012: Deport African Refugees, Jail Israeli Human Rights Activists, MK Says
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Israel , Refugees , Religion , Xenophobia
Calling human rights activists “hypocrites” who “would be the first to put haredim and settlers on buses and transfer them," Kadima Party Knesset Member Yulia Shamalov Berkovich told a Knesset committee that, “all human rights activists should be imprisoned and...

May 24, 2012: SHAME: Israelis Riot, Loot, Attack, Stone African Refugees
Comments: 41 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Refugees
Dozens of protesters tried to move from the Hatikva neighborhood, where the rally was held, towards Tel Aviv’s Shapira neighborhood, where most African refugees live. They were stopped by police. Protesters attacked a car passing by carrying African immigrants, smashing...

May 21, 2012: Inform On Jews Who Rent Apartments To African Refugees, Haredi Rabbis Say
Comments: 20 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Refugees , Religion
Rabbis in the Israeli haredi city of Bnei Brak told Jews that it is forbidden to rent apartments to African refugees. But the rabbis went further than they had in previous rulings by also ruling that the Jewish law of...

April 27, 2012: African Refugees Firebombed In Tel Aviv
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Refugees , Xenophobia
Four homes and a kindergarten that serves African refugees were firebombed last night in south Tel Aviv. The homes were were occupied and damage was done, but the refugees were able to escape unharmed. The remains of the torched kindergarten's...

April 20, 2012: Deport African Refugees, Haredi Interior Minister Says
Comments: 25 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Refugees , Sefardim
The government aims to deport tens of thousands of foreigners who crossed into Israel illegally, Interior Minister Eli Yishai declared at a conference organized by right-wing groups earlier this week. Israel's Interior Minister and leader of the Sefardi haredi Shas...

April 2, 2012: Send African Refugees Back To A Near Certain Death, Rabbi Says
Comments: 26 | Categories: Ethics , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Refugees
“The people of Israel brought the concept of compassion into the world. We are noted for our compassion even by our enemies; Hitler specifically pointed out that we introduced such concepts, and they hated us for it. But excessive compassion...

January 27, 2012: Video: Tel Aviv – A Day In The Life Of A Sudanese Refugee
Comments: 39 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees
He sleeps in a park with other refugees. He has no job, no food and no shoes. He is hungry and afraid. The government demands huge fines from employers who hire these people. The High Court stayed that law but...

April 16, 2011: Rights Report Finds Problems With How Israel Treats Refugees, Non-Orthodox Jews
Comments: 9 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees , Religion , Xenophobia
The United States Department of State's annual report on Human Rights finds problems with how Israel treats its Arab citizens, how it treats West Bank Palestinians, how it seems to ignore or respond slowly to settler violence against Palestinians –...

February 26, 2011: NGOs Slam Israel Government Decision To Build Holding Facility For Refugees
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees , Religion , Xenophobia
Non-governmental organizations expressed their outrage following reports this week that the Population, Immigration and Borders Authority was building a detention facility to house illegal residents of Israel and their children – mostly refugees from Africa – as they await deportation....

February 18, 2011: African Refugees Brutalized En Route To Israel
Comments: 7 | Categories: Refugees
Refugees describe horrific ordeals including systematic rape, gang rape and torture at hands of Beduin smugglers. 'African migrants brutalized en route to Israel' Testimonies given to Hotline for Migrant Workers describe horrific ordeals, systematic rape, torture at hands of Beduin...

November 21, 2010: Bnei Brak Moves To "Shame" Landlords Who Rent To African Refugees And Other Non-Jews
Comments: 15 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
Haredi city's new whistleblower hotline invites neighbors to report and "shame" homeowners who rent homes and apartments to African refugees and other non-Jews. Bnei Brak battles African 'infiltrators' Whistleblower hotline invites neighbors to report, 'shame' homeowners who rent to migrants...

November 15, 2010: Today's African Refugees Like "Midianite Raids On Israel In Biblical Times"
Comments: 16 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
Some protestors said the refugees "chase our daughters," while others called the Africans "beasts" and claimed they "spread diseases, drink and steal." "Those who say I'm racist can go to hell in their black-free buildings and neighborhoods." MK: African migrant...

November 11, 2010: Haredi City Moves To Out Landlords Who Rent To Sudanese Refugees
Comments: 5 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
One Bnei Brak official said the city is considering the possibility of revealing the landlords' names "so the public will learn the identity of those whose personal monetary interests outweigh the harm caused to the general population." Bnei Brak may...

June 24, 2010: Shas Pol: Expel "Filthy" Refugees From Tel Aviv
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Refugees , Sefardim , Xenophobia
Shas councilman leads campaign against renting apartments to foreign migrants, refugees. City Council chairwoman: Campaign racist, illegal. Initiative: Expel 'filthy' infiltrators from Tel Aviv Shas councilman leads campaign against renting apartments to foreign migrants, refugees. City Council chairwoman: Campaign racist,...

August 2, 2009: Israel to Expel Foreign Workers, Refugees to be “Like Every Other Nation,” Shas Head Says
Comments: 17 | Categories: Ethics , Haredim , Israel , Refugees , Sefardim
Foreign workers and refugees will face a "massive expulsion," haredi rabbi Eli Yishai says. Israel to expel foreigners in order to “Be like Every other Nation” Elana Maryles Sztokman • Ynet / ElanaSztokman.com The announcement this morning by Interior Minister...

July 27, 2009: Letter From Tel Aviv:
My Hero The Sudanese Refugee
Comments: 0 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
Blacks, Jews and the State of Israel. My hero the Sudanese refugee Almost two years ago, T. walked across the border from Sinai into Israel in the search of a better life for her children. By Florentine Lempp • Ha'aretz...

July 14, 2009: Will Israel Grant Asylum To Fascism?
Comments: 7 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
A draconian new law would punish doctors and aid workers for helping asylum seekers, even those fleeing genocide. Refugees, doctors and aid workers alike could face 20 years in jail. Will Israel grant asylum to fascism? Bradley Burston • Haaretz...

July 12, 2009: Israel Journal: Fighting For Israel's African Refugees
Comments: 7 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
"My grandmother would be spinning in her grave if I wasn't doing this." Fighting for Israel's African refugees By YAAKOV LAPPIN • Jerusalem Post Driven by a passage from the Bible and the memory of his grandparents' plight, British-Israeli activist...

June 16, 2008: Letter From Refugees Of Genocide Surfaces
Comments: 17 | Categories: Ethics , Israel , Refugees
If you were Prime Minister of England or President of America in 1940, what would you have done if you received the following letter: "We beg you to accept, after proper security vetting, refugees from murder, and provide them with...

October 31, 2007: Egypt Arrests and Deports Sudanese Refugees Sent Back to Egypt by Israel
Comments: 18 | Categories: Ethics , Refugees
Remember when Ehud Olmert decided to deport Sudanese refugees to Egypt, promising that these poor people would not then be arrested or harassed by Egypt and would not be sent back to the Sudan? Remember how human rights activists inside...

October 18, 2007: The Zionist Dream Fulfilled
Comments: 12 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Refugees
The ethically-challenged Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has a plan. Refugees fleeing persecution in Africa who reach Israel will be sent back to Africa and housed in camps. Olmert is said to have reached a deal with Ethiopia to host...

September 9, 2007: Genocide and History – Is Israel Repeating the Errors Made By Britain, America and the West in 1938?
Comments: 17 | Categories: History , Israel , Refugees
Gershom Gorenberg writes: …[Some 1,700 Sudanese have entered Israel from Egypt in recent years, according to Eytan Schwartz of the Committee for Advancement of Refugees from Darfur, a coalition of Israeli groups. Of those, Schwartz says, 500 are from Darfur,...

September 5, 2007: Israel To Grant Citizenship To Darfur Refugees
Comments: 4 | Categories: Israel , Refugees
Bowing to pressure from Jewish groups outside Israel and from activists inside the country, Israel has decided to grant Israeli citizenship to a few hundred refugees from Darfur. The exact number – Israel calls this its "quota" – will be...

June 15, 2007: Israel Turns Over Christian Sudanese Refugees To Islamic Movement
Comments: 28 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal , Refugees
How sick is Israel? How sick are Israeli rabbis? Very, very sick. Why? Ha'aretz reports that 42 Sudanese refugees were found by Israeli Bedouin wandering in Be'er Sheva's industrial area. The Bedouin called aid workers and are housing the refugees...

June 6, 2007: Leading Israeli Rabbis: Do Not Help Darfur Refugees Who Reach Israeli Soil
Comments: 50 | Categories: Abdication , Chabad , Chabad & EJs , Ethics , Israel , MO & Chardal , Refugees
Here is a piece by Matthew Wagner from today's Jerusalem Post. Wagner reports Rabbi Dov Lior, the rabbi of Hebron and Kiryat Arba and a leader of the National Religious right wing has ruled that Israel should not aid Darfur...

May 17, 2007: Rabbi Dov Lior – Racist
Comments: 9 | Categories: Ethics , MO & Chardal , Refugees
Rabbi Dov Lior, the rabbi of Kiryat Arba is an ethically challenged individual. Never has this been more clear than today, when Rabbi Lior issued a ruling regarding refugees from Darfur who have fled to safety in Israel. First, Rabbi...

March 20, 2007: Thousands Held As Slaves In Sudan
Comments: 7 | Categories: Refugees
That's right. The BBC reports thousands of southern Sudanese, many Christian, are still held as slaves in Sudan's Arab north. (Some may have been taken from Darfur, as well.) Something to keep in mind as we move from slavery to...

March 18, 2007: Darfur Refugees In Israel – NY Times Reports
Comments: 2 | Categories: Israel , Refugees
The New York Times has a moving piece on Sudanese refugees in Israel. It notes these people were so badly treated in Egypt that they fled to Israel, preferring an Israeli jail to life in Egypt, where security forces have...

February 20, 2007: Arab Militias Mass In Darfur
Comments: 15 | Categories: Refugees
The Arab militias that have so terrorized the residents of the Darfur region of Sudan are reported to be massing in large numbers. While their purpose is not clear, Reuters reports: …"They are massing ... they have vehicles with machineguns...

December 7, 2006: Child Rape as Genocide
Comments: 0 | Categories: Hessed , Refugees
David Rubenstein writes: On Sunday December 10th, as part of UN World Human Rights Day, activists in cities around the world will hold demonstrations in front of the Sudan's embassies to "Raise the Alarm" on Darfur. We have called on...

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