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Video: Bal Ej – The Hidden Jews Of Ethiopia

The story of hidden Jews in the North Shewa region of Ethiopia, who remained isolated from other Jewish communities, including those inside Ethiopia, for centuries – until now.

A BBC Documentary On The Rescue Of Ethiopian Jews Lies

A BBC documentary on the rescue of Ethiopian Jews lies, not because the BBC is anti-Semitic or any of the other canards normally thrown at it, but because a former Mossad agent, intentionally or not, has tried to sell the world a story that isn't completely true.

The Jewish Holiday You Never Heard Of In Cheder

Ethiopian Jews celebrated a holiday yesterday in Jerusalem that was for hundreds of of years exclusive to them and unknown to Jews elsewhere due to the Ethiopian Jewish community’s isolation – Sigd, a commemoration of the giving of the Torah combined with remembering Jerusalem and praying to return there. Take a look.

Secret Israeli 'Rescue' From Ethiopia Revealed

In a semi-secret mission in 1972 hastily organized and carried out in only days, the Israel Air Force rescued 12 precious lives from Ethiopia. But this isn't a rescue like you've ever heard of, and the lives Israel 'rescued' are not even Jewish.

Government Approves Funding For Ethiopian Jewish Integration

Ethiopian Jewish Member of Knesset Avraham Neguise of the Likud Party reportedly said that even though he supports the effort to improve absorption, he had concerns. I want to see ”detailed plans rather than just lines and rules presented,” Neguise.

AG Drops Case Against White Cop Who Beat Ethiopian Jewish IDF Soldier, Cops Taser Young Ethiopian Jew, Protests Begin Anew

In another move that seems more reminiscent of Selma, Alabama in 1962 and many Third World countries today than it does a Western democracy, Israel’s Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein announced he is closing the case against the white policeman who beat Ethiopian Jewish IDF soldier Damas Pakada, apparently without provocation, in late April in Holon. The reason? "Lack of public interest."

Chabad Kindergarten Enrolls Ethiopian Jewish Students, Chabad Parents Strike In Response

Parents of students in a Chabad kindergarten in Kfar Yona have refused to send their children to school because the school accepted several Ethiopian Jewish children as students. In total, 34 children are staying home to protest the inclusion of the Ethiopian Jews.

Government And Jewish Agency Allegedly Took Bribes From Ethiopian Jews Desperate To Reunite Their Families

A number of Ethiopian Jews living in Israel allege they were forced to bribe the Jewish Agency and government officials in order to reunify their families. "This is high-level corruption from employees in the establishment, while senior officials closed their eyes."

At Least 15 Arrested In Latest Protest By Ethiopian Jews

Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews protested this afternoon in Tel Aviv against police brutality, racism and the decision by Israel's Attorney General, Yehuda Weinstein, not prosecute a police officer who beat an Ethiopian IDF soldier in an unprovoked attack.

Ethiopian Jews Plan Massive Demonstration Today Against Attorney General, State Prosecutor And Police

Ethiopian Jewish community activists say they will stage their largest protest against racism, police brutality and government apathy to date later today in Tel Aviv. The protest is a direct response to Israel’s Attorney General Yehuda Weinsten’s decision not to criminally charge the police officer who attacked and beat Damas Pakada, an unarmed Ethiopian Jewish IDF soldier last month.

Despite Video Evidence Of Police Brutality, Israel’s AG Decides Not To Prosecute Officer Who Beat Unarmed Ethiopian Jewish Soldier

A policeman caught on security camera footage beating an unarmed IDF soldier who is originally from Ethiopia will not face criminal charges despite the video evidence. The decision was made by Israel’s Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein yesterday after both State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan and the Police Investigation Unit recommended it.

Ethiopian Jews Clash With Police In Tel Aviv

Approximately 200 Ethiopian Jews clashed with Israel Police in Tel Aviv today during an un-permitted protest against alleged police racism and brutality and against institutional anti-Ethiopian discrimination in Israeli society.

Cop Who Beat Ethiopian IDF Soldier In Apparently Unprovoked Attack Says He Did Nothing Wrong

"He's of no interest to me, and I don't think he's acting according to his own free will," Y. says of Pakada. "In my opinion, he's been used and they're still using him. When I saw him with Bibi [the prime minister], I felt a sharp pang in my heart – because that's a guy who threw a punch at a policeman, who picked up a rock to throw at him. And how does it end? He gets his picture taken with the prime minister, at the prime minister's request, like he's getting a prize. I'd also like to meet with the prime minister and tell him what really happened there."

Haredi-Controlled Petach Tikva Rabbinate Caught Discriminating Against Ethiopian Jews, But Israel’s Haredi-Controlled Religious Services Ministry Says The Discrimination Does Not Exist

Israel’s Army Radio reported yesterday that Ethiopian Jewish couples in Petach Tikva have been forced to wait to marry for more than nine months while the Petach Tikva official state rabbinate, which is haredi-controlled, delayed approving their marriage documents – documents that had already been approved and certified by their official state Ethiopian Jewish rabbi.

Ethiopian Jews Protest Israeli Racism And Discrimination In Tel Aviv

“We wish to show that things haven’t dissipated – we’re continuing to protest. Nothing has been done for 30 years and we want to show the prime minister that this time we are not giving in. Even if he commits to doing something, we won’t be quiet until we see results.”

Israel Was Wrong To Close Its Doors To Ethiopian Jews For Decades, Israeli Racism And Discrimination Against Them Must End, Israeli President Says

Both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven “Ruby” Rivlin made statements today in support of Ethiopian Jews and against racism at the national memorial ceremony for the thousands of Ethiopian Jews who perished on their way to Israel in the early 1980s.

In Haifa, Ethiopian Jews Protest Racism

One protestor reportedly told media tonight's protest took place “to ensure that members of our community aren't judged solely on the color of their skin by Israeli society.”

Ethiopian Jews Demand "Zero Tolerance" For "Abusive Police" And Racist Civil Servants

"…[There is a] widespread realization by Ethiopian Israeli community members that the system is the problem. Institutional attitudes and government policies need to be reformed. Segregation in schools, whether resulting from ignorance or actual prejudice, must cease. The provision of inferior services for the community from government agencies must cease.…'[O]ver-policing' experienced by Ethiopian Israelis must be curbed; each complaint against police officers regarding brutality must be investigated and punitive action taken. IAEJ demands zero tolerance towards abusive police officers and the immediate suspension of all civil servants who make racist slurs or use bigoted expressions.…"

Ethiopian Jews Say Israel Police Using Violent Fringe Of Protesters To Cover Up Their Own Racism And Brutality

"It's part of the tactics of the police, unfortunately. Instead of understanding the pain of the Israeli public, not only of the Ethiopian community, the police use us and blame us as 'illegitimate,' and say we are unruly and violent. This is not the goal. There will be no [official] demonstration today."

Ethiopian Jews Say They Were Beaten By Police And Mistreated – After Being Taken Into Custody

“Some of us vomited and didn’t feel well. I kept spitting blood, afraid to swallow any of my teeth. Others urinated and defecated after being cooped up for seven hours. [I begged to see a doctor and a policeman replied] if you keep this up we’ll break more of your teeth.”

Video: Growing Up Black

A New York Times video on young males growing up Black in America – a video that for the most part also applies to growing up as young Ethiopian Jewish male in Israel.

Israeli President Says Ethiopian Protests “Revealed An Open And Raw Wound At The Heart Of Israeli Society”

“We must look directly at this open wound. We have erred. We did not look, and we did not listen enough. Among the protesters on the streets, were some of our finest sons and daughters; outstanding students; those who served in the IDF. We owe them answers.…"

Video: Violent Ethiopian Jewish Riots In Tel Aviv Lead To 15 Arrests

Today’s anti-police-racism protest by Ethiopian Jews in Tel Aviv turned into a violent riot, apparently after police used force to unblock roads and a freeway and to prevent protesters from breaking into City Hall.

Ethiopian Jews Block Roads In New Anti-Police-Racism Protest

In the wake of Thursday’s large anti-police-racism protest in Jerusalem organized by an ad hoc group of young Ethiopian Jews – a protest which turned violent, many say because of police brutality against the protesters – more than 1,000 protesters, almost all Ethiopian Jews, blocked roads in Tel Aviv and tried to march to the train station.

More Jerusalem Riots Video

Watch police violently disperse a crowd of Ethiopian Jews protesting against police brutality and racism.

Watch Live As It Happens: Large Anti-Police Protests In Jerusalem Ongoing

The large protest led by Ethiopian Jews against police racism has grown exponentially, with Israelis of all ethnicities and backgrounds joining to protest police brutality and racism.

Video: Ethiopian Jews' Anti-Police-Racism Protest Turns Violent As Police Attack

Watch police use tear gas and other projectiles to disperse hundreds of protesters, most Ethiopian Jews, who gathered from across Israel to protest what they claim is often unprovoked police violence against minorities.

More Than 1,000 Ethiopian Jews Protest Police Racism, Riot In Jerusalem

More than 1,000 protesters, almost all of them Ethiopian Jews, came from across Israel to protest what they say are a string of racist attacks by police against Ethiopian Israelis.

Ethiopian IDF Soldier Allegedly Beaten By Police In Unprovoked Racist Attack

Police were reportedly cordoning off a street due to a suspicious object when the soldier, who was riding his bicycle in full uniform, asked them what was happening. Police allegedly responded by lashing out at soldier. They pushed him off his bike, and one officer allegedly said, “I can do whatever I want,” and then began beating the soldier.

16 Haredi Teens Arrested For Allegedly Harassing, Assaulting Minority Bus Drivers

The gang regularly boarded a Saturday night midnight bus that runs from the largest shopping mall in Petah Tikva to Elad. If the driver was a minority – an Ethiopian Jew or an Arab-Israeli – the teens would terrorize them, vandalize the bus and the drivers’ property, and refuse to pay for the ride. If the driver was not a minority, the teens behaved.

Ethiopian Jews Protest Police Brutality In Israel

6 months after he went missing and was later found dead, the family and friends of Ethiopian-Israeli Yosef Salamsa hold a 3-day march to Jerusalem to protest the racist police brutality he experienced 4 months before his death, which they say triggered a depression which may have led to him taking his own life -- although his cause of death is uncertain, since the police never allowed Yosef's family to see the his body before it was buried.

In Tense Jerusalem, Ethiopian Jews Celebrate Ancient Holiday

Sigd, Amharic for prostration or worship, is the name of an ancient Ethiopian Jewish holiday held yearly on the 29th of the Hebrew month of Heshvan, 50 days after Yom Kippur. It is the day according to Ethiopian Jewish tradition that God first revealed himself to Moses. Today was Sigd in a very tense Jerusalem.

"You Guys Don't Like It? Go Back To Ethiopia!" Israeli Cops Allegedly Say

"Many complaints have reached my desk from Ethiopian emigrants who feel humiliated in face of the attitude of the police. There is a sense that when you guys get ahold of an Ethiopian you act with a much harsher hand and place their backs up against a wall solely because of the color of their skin. If this is true, then it is truly terrible. A person should be expected to pay a price only if he is a criminal but not due to his skin color, gender or ethnicity . Ethiopian emigrants must feel secure here."

Alleged Rape Victim Kills His Alleged Rapist, Gets 20 Years In Prison

For four years Yaron, a well-known thug and dread of the neighborhood, was shaking down an Ethiopian Jew named Yonatan for cash. But Yaron was also sexually harassing and abusing Yonaton, and allegedly raped him twice. One night, Yaron tried to extort Yonaton again and appeared to be about to rape him. Yonaton responded by beating Yaron to death with a brick, and smashing his penis to a pulp in the process.

2 Ethiopian Jews Beaten In Alleged Hate Crime

A 74-year-old man suffered serious injuries in the attack, including a fractured skull, and is still hospitalized at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva.

Sefardi Haredi Rabbi Refuses To Allow Ethiopian Jews To Marry

The Sefardi chief rabbi of the Israeli city of Petah Tikva has allegedly repeatedly refused to allow Ethiopian Jewish couples to marry because refused to accept them as Jews.

Israeli Police Use Force To Stop African Asylum Seekers From Marching To Freedom

On Sunday, Israeli police used force to break up a three-day desert sit-in by hundreds of African asylum seekers who fled a detention center and marched toward Israel’s border with Egypt.

Plea Deal With Orthodox Alleged Mob Boss In Rabbi Extortion Trial Draws Widespread Condemnation

Shalom Domrani agreed today plead guilty to lesser charges. He will reportedly receive only nine more months in prison on top of the five months he has already served while at trial – meaning Domrani will only serve a total of 14 months in prison.

Racist Israeli Bus Driver Who Allegedly Called 11-Year-Old Ethiopian Jewish Girl “Monkey” And Said She Should Go To “The Zoo” Sued

"Hey, you, the monkey at the back!" the driver allegedly said. Then he followed the girl after she got off the bus and continued insulting her, asking "where is the monkey?" Then he lashed out against her again, allegedly saying, “go behave this way at your parents home – oh, I forgot it won't matter as they are monkeys as well, so why don't you go to the zoo?"

Was The Late Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe A Racist?

The hard left magazine Counterpunch has published a new article attempting to prove that the late Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was racist bigot.

Magen David Adom Won't Let Ethiopian Jewish Member Of Knesset Donate Blood

"I'm 32, I arrived in Israel at the age of three, did my military service and have two children. There's no reason to treat me in this way."

Ethiopian Students In Orthodox Grade School Exempted From Tests And Given Inflated Grades To Mask School’s Poor Education

“Genuine exams would reveal the depth of gaps [in the educational levels of Ethiopian children who are mostly new immigrants or the children of new immigrants on one hand and native Israelis on the other], and then someone else would demand that the schools take care of them. Giving fake grades is a way to evade this.”

Haifa Man Who Threatened To Burn Ethiopian Jews Sentenced To 4 Years In Prison

In one of those incidents, Benny Lugasi reportedly put a table, chairs and boards in the entryway of the building and set them on fire. He tried to stop residents from putting it out, and told them, “I’ll bring a knife and finish you off ... You Sudanese, I’ll burn you, I’ll show you what’s what.” In another, he threatened to "burn all the Ethiopians in the building.”

Israel’s New Haredi Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Makes Racist Remark, Sparks Outrage

"Who cares if a bunch of paid 'Cushim'in Tel Aviv beat a bunch of paid 'Cushim' in Greece?" Chief Rabbi David Lau said, using a derogatory term for Black people that is in Modern Hebrew the rough equivalent of the English-language “N” word, “darkie” and “coon.”

Israel’s State Comtproller To Investigate Claims Of Coerced Long-Acting Birth Control For Ethiopian Women

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira announced earlier today that he will investigate allegations that HMOs and the state coerced and tricked Ethiopian women to take long-acting Depo-Provera birth control shots in order to reduce the Ethiopian population in Israel.

Evidence Mounts To Support Claim That Israel Tricked, Forced Ethiopian Women To Use Long-Acting Birth Control To Reduce Israel's Ethiopian Population

The director general of Israel's Ministry of Health Ronni Gamzu told a Knesset committee yesterday that since he ordered HMOs not to give Depo-Provera shots to Ethiopian women without first telling them of other possible methods of birth control. Investigative journalists and Ethiopian women have charged that Jewish Agency-run clinics in Ethiopia and HMOs in Israel routinely gave Ethiopian women Depo-Provera without their knowledge or consent. Other Ethiopian women have claimed that when they were told what Depo-Provera did, they told medical personnel that they did not want the shot. The medical personnel alleged threatened the women and told them that they would not be able to come to Israel unless they allowed the shots to be given.

Scathing State Comptroller’s Report Blasts Israel’s Health, Absorption, Education And Interior Ministries

Among the report's findings: The Zionist Orthodox school system employed more unqualified teachers than Israel’s secular public schools and than Arab schools. (Haredi schools, even when they are funded by the state, are officially private, not public, schools and are therefore not covered directly in the comptroller’s report.)

Israel’s Absorption Of Ethiopian Jews A Failure, Gov’t Comptroller Says In Scathing Report

All talk, little action: In 2001, the Government of Israel announced a special 9-year $660-million absorption program for the approximately 130,000 Ethiopian Jews then in Israel. But since 2005, government ministries have allocated only a tiny amount of the money – an annual average of approximately $6 million, only about 8% of the amount they should have spent.

5 Israelis Busted After Beating, Robbing Blacks In Tel Aviv

Five Israelis were arrested yesterday a series of violent attacks on black people they thought were African refugees. However, two of the victims were in fact Ethiopian Jews.

Video: Israel's First Black Miss Israel Meets President Obama

Miss Israel, Yityish Aynaw, is an immigrant from Ethiopia who served in the Israeli army and idolizes President Obama. The White House asked Israel to invite her to the state dinner it held in honor of President Obama this week. Aynaw tells CNN all about it.