"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”. "
What is behind the Israeli mistreatment of African migrants?
By Ben White Published 28 May 2012
The recent anti-African mob violence in Tel Aviv was, sadly, no surprise. Only a few days previously, Prime Minister Netanyahu warned “illegal
infiltrators” could threaten the country’s existence “as a Jewish and
democratic state”, with Interior Minister Eli Yishai saying that “the
migrants are giving birth to hundreds of thousands, and the Zionist
dream is dying”.
Cabinet ministers talk in
terms of “expulsion by consent or without consent” to “preserve the
country's Jewish identity”, and of “taking steps to kick out” the “scourge” of “infiltrators”. A prominent Likud parliamentarian and chair of the “Knesset Caucus to Solve the Infiltrator Problem” urged for this “plague” to be removed “without delay and without mercy”.
A disturbing conference
held in April in Ramle gives further insight into this mainstream
racism, and points to an important connection between the anti-African
incitement, and the institutionalised discrimination faced by
Palestinians....READ MORE
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