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Attacks on Israel’s fast-growing population of African asylum-seekers, mainly from South Sudan and Eritrea, are rising. Hundreds of Jews led by settlers from the West Bank, where Palestinians hope to create their state, recently marched through districts of south Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial capital, where black immigrants proliferate, chanting “Africans Out!” Pumped up with angry excitement, the middle-aged chef of a fast-food shop, in HaTikva, a working-class district where migrants are also settling in large numbers, offers passers-by “grilled kushi”, provocatively meaning “grilled blacks”, and suggests getting rid of the immigrants by throwing grenades at their tenements. In recent weeks, several homes and a kindergarten for Africans have been firebombed.

Liberal Israelis have staged anti-racist rallies. A generation after their arrival, over 120,000 Ethiopian Jews have been integrated. The country has received an estimated 60,000 black asylum-seekers. It is not the first to struggle when large numbers of people suddenly arrive.

On May 29th the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, said he was adding African “infiltrators” to his list of threats to the Jewish homeland. He said he shared the rioters’ pain and promised to solve the problem by completing a wall along the border with Egypt. He said he would also build the world’s largest detention centre—and deport all those within, starting with the South Sudanese.

Fleeing the rule of poverty, struggle and authoritarian, some 60,000 black Africans have crossed illegally into Israel through the desert border with Egypt relatively easy in recent years.

Israel says most come in search of work in a place of refuge, but deportation has been challenged by humanitarian agencies and civil rights groups, making deportation problematic legally.

Immigration to Israel is controversial in a country that tries to maintain a Jewish majority.

Some Israelis warn of a demographic crisis and economic slowdown, while others say that a country born after the Holocaust has a special responsibility to provide sanctuary to foreigners.

Bora Bora wrote:, offers passers-by “grilled kushi”, provocatively meaning “grilled blacks”

During the protest last month, demonstrators went on the rampage, attacking African-run shops and smashing up a car driven by two African men.

Police said afterwards that 20 people had been arrested on suspicion of vandalising shops and attacking cars driven by Africans, but there were no injuries.

Migrants have subsequently been targeted in several attacks, including the firebombing of an apartment in Jerusalem last week.

The riots sparked shock in Israel, but also prompted top-level calls for the immediate arrest and expulsion of tens of thousands of African migrants, most of whom come from Sudan, South Sudan and Eritrea.

Rumplestiliskin wrote:I would hazzard a guess......

Rumplestiliskin wrote:I would hazzard a guess that the majority of the people posting on this forum don't even live in the middle east and are just here to post there anti semitic and anti white views.

desertdudeshj wrote:I guess the new policy is. A (white) Jewish homeland.

Shade wrote:Rumplestiliskin , it's true. It's Joo this, Joo that on the forum. Maybe someone should tell the racist that Arabs are doing a lot more killing and persecuting than the Jews he's obsessed with?

Frequentflier wrote:However, this is not to say that other topics of interest elsewhere in the world should not be posted here.

Rumplestiliskin wrote:Thanks FF. It too often appears that subjects can only be discussed once they have the approval of the anti white anti jewish movement on DF.

I came across this quote from Anthony Julius today in Haaretz. He disapproves of a commonly seen fanbois tactic in these forums. 'A playground defense' and 'least attractive form of defense'.

Q: What about those who argue that the disproportionate attention paid to Israel and its actions is in some way itself tainted with anti-Semitism?

A: This is what is called "what about-ery." What about this other country, or that one. I think it's the least attractive form of defense. To say "Well, yes, maybe I did do this and this, but over there, they did worse." Well, this creates a playground defense when you are resisting a punishment from the teacher, but I don't think it has any real moral weight to it. Criticisms have to be addressed in their own terms, and if they are felt to be disproportionate it's unfortunate, but I don't think it necessarily is anti-Semitism.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/head-to-head-with-attorney-anthony-julius-1.305875

shafique wrote:It does speak volumes that those seemingly in favour of Israel's apartheid tactics can't directly address the crimes, but rather choose whataboutery.