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They weren’t real refugees
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Netanyahu talked about how Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany were turned away by countries around the world. Considering the Netanyahu government’s standards for...
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Liberal Zionism at 65: Fantasy and reality
Liberal Zionism has had 65 years to prove Israel can indeed be both a Jewish state and a liberal democracy. Given its track record, is it time to put the ideology to rest? By David Sheen Israeli flag...
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The guide to the lesbian refugee: How to pass the dildo test
In the United Kingdom, the ‘Anne Frank’ principle makes way for even more creative methods to reject homosexual asylum seekers. When Oscar Wild wrote his in essay, “The Truth of Masks,” about the...
View ArticleThe personal and the political: Territorial swaps and population exchanges
When Israeli politicians talk about land swaps, they rarely consider the rights of those affected – or at least the Palestinian ones. As personal as it is political, the entire situation shows the lack...
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The Nakba: Addressing Israeli arrogance
For Israelis wishing to participate in a common struggle, relieving ourselves of our ignorance and arrogance should be the top priority. Not for the sake of Palestinians – for our own sake, to restore...
View ArticleWATCH: Eritrean refugee’s shocking personal testimony
Zabib Sultan, an asylum seeker from Eritrea who heads the Eritrean Women’s Community Center, shares a shocking testimony about her and other women’s experiences on their way to Israel. She gave her...
View ArticleIsraeli plan to offload Eritreans: An affront to international law
Israel’s supposed plan to send tens of thousands of Eritrean asylum seekers to an unspecified African country raises enormous humanitarian, human rights and political concerns. The 1951 Convention...
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Fact checking racist incitement against African refugees in Israel
Respected Israeli journalist Ben Caspit recently launched an attack against African asylum seekers in Israeli national newspapers ‘The Post’ and ‘Jerusalem Post.’ A response to the racist incitement...
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PHOTOS: Tel Aviv marks World Refugee Day with music, theater
Since 2001, June 20th is celebrated globally as World Refugee Day. In Israel, there are 55,000 asylum seekers, mainly from Eritrea and Sudan, two of the main source countries for refugees worldwide, a...
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Eritrean asylum seekers on hunger strike to protest detention without trial
Asylum seekers return meals for fifth straight day in protest of administrative detention, NGOs report. Refugees pose in front of a poster of Saharonim prison, during World Refugee Day in tel Aviv on...
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White Night in Tel Aviv: ‘Jewish girls don’t go with blacks’
Although organized anti-African protests and attacks seem to have become less frequent in south Tel Aviv, a group of friends encounters a new type of organized racism during the city’s “White Night”...
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Marketing ‘no-blacks’ apartment buildings in Tel Aviv
Amid efforts to deport, imprison and segregate African asylum seekers in Israel, real estate agents are now marketing ‘clean’ apartment blocs, meaning no foreign workers or asylum seekers will live...
View ArticleWATCH: Refugee health clinic – A step in the right direction?
Aside from emergency services, Israel doesn’t provide asylum seekers with an adequate solution to health and medical problems. This year, however, the Health Ministry established a limited medical...
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Would Israel’s refugee policies stand up in… Nairobi?
Israel could learn a thing or two from the Kenyan High Court’s rebuttal of efforts to lock up asylum seekers. Ibrahim, a refugee from Sudan, holds a document given to him by the UN in Egypt, as he...
View ArticleOpen the Syrian border
The web is full of horrifying pictures of dead civilians in Syria, including dozens or even hundreds of dead children following an alleged chemical attack near Damascus. Watching them is simply...
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Israel’s High Court nixes law allowing detention of asylum seekers without trial
Court orders the state to begin releasing more than 1,700 prisoners immediately. Saharonim and Ktziot prisons, where 2.000 asylum seekers, including children, are held (photo: Noam Sheizaf) In a...
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Has Shas’s attitude toward refugees evolved?
The former Shas chairman was one of the most vocal opponents of African refugees in Israel. But after Yishai was replaced, the party’s attitudes may have changed. +972 speaks to Shas MK Yitzhak Vaknin....
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Knesset passes revised law for detention of African asylum seekers
The previous law was struck down by the High Court, which ordered the state to begin releasing the asylum seekers it was indefinitely detaining. Instead, the Knesset passed a law to circumvent the...
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In act of civil disobedience, 150 Sudanese refugees walk out of Israeli ‘open...
The 150 men walk six hours through the Negev desert in bid to reach Jerusalem, are currently in Be’er Sheva and rebuffing authorities’ offer to bus them back to the ‘Holot’ open prison facility that...
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Turning Israel into a ‘state of all its infiltrators’
The past two Israeli governments successfully turned the issue of African asylum seekers into a threat posed by infiltrators, who were subsequently criminalized. A short examination of the country’s...
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