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Tel Aviv race riots shock Israel

Hundreds of people demonstrate in the impoverished Hatikva neighborhood of southern Mediterranean city of Tel Aviv.

[b]VIOLENT race riots that shook south Tel Aviv overnight have sparked shock in Israel, but also prompted top-level calls for the immediate arrest and expulsion of tens of thousands of African migrants./b]

The latest unrest to sweep the impoverished neighbourhoods around Tel Aviv's central bus station erupted when a demonstration of around 1000 people who were protesting against the rising number of Africans moving into the area, turned violent.

"Shock, violence and hatred of foreigners in Tel Aviv" was the headline in the Maariv daily, which described scenes of chaos as demonstrators went on the rampage with sticks and stones, attacking African-run shops and smashing up a car driven by two African men.

"Blacks out!" shouted demonstrators in the crowd, while others yelled: "Send the Sudanese back to Sudan," several news reports said, as other protesters derided the "bleeding-heart leftists" working to help them.

Most reports said the rally turned nasty after the crowd was whipped up by several racist speeches by right-wing MPs, several of them from the ruling Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"The infiltrators are a cancer in our body," Likud MP Miri Regev told the crowd, as fellow MP Danny Danon shouted: "The infiltrators must be expelled from Israel! Expulsion now!"

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said 20 people had been arrested on suspicion of vandalising shops and attacking cars driven by Africans, but added that there were no reports of anyone being injured.

The police have also extended the remand of seven Israeli minors accused of attacking African immigrants earlier this week, he said.

Interior ministry statistics show there are more than 60,000 African immigrants living illegally in Israel. Some are refugees fleeing persecution back home, while others are economic migrants.

The issue of illegal immigration from Africa has thrown into relief sharp divisions within Israel, with many top officials, including Mr Netanyahu, warning that the growing number of "infiltrators" poses a major threat to the security and identity of the Jewish state.

There was no official response to the violence until last night when Netanyahu issued a statement promising to resolve "the problem of the infiltrators" by sending them back to their home countries in a process which he said would start "soon."

"I want to make clear that there is no place for the statements nor the actions which we saw last night," he said.

"I am saying this both to public figures as well as to residents of south Tel Aviv, whose pain I understand. We will resolve the problem and we will do it responsibly."

President Shimon Peres said that "hating foreigners is against the foundations of Judaism."

"I'm well aware of the difficulties encountered by south Tel Aviv residents and the harsh reality they have to deal with, but violence is not the solution to the problem," he said in a statement released by his office.

And in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, hundreds took to the streets in anti-racism rallies.

Some 200 people carrying signs saying: "Racism is a cancer in the body of the Israeli nation,":"Enough to incitement" and "I am also a refugee" marched a short distance to the premier's residence.

In Tel Aviv, a similar number of men and women strode through the city's streets, starting near the central bus station.

The demonstrators had signs stating "we are all refugees" and "united against racism," and chanted slogans against Mr Netanyahu and other right-wing lawmakers.

But Interior Minister Eli Yishai, who has frequently tried to expel non-Jewish immigrants sparking accusations of racism, demanded that all Africans living illegally in Israel be put "behind bars."

"We must put all these infiltrators behind bars in detention and holding centres, then send them home because they come and take work from Israelis," he told army radio.

Unless the government took urgent action, there would "soon be half a million to a million, and we cannot lose our country to this," he said.

The violence made headlines in all the Israeli media, with army radio denouncing it as a "pogrom."

Residents of south Tel Aviv accuse the immigrants of bringing a wave of theft and violent sex crimes to the area, and have expressed fury over what they see as government inaction.

In a move sure to further raise tensions, a Tel Aviv court indicted two African migrants from Sudan and Eritrea on suspicion of raping a woman near the central bus station last week.

And last week, an Israeli was charged with arson after hurling Molotov cocktails at the homes of African migrants in a move reportedly connected to the arrest of three Eritreans in connection with another rape involving a 15-year-old Israeli girl.

In a bid to halt the influx, Israel has been building a 250km fence along the Egyptian border. It has also built a vast detention centre near the border to house anyone caught crossing the frontier.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/tel-aviv-race-riots-shock-israel/story-e6frg6so-1226366536966

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jewish diaspora attitudes vs jews in israel

nationalism for me but not for thee.

Israel: Race Riot as Tel Aviv's Poor Hunt Down 'Cancerous' African Migrants

Residents of a low-income Tel Aviv neighbourhood descended to the streets, waving Israeli flags and chanting "Deport the Sudanese" and "Infiltrators get out of our homes" to protest against the increase of African migrants moving into the area and the country.

The protest rapidly turned violent and police arrested 17 people with charges ranging from assault to vandalism. Some of them were still beating up migrants when they were arrested.

Protesters in the Hatikva neighbourhood set trash cans alight, broke some stores window and attacked African migrants who were passing-by. They also attacked an African migrant driving through the area and broke his car's windows...

...The protesters were backed by Likud Knesset member Miri Regev who participated in the march and said "the Sudanese were a cancer in our body", Haaretz 's report added.

Protesters complained about Prime Minister's Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the asylum seekers "problem" with some even carrying banners in support of Interior Minister Eli Yishai.

Yishai had called for the detention and expulsion of all asylum seekers earlier this week.

Interviewing Interior Minister Eli Yishai, Israeli Army Radio likened the violence to pogrom attacks on Jews in 19th century Europe.

Yishai retorted by saying Sudanese and Eritreans migrants were responsible for a rise in crime.

"I cannot judge a man whose daughter gets raped. I cannot judge a young woman who cannot walk home," said Yishai,

"I cannot under any circumstances judge people who get abused and harmed, and who are then confronted by the state, which says, 'Why do you behave this way to the foreigners?'"

The protests came as last week, an Israeli man was charged with arson after he threw seven Molotov cocktails at the homes of African migrants.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/344858/20120524/protesters-attack-african-migrants-tel-aviv.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcfZyCebQZk

the light onto nations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGJVX6jYjI0

African Migrants Attacked in Tel Aviv

Speaking in Tel Aviv on Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to address the concerns of the protesters, “whose pain I understand,”...

...Three days before the riot, Mr. Netanyahu said that the number of illegal immigrants in Israel was approaching 60,000 and “could easily grow to 600,000″ without decisive action. Such a large number of foreigners, he warned, “would inundate the state and, to a considerable degree, cancel out its image as a Jewish and democratic state.”

Yair Lapid, a former television journalist and emerging opposition leader, connected the attacks on the African community to the race riots against Jews in Europe in earlier ages in a statement posted on Facebook. According to a translation of his statement by Ynet News, Mr. Lapid expressed his support for “the arrest and deportation of infiltrators,” and the completion of the fence, but blamed three members of Israel’s Parliament, the Knesset, for provoking the violence with angry speeches at the rally.

“When I see a pogrom led by inciters like” the Knesset members Danny Danon, Miri Regev and Michael Ben-Ari, Mr. Lapid wrote, “I wonder how they have the nerve to call themselves Jews.”

“They don’t understand the meaning of Jewish morals or collective Jewish memory, nor do they understand the meaning of Jewish existence,” he wrote.

In her speech to the rally, Ms. Regev, a member of Parliament for Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud Party, said, “the Sudanese are a cancer in our body.” She also attacked Israeli “left-wingers” for petitioning the country’s supreme court to delay the expulsion of migrants.

Two journalists who attended the protest — Haggai Matar, a blogger, and Ilan Lior, a reporter for Haaretz — wrote that they were harassed and threatened by members of the crowd who mistook them for Israeli activists.

In an account published by the Israeli news blog +972, Mr. Matar wrote:

Quote:

It all started with one woman who came at me out of nowhere, and started screaming: “You throw stones at soldiers! Shame on you! Get the hell out of here!” I tried to say that I have never thrown stones at anybody in my life, but she was not exactly in the mood for dialogue. “You lie! I see you every week on television throwing stones at soldiers and calling them Nazis!”

Mr. Lior, in his account, noted that Mr. Ben-Ari had “also pointed a finger of blame at the left-wingers, and ‘tzfonbonim,’ ” using the Hebrew slang for “affluent, stuck-up residents of north Tel Aviv.”

Quote:

Just moments after Ben-Ari’s speech, I found myself in a surreal situation. “You’re a left-winger that throws rocks at soldiers at checkpoints,” one protester called at me. “You’re a traitor, we’ll finish you,” threatened another. I tried to explain that I was a journalist, and not a left-wing activist, that I’ve never protested at checkpoints, nor thrown a rock at anyone. I told them that I came to give a voice to the residents’ calls, to their struggles, and to pass the message on to those who make decisions. No one listened.

As the situation quickly deteriorated, Mr. Lior wrote, police officers encouraged him to run, but hundreds of protesters swarmed after him.

Quote:

Some of them caught up. One grabbed my shirt, and ripped it, while threatening to murder me. For the first time, I saw true hatred in the eyes of another person. The officers pushed me into a patrol car, in an attempt to protect me. The patrol car became the center of the chaos. The masses surrounded it, protesters banged on the doors and windows, rocked the car from side to side. “Traitor,” they yelled.

The attacks after the rally were not the first time that Israelis upset with the presence of African migrants have vented their rage at fellow citizens concerned with the welfare of refugees who might face persecution in countries like Sudan or Eritrea.

Yossi Gurvitz, an activist blogger, reported in a post for +972 illustrated with video that vitriol and racist obscenities were directed at his girlfriend when she heckled Mr. Ben-Ari during a smaller protest on Tuesday.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/african-migrants-attacked-in-tel-aviv/

Stupid is one thing jews are not. OK for them to advocate throwing the borders of white countries open, but they'd neve rinflict such idiocy upon themselves.

Night of attacks against African refugees, Tel Aviv, Israel, 23.05.2012

Mob shouting racist slogans against Africans shortly after having been prevented by police from reaching Levinsky Park, mostly inhabited by African refugees, in a spontaneous march which begun immediately after a speech by MK Michael Ben-Ari at a protest against African refugees and asylum seekers in Tel Aviv's Hatikva neighborhood on May 23, 2012.

Blood on the streets of Tel Aviv's Hatikva neighborhood after attacks on Africans by a mob following a protest against African refugees and asylum seekers in Tel Aviv's Hatikva neighborhood on May 23, 2012.

An Eritrean woman sits next to a looted cash register, looking at her damaged shop after it was attacked by a mob following protest against African refugees and asylum seekers in Tel Aviv's Hatikva neighborhood on May 23, 2012.
The shop, opened 2 month ago, was destroyed and looted during 20 min without any intervention of the police.

An Eritrean refugee holds the stones that were thrown at his shop a few minutes before,in the background, 2 Eritrean women emerging out of the restroom where they hid during the attack.
The shop, opened only 2 months ago was destroyed and looted during 20 min without any intervention by the police.

Eritrean refugees standing in their shop less then a minute after their shop was attacked by a mob following protest against African refugees and asylum seekers in Tel Aviv's Hatikva neighborhood on May 23, 2012.

The mob setting garbage on fire and singing "The people wants the Africans to be burned" after a protest against African refugees and asylum seekers in Tel Aviv's Hatikva neighborhood on May 23, 2012.

This thread is so anti semetic that know it alls on the subject cannot even bare to post in response

bobbythefap1 wrote on May 25^th, 2012 at 3:41pm:

This thread is so anti semetic that know it alls on the subject cannot even bare to post in response

Funny, i would think that anything that points out an issue with Israel is by nature automatically anti semetic. So suck it up and look at the record. Israel has some big work to do as they never quite get what has happened, what is happening and what is going to happen if they keep pushing down their current path to destruction.

nairbe wrote on May 25^th, 2012 at 9:00pm:

bobbythefap1 wrote on May 25^th, 2012 at 3:41pm:

This thread is so anti semetic that know it alls on the subject cannot even bare to post in response

Israel is dangerous and the people in power there would not have a problem launching a nuke and destroying the world because as the religious nutjobs they are they believe a fairy tale character will save them or whatever.

This is what happens when the rich bring in immigrants in large numbers to service their needs more cheaply, the locals get pissed off, this is not so much racism as being pissed off at being shafted by big business abusing your economic rights through economic migration.

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