Saturday, June 16, 2012

The Discrimination of black Africans In Israel

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/11/israel-african-migrants-deportation_n_1586998.html


http://blackagendareport.com/content/black-migrants-white-israel



DISTRACT AND DECEIVE


Social discrimination is nothing new in Israeli society.  Ashkenazim or European Jews placed themselves at the top of the heap with the Sephardim and Mizrahim (“Easterners”, or Jews from Arab or Muslim countries) in the middle and Arab Muslims and Christians at the bottom since the founding of Israel.  Israel was established as a white settler state in the mold of the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.  A European outpost for Europe’s outcasts.
For decades intra-Israeli bigotry was firmly focused on the Sephardim and Mizrahim with separate and unequal schools, housing and employment prospects.  There was even a major scandal in Israel between 1948 and 1952 involving the disappearance of Yemeni Jewish babies that is still a source of bitterness between the groups.  Even in 2005, there was a significant chasm between the ethnicities in Israel.  According to an article on the Middle East Forum website, “…within the Jewish population, the vast majority of the low income and impoverished families were of Mizrahi origin. The lower-middle class consisted of both Ashkenazi and Mizrahi families, with a small Ashkenazi majority, while the upper-middle and upper classes were almost exclusively Ashkenazi…the Mizrahim tend to have larger families, their economic situation was worse from the start, and their negative image in society has made them less able to catch up to the Ashkenazim.”  The addition of Ethiopian Jews and other immigrants from Africa only added one more group of people to discriminate against. 
The entry of Africans to the mix occurred at the same time that Israeli society and politics were drifting to the right.  As the military became more aggressive toward neighbors and the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, there was a hardening of social attitudes toward anyone defined as the ‘Other’, especially dark-skinned ‘Others’.   Some observers feel that Israel has veered into full on rightwing fascism.  One of the hallmarks of fascist societies is that businesses, the wealthy and religious authorities gain power and “speech rights” at the expense of ordinary citizens. 
This has manifested in Israel with the increased aggression of ultra conservative religious groups against women.  Since 2000, the far right fanatics have harrassed women and girls as young as eight for not dressing with sufficient modesty to please them.  They have ransacked stores suspected of selling racy movies and resorted to firebombing and murdering prostitutes who are trafficked into the country against their will.  Ironically, according to this article, a significant segment of men frequenting those sex slaves, were (you guessed it) members of the ultra orthodox right!
The prevalence of violent sexual references against the African immigrants attacked by mobs is best understood in the light of the severe sexual repression in Israeli society coupled with European anti-African attitudes.  It is similar to the noxious stew of sexual repression, anxiety, anger and hatred among Euro Americans in the Post-Reconstruction US South (and in 2012 America). 
It is notable that, “the May 23rd rally in Tel Aviv was addressed by several leading Israeli politicians, many from the ruling Likud party headed by Benjamin Netanyahu.  Likud Member of Parliament, Miri Regev, told the crowd that “The infiltrators are a cancer in our body.”  Incitement by politicians is a classic tactic of distraction.  With widening inequality and deepening poverty in Israel, it is not a great surprise that rightwing politicians would play the “race card” or that the poorer citizens would fall for such propaganda.  We see enough of it here in this country.  The question is will this behavior continue and worsen or will cooler heads prevail?  The lives and limbs of thousands of Africans depend on the answer.

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THERE IS NO SANCTUARY

First it was lynch mobs the new, "free" (Muslim) Libya and now it's anti-Black race riots in Zionist Israel. There have been similar mass attacks on Blacks in the recent past in Russia and in China as well. Blacks were allegedly dating the wrong people, etc. In all of these cases, when the media bothered to cover it at all, it downplayed the scale of the riots. The only universal belief among humanity in the 21st century appears to be that Black people are less human than all others and, that it is always open season on them. As long as Blacks and Africans believe that the solution to their problems is to flee to some other country, especially those with White dominated societies, instead of staying put and fighting to build better places for their people in their own countries, they will be forever isolated, powerless, and subject to outbursts of violence from lynch mobs and other forms of individual and institutional racial harassment.

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HOGS AT THE TROUGH

Yes, while the self-styled "white" North Africans, Arabs, Chinese, Israelis and Europeans are ever ready to brutalize Africans and African Descent people, they have their snouts deep in the trough of African resources.  From gold, diamonds, coltan and bauxite to flowers, fruit and fish the Global North and Middle East love sucking Africa dry.
The depletion of African fisheries is only one example of global hogs jostling at the trough.  After the Europeans and Taiwanese collapsed their own fisheries with relentless factory trawlers, they moved on to exploit African fisheries.  In some cases, they pay cash strapped African governments a pittance of the value of the fish.  In other cases, they merely steal what they want because they know the African government is in disarray (Somalia) or too weak to drive them away.  
When they take African resources without compensating African people, Global hogs should not be surprised that Africans are forced to their shores just to survive.

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SANDA'S COMMENT DID EXPRESS

sanda's comment did express empathy for the victims of Zionism, didn't contain any Jewish chauvinism, she did not try to blame the Palestinians for the Holocaust nor did she try to justify the disposession of the Palestinians that occured when Israel was founded.
sanda was only referring to the fact that many countries including the United States were restricting Jewish immigration after World War II and those countries tried to steer Jewish refugees from the Holocaust to Palestine rather then accepting them in their own countries. I'm sure that her grandmother wouldn't have supported the expulsion of the Palestinians and wanted Jews and Palestinians to be partners in a Semitic federation rather then to be pitted against each other by foreign powers.
I don't know what your sources are for Jews being responsible for Germany's defeat and the Treaty of Versailles. Jewis German were strongly integrated into German society. Jews considered themselves to be loyal Germans and overwhelmingly supported their country during the war. 10,000 German Jews volunteered for the German armed forces and a 100,000 served in total during World War I out of a Jewish population of 550,000.  During the war Jews, including Zionists were divided on which side they suppored and many supported Germany against Tsarist Russia.
By Germany turning itself around, are you referring to the Third Reich?  The Jewish boycott was in response to attacks on Jews by the Nazi government and encouraged by the Nazi government, anti-semitic legislation and boycotts of Jewish shops. The boycott was a legitimate response to these measures and the boycott organizers thought that they could cause the young Nazi government to fall. If they had succeeded World War II would have been prevented.  Jewish organizations were not at war with the German people and none of them proposed a "final solution" to the German problem.  Why do you keep using cap locking words?

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SANDA, THERE IS NO NEED...

Sanda, there is no need for you to comment on or apologize for Anti-African sentiment and actions in Israel.  That would be like me feeling compelled to comment on or apologize for the xenophobic progroms in South Africa a few years ago.  While we are connected in tenuous ways to the perpetrators of these crimes, we are not responsible for their actions----they are.
It is an unfortunate fact of human nature that traumatized groups of people, sidestep the work of deep healing, choosing instead to dump their rage on others:  
  • Millions of Irish died in a famine following a failure of the potato crop (while their country exported meat and dairy products to England) in the 1840's.  Many of the survivors emigrated to America and focused their wrath against African-Americans---not the English who created the famine.
  • The Germans murdered six million European Jews (along with five hundred thousand Roma/Gypsies and up to five million political disidents, resistors and ordinary people).  Some survivors poured into Palestine, attacked the indigenous people and erected a settler state---not in Europe where they had been hounded since the fall of Rome, but in Palestine where the three Abrahamic faiths (Judeism, Christianity and Islam) had coexisted with minimum friction for centuries.
  • Europeans flooded into South Africa for decades, stealing land, raping, killing and nearly enslaving the native African population.  After a protracted struggle, the descendants of the original indigenous African population won nominal control over their country---only to perpetrate vicious attacks against  African immigrants who came to South Africa seeking refuge and opportunity.  The greatest irony in this situation is that some of the nationalities they attacked (Mozambicans, Zimbabweans and Congolese) had all provided shelter and support to South African freedom fighters during their multi-decade struggle against the European descent government in South Africa. 
It seems the best any of us can do is denounce such behavior and work in the seemingly unending struggle for justice and fairness.

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I JUST REMEMBERED AN INTERVIEW WITH HANS J.

Massaquoi, on the radio, when his autobiography was published, Destined to Witness.  He was born in Germany, mother was German and father was a diplomat from a country in Africa.  And I also remembered hearing that Afro-Germans were killed in Germany.   And that the U.S.A. aided some Nazis in coming to the U.S. for various reasons, such as scientists.  The spelling of Judaism is not how I have ever pronounced it .... (I'm not a good speller in old age.)

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LIKUDNIKS / AIPACERS LOVE PLAYING THE ANTI-SEMITE_HOLOCAUST CARD

As if its impossible for {white} Jews to also be racist bigots. This race riot was stoked by racist rhetoric from Hard core Israeli Gov't Officials- not just ordinary street thug bigots.
So these folks are having a fit over 50,000-60,000 African asylum seekers, YET have absorbed 1,200,000 - 1,500,000 Russians [= 1/5th of Israel's population] over the past 15 - 20 yrs- as the article notes- half of whom don't even pretend to be Jewish [FYI: Also in recent yrs Israeli Gov't policy is to phase out immigration of bona-fide JEWS from Ethiopia- some of who've also been targets of some acts of racism]. And its common knowledge in Israel that Russian mafia elements are involved in couterfeiting & international drug & prostitution trafficing rings. Plus A few yrs ago some Russian youth w full Israelis status- even painted Swastikas on a Jerusalem Synagogue. Yet Russian's have NOT seen any-where near this kind of venomous hatred. 
Also note-worthy is the fact that most of the victims of Israel's race-riots are Sudanese- Yet last yr South Sudan was cheering & waving Israeli & US flags as their supposed 'best friends' & supporters RE: S.Sudan's protracted war of so-called 'independence' vs Khartoum's Gov't [w friend's like these...].
And I see that the US' Lame-stream media has generally failed to even mention this story. Because it would challenge to the standard lame-stream narrative from hard-core Likudnik / AIPACers of Holocaust victim-hood via 'alleged' Anti-Semitism of anyone who dares question the policies of Likudnik / AIPACers.

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