Tuesday, December 29, 2015

The ethnic cleansing of Africans in Israel


Anti-African racism was peddled by both center-left Zionist Union candidate Isaac Herzog and right-wing Zionist incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu while campaigning ahead of the March election.Oren ZivActiveStills



African refugees jailed in Holot desert prison camp pray after eating a meal breaking the Ramadan fast in July.Oren ZivActiveStills

David Sheen-28 December 2015

Since 2012, the number of non-Jewish refugees from African countries in present-day Israel has shrunk from a peak of approximately 64,000 to fewer than 46,000.
Israel’s successful efforts to reduce the number of Africans living in territory it controls must be recognized for what it is: ethnic cleansing.