African Jews denied citizenship after years living in Israel
JVL Introduction
Many visitors to this website may be surprised that we are sharing this blog from The Times of Israel but it highlights that even when Black people are fully engaged in Israeli society, even including participation in the Military, that will not necessarily mean they have any citizenship status in Israeli society or necessarily protect them from deportation.
The community of African Hebrews is tiny, initially welcomed into Israel, their “right to return” was retrospectively stripped in 1970 shortly after their arrival.
Campaigners against deportation of members of this community note the different treatment of 400,000 non Jews arriving from the USSR. Only racism can explain this.
The Minister of the Interior (equivalent to our Home Secretary) sees no reason to change the current policy that “unapologetically discriminates against the African Hebrew community on the basis that its members constitute a foreign presence in the State of Israel.” that, according to a lawyer from the Israeli Immigration Policy Center, “presents a problem to the social fabric of the society.” As the article says, “this characterization of the African Hebrews as an adverse, outside, or foreign presence is not based on the facts, or on this community’s contribution to society”.
Now we could say more about a passing resemblance to the Windrush scandal (compensation for which is long overdue for most affected, dozens of whom have died); and we certainly note the echoes within the proposals in the Nationality and Borders Bill (especially Clause 9 on Citizenship); and, of course, this article and, indeed, the campaign, fails to draw lessons for the treatment of Palestinians.
It is clearly an example of racism within Israel and is also a long way from what we have learned from centuries of persecution of Jews and needs to be more widely known.
This article was originally published by Times of Israel on Tue 18 Jan 2022. Read the original here.
For African Hebrews, the deportation nightmare continues
In a decision that smacks of discrimination, Israel is set to expel 135 members of the community, most of whom were born here and have relatives that served in the IDF
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The Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem has form on this, we have form in this country with Chief Rabbi’s
So let’s go with Hate Preachers and let’s get a response from them on this article
This is a fine example of an article that needs to be published in the MSM and toilet papers
Let us know who refuses to publish it
Echoes of the past, who would have thought it possible? We see such here in the UK, excruciating.
I know nothing of the so-called “extremist Hebrew Israelite groups in the US”. Could another reader explain?
What a disgrace! For anyone who still hadn’t got the message that Israel is an apartheid state, this exposes Israel as racist through and through. I took up the option of messaging the Minister of the Interior. Hope I won’t have the Israeli Embassy on my back!
Wikipedia article about “Hebrew Israelites”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hebrew_Israelites
I can hardly believe this blatant discrimination. So it seems that to be accepted in Israel you have to be the right type of Jewish. After centuries of persecution of Jewish people all over the world and their being marked out as a “different” group, the Israeli government are even treating African Jews as being unacceptable in the modern Israel. What hope for the Palestinians in the face of this type of racism?