asylum

Israelis who sign petition for "Danish refugees" recoil in horror when asked to sign for Sudanese

Stop deportation of Danish refugees, except they aren’t Danish. A two-minute video exposes mainstream racism in the Israeli society in an excellent way, it shows how a European refugee would get the support and sympathy of the Israeli society, but an African refugee would be labeled with “disgusting” and “disease,” and should be expelled for being an “ethnic problem.”

UN body "appalled" by Israel's racial segregation policies

Adri Nieuwhof and Mireille Fanon Mendès-France
16 March 2012

Israel is severely criticized for violating the right to equality in a new report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Detaining Africans latest step in making Israel an ethnocracy

Sophie Crowe
Tel Aviv
2 March 2012

The African asylum-seekers have been greeted upon arrival in Israel with a hostile government that offers them no support or protection and wants them out.

Bunker state cemented by new Israeli law against refugees

Jonathan Cook
Nazareth
19 January 2012

Just as Israel did — and still does — with Palestinians wanting to return to their homeland, thousands of desperate asylum seekers from Africa are being criminalized under the “Prevention of Infiltration law.”

Israel jails asylum seekers, labels them "infiltrators"

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Tel Aviv
5 December 2011

An amendment to Israel’s “Prevention of Infiltration” law will mean prison time for asylum seekers and their children — as well as for those who offer them humanitarian aid.

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