Netanyahu fires-em-up. Israelis attack African migrants during protest
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- Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 21:42:59 -0500
Israelis attack African migrants during protest against refugees
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Seventeen arrested after protesters go on 'unbridled rampage' targeting
African workers and looting shops serving refugees
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/24/israelis-attack-african-migrants-protest
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Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem
guardian.co.uk, .
Thursday 24 May 2012 06.14 EDT
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An African migrant in a car with shattered windows after a protest
against African refugees and asylum-seekers in Tel Aviv turned violent.
Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP
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Demonstrators have attacked African migrants in Tel Aviv in a protest
against refugees and asylum-seekers that indicates an increasingly
volatile mood in Israel over what it terms as "infiltrators".
Miri Regev, a member of the Israeli parliament, told the crowd "the
Sudanese are a cancer in our body". The vast majority of asylum-seekers
in Israel are from Sudan and Eritrea.
Around 1,000 demonstrators took part in the demonstration on Wednesday
night, waving signs saying: "Infiltrators, get out of our homes" and
"Our streets are no longer safe for our children." A car containing
Africans was attacked and shops serving the refugee community were
looted. Seventeen people were arrested.
A reporter for the Israeli daily Maariv described it as an "unbridled
rampage" and explosion of "pent-up rage".
"Suddenly one of [the protesters] noticed that in one of the cars
waiting for traffic to move were two young dark-skinned men, apparently
foreign workers. For the hundreds of inflamed and enraged young people,
that was all they needed. Within minutes, they dismantled " there is no
other word to describe it " the car and its passengers. Some of them
smashed the windows with their hands and rocks, others kicked the car,
bent the plastic parts and tried to attack the people inside. .
'I'm not from Sudan, I'm not from Sudan,' the driver tried to tell the
assailants, but nobody was listening at that stage."
The protest followed a claim on Sunday by the prime minister, Binyamin
Netanyahu, that "illegal infiltrators [were] flooding the country" and
threatening the security and identity of the Jewish state. "This
phenomenon is very grave and threatens the social fabric of society, our
national security and our national identity," he said.
The government is constructing a fence along the Egypt-Israel border to
deter migrants and asylum-seekers, and is building what will be the
world's largest detention centre, capable of holding up to 11,000
people.
It is also seeking court approval to deport up to 3,000 refugees back to
South Sudan, despite concerns over the humanitarian crisis there and
human rights violations.
Israel's police chief has urged the state to allow asylum-seekers to
work in order to avoid economic and social problems.
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