israelfacts: Handcuffed African immigrants sit in a bus after they were arrested by the immigration
israelfacts:Handcuffed African immigrants sit in a bus after they were arrested by the immigration authority in South Tel Aviv, on December 22, 2012. Israel is deporting Africans and also planning to put tens of thousands into detention camps.Knesset Member Miri Regev — a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud Party — called the refugees “a cancer in our body” and Danny Danon — also a Likud Knesset Member — wrote on his Facebook page referring to the Africans as “infiltrators”. Interior Minister Eli Yishai said the African asylum seekers threaten “the Zionist dream,” adding, “Jobs will root them here.”See also:Why is the birth rate in Israel’s Ethiopian community declining? Ethiopian women who immigrated to Israel were coaxed into agreeing to injections of long-acting birth control drugs, or told they would not be allowed into the countryIsraeli woman has her photo taken with Africans, titles the Facebook album: “Late night tour of the Tel Aviv Safari”, captions the photo: “There are no signs forbidding taking pictures with the animals. There were no signs that forbid feeding, but we passed on that.”(Photo: Oren Ziv / Activestills.org) -- source link
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