It is bothersome, that there is so much hatred for Africans..If its not brothers and sisters being lynched in places like Libya or being hunted down in Mali and Sudan or being demonized and scapegoated here in the US, we have Israel which is supposed to be a beacon for Democracy in the Middle East demonstrating venom and hatred on par with any KKK and Neo-Nazi group…
For many this will comes as no surprise given the fact that Israel aligned itself with South Africa’s Apartheid Regime selling it weapons and helping them develop its nucleur capabilities, when the rest of the world was attempting to free Nelson Mandela and overturn that wretched system of government.
In recent weeks we saw stories surface about Israel segregating its kindergarten classes..You can read about that here in the Daily Beast.
Equally shameful is the NY Times, the so-called ‘paper of record‘ where they ‘publish all the news fit to print‘. According to film maker Max Blumenthal refused to run the video.. We guess showing Israelis being racist toward Africans is not newsworthy.. Here’s what Blumenthal said about this rejection of his film Israel’s new racism: the persecution of African migrants in the Holy Land
I was asked to submit something by The New York Times op docs, a new section on the website that published short video documentaries. I am known for short video documentaries about the right wing in the US, and extremism in Israel. They solicited a video from me, and when I didn’t produce it in time, they called me for it, saying they wanted it. So I sent them a video I produced with my colleague, David Sheen, an Israeli journalist who is covering the situation of non-Jewish Africans in Israel more extensively than any journalist in the world.
We put together some shocking footage of pogroms against African communities in Tel Aviv, and interviews with human rights activists. I thought it was a well-done documentary about a situation very few Americans were familiar with. We included analysis. We tailored it to their style, and of course it was rejected without an explanation after being solicited. I sent it to some other major websites and they have not even responded to me, when they had often solicited articles from me in the past.
Here’s what film maker David Sheen had to say about his documentary..
I have been carefully chronicling the racist attacks against non-Jewish African asylum-seekers in Israel for several years. In January 2012, an organization in Israel that aids African asylum-seekers, the African Refugee Development Center, asked me to author on their behalf a report to the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). After receiving the report in text and video form, the UN committee urged the Israeli government to prevent racist attacks against Africans in Israel.
The Israeli government ignored the UN’s call, and the following month, Israelis firebombed a kindergarten for African children in Tel Aviv, igniting a wave of violence against non-Jewish African people in Israel that is still ongoing. Below are links to the UN reports, in text and video form, social media stories about the recent violence, footage from two years of anti-African rallies, and extended one-on-one interviews about opposition to the presence of Africans in Israel.
Below you can see the footage…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPxv4Aff3IA
Below is a much longer documentary breaking all this down called Racism Report: Africans in Israel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUivyO5T_34
Unfortunate
AND PEOPLE TELL ME ,YOUR SO CYNICAL AND PESSIAMISTIC,SHIT IF YOU HAD A BRAIN THAT WORKS,YOU ‘D BE TOO. MF’S NEED TO STOP WITH ALL THE OUTSIDE MEDIA MADNESS,WACKY RAPPERS AND ASSORTED TV/MOVIE BULLSHIT.. MOST ARE TO FAR GONE TO EVEN BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE NEW WORLD WIDE FACE OF AFRIKAN GENOCIDE LOOKS LIKE.WE DREAM,SCAM AND SCHEME THRU THIS MYOPIC PLACE CALLED AMERKKKA.LIKE RAT/BABIES,WE DRUG,DRAG AND DIE FASTER AND YOUNGER.
WHAT?? I CAN”T HEAR YOU!!!
As a Jew and Israeli, I am sorry to see behavior like this from other Israelis. Jewish people who have lived in Israel all their lives have no idea of what it is like to be discriminated against, which is good because that is why Israel was created as a place to escape anti-Semitic oppression. But on the other hand, we need to show compassion to strangers because we were once strangers in other countries.
Israel is a western imperialist outpost; a settler colony that brings nothing but instability to the region through the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and also with its neo liberal economic policies which line the pockets of corporations and all on the public dime. Free Palestine and fyuck the United snakes of AmeriKKKa!
When I first saw it, it made me sick, and here is WHY!
Here are some other interesting facts that Jews always seem to forget:
Israel is not their land, Israel or Israelite’s were a tribe in Palestine since history has been written. Jews never had their OWN land. So how can they claim or make demands for something that was never theirs to begin with.
Oh, how could I forget…every time there is a issue they bring up the Holocaust and how they deserve their own land (smdh), but this is where they differ very much from us (African, African-American, Black people in-general), they unite and fight as ONE to achieve one goal, regardless of their personal differences. Many families in America never seen their 40 acres and a mule, the 100’s of Millions that died during slavery or the million that dies every year, we are trying to forget.
Would we achieve the same goals or even more as the jews if we could UNITE as ONE RACE for one Cause?! I am sure of it, but my hopes are slim for this every to take place in my lifetime, because of the way the majority of our minds are trained.
Davey, as always, THANKS for highlighting things like this. In my opinion, one thing that is a by-product or better yet, originating factor of this racist manifestation, is this fallacious concept that the term “Jewish” or “Semitic” is exclusive to Europeans, who co-opted those 2 things in the first place. That’s like saying that the only Methodists are white, negating the fact that Richard Allen created the AFRICAN Methodist Episcopal Church, and all its African-descended members, or saying that the only Baptists are white, when every year a ton of Black Baptists have a conference. Hitler even had a concentration camp in Namibia and produced a propaganda film, “Deutsche Afrika-schau”, he killed a bunch of Afrikan Jews in Germany, and long before that, historians such as Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannanon (an Ethiopian Jew) pointed out in his book ,”WE THE BLACK JEWS”, from the ancient words of ancient historian Manetho, that the original Jews were African. Jewish is not a race, and it is not exclusive to the white race. We also have heard of Ethiopian Jewish Women being forcibly sterilized by the powers-that-be, as well as all the racist entry procedures reserved for the Falashas (Afrikan Jews) that come to reside in Isreal. Also, historian Dr. Runoko Rashidi has done much research on this as well with his GLOBAL AFRICAN PRESENCE seried. I also recall artists such as Uno Tha Prophet bringing light to this situation. At the end of the day, in reaching a solution, we have to continue highlighting the truth about this part of the world, how it was formed, what year, who the players and funders are, and all the ramifications associated with it. Thank you.
SOURCES:
WE THE BLACK JEWS (Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannon)
Hitler’s Forgotten Victims- Dr. Clare Lusane
Global African Presence – Runoko Rashidi
http://propaganda-history.blogspot.com/2010/12/blacks-afro-germans-in-nazi-germany-and.html?m=1
and many more.