Israel to lock thousands of Africans in detention camp

[freepalestine]

Israel to lock thousands of Africans in detention camp

Published Friday, June 8, 2012
Israel's interior minister said on Friday he hoped to soon start moving tens of thousands of illegal African migrants from Tel Aviv and elsewhere to a detention camp being built, one of the largest in the world.

An Israeli court cleared the way on Thursday for the deportation of an estimated 1,500 South Sudanese asylum seekers, after ruling that their lives were no longer threatened in their homeland, despite South Sudan having fought a bloody border dispute with Sudan in recent months.

Interior Minister Eli Yishai told public radio 40,000 Sudanese and Eritreans were next in his sights.

The move comes as racist fever sweeps Israel, with anti-African pogroms by Jewish extremists targeting the asylum seeker community fleeing from warfare and persecution in their homelands.

"There are still about 15,000 from north Sudan and some 35,000 from Eritrea," he said. "I am not allowed to get them out at the moment."

He said he expected legal obstacles would be removed and that the government was also offering a grant to those prepared to leave voluntarily.

"They are close to being expelled either willingly or against their will," he said.

The minister highlighted the racist insecurity of Israel, saying black Africans threatened the Jewish makeup of the country.

"This is a number that threatens the Jewish identity."

As a first step, he said, African asylum seekers would be rounded up and moved to a detention center being built in southern Israel at a projected cost of 250 million shekels ($6.7 million).

"As soon as the facility is completed, which could be in a few months – and alongside it we plan to put up a tent city with all the accepted conditions – then we shall start moving migrants from south Tel Aviv, from (the Red Sea town of) Eilat ... wherever they are."

Interior ministry statistics show that approximately 60,000 African immigrants have entered Israel illegally, the vast majority of them from Sudan and Eritrea.

Yishai said he estimated a further 6,000 may have sneaked across the border from Egypt undetected, but reinforcing the state's racism, he hoped the disturbance of having Africans in Jewish neighborhoods would soon be eradicated.

"I hope that in the coming months we shall be able to move all the (African) infiltrators to detention facilities and allow Israeli citizens in south Tel Aviv and others to live in a proper way ... in quiet and security," he added.

Israel is building a giant, hi-tech security barrier along its 240-kilometre border with the Egyptian Sinai.

So far 170 kilometres have been erected and the project is due to be completed later this year.

Zionism, Israel's founding ideology, has long been accused of being a racist blueprint for the country, as it reinforces Israel's Jewish identity at the expense of indigenous Palestinians and other non-Jewish communities.

Israeli society is, thus, largely intolerant towards non-Jewish communities, with racism a norm.

(Al-Akhbar, AFP)

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Friday, June 08, 2012
Israeli festival of racism: not in the US press
http://angryarab.blogspot.co.uk/2012...not-in-us.html

[Krano]

We need to rescue the poor Jews from the camps and... WAIT WHAT? seems Israel hasn't learned from history.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

'Infiltrators'...fuck, the governments cold, ruthless attitude to non-Jews is quite scary.

[GPDP]

They're not even hiding it anymore at this point. This is very, very troubling.

I think Israel serves as a good indication that a bourgeois state will not necessarily behave better just because it is mostly made up of a formerly persecuted ethnicity. It would be the height of idealism to expect them to "learn from history" or what not.

[ckaihatsu]

This may be symptomatic of the economic crisis, everywhere, since a lack of sound economic standards means that the power structure turns to *other* means of spurious social differentiation -- namely ones based on racism, etc.

[Sea]

I think Israel serves as a good indication that a bourgeois state will not necessarily behave better just because it is mostly made up of a formerly persecuted ethnicity.

Excuse my ignorance.. but did people actually expect them to?

[GPDP]

Excuse my ignorance.. but did people actually expect them to?

Seeing as some even on this board are saying Israel has not learned from the Holocaust, yes, I would say there is definitely still a lot of idealist naivete concerning the conflict.

[Nox]

I can't believe some people in this forum deny that Israel is the new "Nazi Germany"

>Ethnic nationalism
>Lebensraum
>Concentration camps (as seen above)
>State sanctioned murder of ethnic minorities
>A government that supports all of the above

[ВАЛТЕР]

Israel is such a little turd of a country. How they could do this is beyond me.

Israel is the source for much of the antisemitism in the world, and they don't seem to care.

[Rafiq]

Who knows what could come out of this. Has there been any resistance?

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[Le Libérer]

The move comes as racist fever sweeps Israel, with anti-African pogroms by Jewish extremists targeting the asylum seeker community fleeing from warfare and persecution in their homelands.

Doesnt this violate the Geneva Convention?

[Le Rouge]

Inb4 Nazi Israel

[Welshy]

Does anyone know if any of the palestinian groups like the PLFP might reach out to the Africans in solidarity and unite their struggles?

Inb4 Nazi Israel

too late.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Israel keeps hiding behind the Holocaust and the bourgeois governments of the world let them...so depressing. The US will rarely even condemn Israel's policies, and if they do it is never followed up with sanctions or direct UN intervention or anything like what is applied to some Arab or African countries.
At least that is my perception, apologies if I'm mis-informed.

[TheRedJew]

Israeli govrement- racist
Israeli people- mostly socialist
Palestinian people- Islamic facists
Support the Israeli plortarient!

[cynicles]

Israeli govrement- racist
Israeli people- mostly socialist
Palestinian people- Islamic facists
Support the Israeli plortarient!

LMFAO! Are you done hasbara trolling these forums yet? Are you by any chance one of those guys employed by the israeli government to comment in forums?

[Per Levy]

Palestinian people- Islamic facists

thats quite a bold statement to say at least, and it actually borders on racism tbh. something like this i hear here from islamophobic xenophobes that think every human being with a darker skintone is a islamicfascist terrorist. i hope you were just trying to be funny or something.

Support the Israeli plortarient!

i support the proletariat of the world and not just the one of a single country. just saying.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Israeli govrement- racist
Israeli people- mostly socialist
Palestinian people- Islamic facists
Support the Israeli plortarient!

Oh yes, all Palestinians are Fascist!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!

Fuck off,troll.