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How Eritrean regime agents persecute asylum seekers in Israel
Israeli authorities have long turned a blind eye to the threat Eritreans face from their own government, leaving the community desperate to protect itself.
By
Guli Dolev-Hashiloni
September 5, 2023
A lesson on Israeli ‘democracy’ from an 18-year-old draft refuser
Previous generations of Israelis closed their eyes to the oppression of Palestinians, Mizrahim, and asylum seekers. Our generation can be different.
By
Yahli Agai
September 5, 2023
A Palestinian trans woman’s story peels away Israel’s pinkwashing veil
From oppressive institutions to social prejudices, MC's ordeal embodies the dark reality of LGBTQ Palestinians who thought they could find safety in Israel.
By
Sharona Weiss
June 8, 2023
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Photos of the week: Asylum seekers march for freedom in Europe and Israel
This week: activists in Europe and in Israel’s Holot detention center mark International Refugee Day with marches for asylum seekers’ rights. Click for +972’s full coverage of the asylum seeker struggle in Israel Photo diary: Inside ‘Holot’ detention center for asylum seekers
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Activestills
June 27, 2014
Voices from Israel’s ‘open prison’: Feeling caged in Holot
‘My curiosity drives me to walk around my prison, where I stand like an inmate near those massive buildings, guarded by imposing patrol towers.’ Musings by a Sudanese refugee in Holot prison. By Hassan Shakur I live in a rugged and semi-abandoned grassland. It is a very remote and isolated area that doesn’t seem to…
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+972 Magazine
June 25, 2014
Photos of the week: Devastation for the Negev Bedouin
This week: The Bedouin village of Al-Arakib is destroyed for the 65th time, Palestinians and Israelis commemorate 47 years of occupation, administrative detainees on hunger strike, Israeli soldiers break their silence in public, demonstrations against asylum seekers in south Tel Aviv and more.
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Activestills
June 13, 2014
PHOTOS: French authorities threaten to destroy migrant camps
Migrants in Calais, France occupy a food distribution center to protest Paris’s threat to evict them from their camps. Groups of migrants set up camps on the coast in hopes of sneaking across the channel to the UK. By Anne Paq/Activestills.org Despite rainy weather, hundreds of migrants occupied a food distribution center in the French…
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Activestills
May 30, 2014
Photos of the week: Mourning in Ramallah
This week: families mourn the deaths of two Palestinians teens, going back to Lifta, Palestinian Christians refuse the military draft, immigration police raids on asylum seeker businesses, and more.
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Activestills
May 22, 2014
WATCH: Confronting an Israeli minister for flouting int’l law
Sadiq al-Sadiq was returned to Israel earlier this month after finding himself being sent — against his will — back to Sudan, from where he fled persecution and genocide. Sadiq is just one of hundreds or thousands of Sudanese who have been pressured to leave Israel. Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar, who is responsible for the…
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+972 Magazine
May 19, 2014
Photos of the week: Prisoner solidarity and Nakba memory
This week: Prisoner solidarity, Nakba commemoration, Bedouin steadfastness, Gaza border shootings, asylum seeker struggles, price tag profanity, slut walk exposure, and draft refuser support
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Activestills
May 16, 2014
Sudanese asylum seeker returns to Israel following ‘deportation’
Sadiq al-Sadiq says he never agreed to return to his home country, where he fears persecution. Israeli authorities, however, say he signed a document agreeing to just that. Based on Avi Belcherman’s Hebrew article on +972’s sister site, “Local Call” Adapted by Michael Omer-Man A Darfurian asylum seeker who left the Israel last week under…
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+972 Magazine
May 9, 2014
Israel hasn’t recognized one Sudanese refugee
Worldwide, the refugee recognition rate for Sudanese is nearly 70 percent. Out of the 10,000 in Israel, not one has been granted refugee status. By Elizbaeth Tsurkov The State of Israel recognized just over 200 refugees ever since it signed the Refugee Convention in 1954, but none of them are Sudanese nationals. You read it right…
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+972 Magazine
May 8, 2014
PHOTOS: African refugee protest leader sent to Holot detention center
Mutasim Ali, a Sudanese asylum seeker and one of the leaders of the African refugee protest movement in Israel, was sent to the Holot open detention center in Israel’s south around noon on Monday. Like other asylum seekers, Ali receive a summons to Holot during a visit to renew his visa at the Interior Ministry…
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Activestills
May 5, 2014
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