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An Israeli Black Panther’s call for true democracy
We did not get to taste one drop of the promises in the Declaration of Independence. Now we must gather all the oppressed groups we have ignored.
By
Reuven Abergel
May 8, 2023
There is no defeating the right without Israel’s oppressed groups
If the Balfour protests are only interested in removing Netanyahu, it will not matter to their leaders how racist the alternative will be.
By
Tom Mehager
January 5, 2021
How ‘cultural racism’ helps Israelis rationalize inequality, discrimination
‘Cultural racism’ blames minorities for their inequality by suggesting that their low social position is due to a lack of effort or failure to adjust to a Western way of life. But active and institutional racism is the real culprit. By Rachel Shenhav-Goldberg It has been 35 years since Ethiopians immigrated to Israel, after leaving…
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July 29, 2019
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As a Palestinian woman, it is my duty to support the Ethiopian struggle
As the most oppressed group in Israeli society, Palestinian citizens of Israel have an obligation to stand with the Ethiopian Israelis protesting against racism and police brutality. The “Black Intifada” erupted just as I was in the middle of a trip to Morocco with my mother. Yet even there, in that quiet kingdom, thousands of kilometers from home, it…
By
Samah Salaime
July 15, 2019
Ethiopians have an opportunity at solidarity with Palestinians. Will they take it?
Solomon Tekah was shot and killed by an Israeli police officer because he was black. As a Palestinian I know exactly what that feels like. By Ashraf Ghandour For over a week I have watched Ethiopian Israelis conduct a loud and righteous struggle against the systematic racism that has held them down for 35 years.…
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+972 Magazine
July 9, 2019
In Israel just as NY, racial profiling harms more than just victims of police killings
The judge who oversaw New York City’s stop and frisk case for nearly a decade responds to the shooting of an unarmed black man in northern Israel. By Shira Scheindlin I have been reading, with a troubling sense of déjà vu, about the police shooting of Solomon Tekah, an unarmed Ethiopian-Israeli man, in Haifa last week. As the judge…
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+972 Magazine
July 7, 2019
‘They’re killing our brothers’: Why Ethiopians shut down Israel for a day
They’re angry at the media, have lost faith in the establishment, and know that just like other Ethiopian Israelis before them, they too may pay a price for the color of their skin. The demonstrators who protested in Tel Aviv yesterday were not ‘anarchists’ — they were frightened young women and men who want to show they haven’t lost their…
By
Yali (Yael) Marom
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Oren Ziv
July 3, 2019
14 Israeli citizens killed by police in five years, not a single indictment
Over the past five years, police have shot dead 14 Israeli citizens. The department tasked with investigating the killings has closed all but two of the cases. Almost all the suspects were people of color. The police killing of 24-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli Yehuda Biadga last month sparked outrage among the Ethiopian community in Israel. Many believe…
By
Oren Ziv
February 4, 2019
‘To be Ethiopian in Israel is to be constantly struggling for something’
The shooting of Yehuda Biadga reignited tensions between Israel’s Ethiopian community and police, who have long been accused of using a heavy hand against the country’s minorities. ‘Police brutality is a result of racism against black people in this country,’ Ziva Mekonen-Degu says. For the third time in as many years, thousands of Ethiopian citizens…
By
Edo Konrad
February 1, 2019
Benjamin Netanyahu is a fake supporter of democracy
Israel’s prime minister wants Iranian protesters to know they have his full support in their struggle against their government. The same can’t be said about millions of people under his own government’s rule. Benjamin Netanyahu likes to present himself as a fervent supporter of democracy and pro-democracy protests. In fact he is a very selective…
By
Edo Konrad
June 29, 2018
Between Ramle and Me: Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates in Hebrew
Three activists, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, an Ethiopian Israeli, and a veteran Mizrahi organizer discuss the applicability of Ta-Nehesi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’ to their struggles in Israel. The killing of black men by police in the United States has, over much of the past half-decade, thrust the issue of American racism back into the…
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Edo Konrad
January 15, 2018
WATCH: Ethiopian-Israelis take struggle to the corridors of power
Two years have passed since Ethiopian-Israelis took the streets to protest police brutality and widespread inequality. Now they are bringing their struggle to the Knesset, which recently marked a ‘Day for Equality for Ethiopian Immigrants.’ Members of Knesset, government officials, and social activists joined together to discuss discrimination in housing, budget allocation, higher education, and more.…
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Social TV
June 15, 2017
PHOTOS: Hundreds call for release of Ethiopian-Israeli held in Gaza
Hundreds gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday to call for the release of Avera Mengistu, who has been missing in Gaza for 1,000 days. In nearby Petah Tikva, hundreds demonstrated against police brutality and threats to freedom of expression. Photos: Oren Ziv / Activestills (Tel Aviv), Orly Noy (Petah Tikva) Hundreds of people marched down…
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Activestills
June 3, 2017
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