Habtom Zarhum

Jewish settlers train firing at pictures of terrorists at the Gush Etzion shooting range on July 18, 2012. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
Israel’s new gun reforms will end in blood
Over the past few years, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has been gradually making it easier for average Israelis to obtain gun licenses. But instead of increasing security, it will only put more people, especially women, at risk. By Rela Mazali Israel’s newspapers have recently reported that tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of previously ineligible…
By +972 Magazine August 28, 2018
Population and Immigration Authority agents arrest a Filipina and her daughter in south Tel Aviv, taking them to a deportation detention facility at Ben-Gurion Airport prior to their deportation, August 16, 2011. It was the first documented arrest in which a child of foreign immigrant workers, born, raised and educated in Israel was arrested and deported. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)
What does the future hold for non-Jews in the Jewish state?
A new book about Israel’s crusade against asylum seekers and undocumented workers strikes at an essential truth about the precarious status of non-Jews in a self-defined Jewish state. “The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others,” Mya Guarnieri Jaradat, Pluto Press, 2017. In a small apartment in south Tel Aviv, a Filipina woman hides her…
By Natasha Roth-Rowland May 4, 2017
An armed security guard shoots a Palestinian teenager after she attempted to stab passersby, Jerusalem, November 24, 2015. (screenshot: CCTV)
Why aren’t Israelis talking about extrajudicial killings?
Two Palestinian teenage girls were shot at point-blank range after attempting to stab passersby with scissors. Who said there is no death penalty in Israel? By Rhona Burns On Tuesday two Palestinian teenagers left their homes and went out to attack Jewish Israelis in Jerusalem with a pair of scissors. Unsurprisingly, the girls, 14 and 16…
By +972 Magazine November 25, 2015
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The ‘lynching’ of Habtom Zarhum: A history of incitement
Activists, asylum seekers and refugee advocates in Israel are pointing to the incitement directed toward African asylum seekers — by politicians, state institutions and the media — as necessary context for the vigilante mob and shooting that killed an Eritrean asylum seeker. An Eritrean asylum seeker was mistaken for a Palestinian during a shooting attack at…
By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat October 20, 2015
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