infiltrators

The right-wing organization, ‘Ad Kan,’ sent its employees to infiltrate human rights organizations and record their every move with hidden cameras. The man on the left is the ‘infiltrator,’ Ezra Nawi is on the right. (Screenshot)

Israel’s volunteer thought-police

Right-wing activists have been infiltrating human rights and anti-occupation organizations. The spies did do serious damage, but to a much bigger target than they intended: Israeli society. Two weeks ago I wrote about a right-wing group trying to recruit people to a “top secret” mission: spying on left-wing organizations in Israel. The outfit was largely a…

By Dahlia Scheindlin January 15, 2016

Palestinian refugees from Syria fleeing the horrors of war on a boat originally headed to Italy.

In English Bibi calls Syrians migrants, in Hebrew they’re ‘infiltrators’

Netanyahu’s message is clear: in Hebrew there is no such thing as a Syrian refugee who might find shelter in Israel; instead, there are infiltrators and terrorists. Israeli officials are rather fond of pointing out the different messages Palestinian and Arab leaders put out in Arabic and English. It turns out Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man September 6, 2015

African Asylum seekers march out of the Holot ‘open prison,’ where they were being held, and march along the highway from Beer Sheva in southern Israel on their way to Jerusalem, December 16, 2013. (Photo: Activestills.org)

The origins and politics of Israel’s refugee debate

An in-depth look at the historical and political developments that shaped Israel’s current African asylum-seeker crisis — and one way to resolve it that meets Israel’s own needs while doing right by those who most need its protection. African asylum seekers in Israel have brought their struggle into the limelight in recent weeks. Through acts…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man January 28, 2014

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African asylum seekers put into a bus in Israel, where authorities have not granted them refugee status in 2013, Jewish asylum seekers in the port of Havana where they were denied asylum in 1939. (Photos: Activestills, U.S. Government)

Turning Israel into a ‘state of all its infiltrators’

The past two Israeli governments successfully turned the issue of African asylum seekers into a threat posed by infiltrators, who were subsequently criminalized. A short examination of the country’s history with infiltrators, however, can give us some important insights. By Eitan Bronstein Aparicio Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar, who’s in favor of expelling refugees from Africa, devised…

By +972 Magazine December 20, 2013

27 year-old Sudanese refugee Abdulla Ali spends his day at Lewinsky Park, Tel Aviv, June 11, 2012 (photo: Roee Ruttenberg)

Sudanese refugees, activists hope for change in policies

Activists believe the deportation of South Sudanese will most probably not lower the number of African migrants in Israel, and it is also a direct violation of Israel’s obligations under international commitments. Israeli authorities have begun arresting dozens of African migrants, as reported by +972’s Mya Guarnieri. It is the latest in an effort to crackdown…

By Roee Ruttenberg June 11, 2012

Is there a link between Israeli profits, anti-African incitement?

As Interior Minister Eli Yishai incites against African asylum seekers–leading to outbreaks of violence against Africans–his ministry issues visas to foreigners who pay tremendous amounts of money to come to Israel. Interior Minister Eli Yishai has called African asylum seekers “infiltrators” who threaten “the Zionist dream,” adding, “Jobs will root them here.” But if foreigners…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat May 23, 2012

New law targeting refugees employs logic of human traffickers

Israel’s “Infiltrators’ Law” strips the refugee and asylum seeker of liberty, dignity and the right to due process. In producing a form of life that is rendered unworthy of living, the government reformulates the strategies employed by notoriously violent refugee smugglers. By Itamar Mann The amendment to the Prevention of Infiltration Law, passed in the…

By +972 Magazine January 12, 2012

Israeli NGO loses lease because of racism

CORRECTION: Due to a serious miscommunication, I mistakenly reported that the ARDC had moved to Jerusalem. Nic Schlagman of the ARDC confirms that the ARDC did lose a lease due to the religious edict mentioned below and that the organization has had “a lot of problems trying to relocate our shelters for the same reason.”…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat December 29, 2011