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These Sudanese were deported by Israel. Now they’re saving others from war
Israel carries heavy responsibility for denying asylum to Sudanese who are being forced to flee their homes yet again. Initiatives like ours can help them.
By
Rami Gudovitch
May 31, 2023
What is behind Israel’s warming ties to Sudan?
Israeli-Sudanese relations have been fraught with public tensions and secret collaborations — with the fate of refugees in Israel hanging in the balance.
By
Inbal Ben Yehuda
March 1, 2020
The fight to expose Israel’s arms sales to the world’s most repressive regimes
In the span of less than 10 years, activists from across the political spectrum went head to head with the Israeli government, trying to bring an end to its arms exports to tyrannical governments worldwide.
By
Sahar Vardi
December 25, 2019
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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…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
January 28, 2014
Prison break: African asylum seekers claim their place on the Israeli political map
In Israel’s most vibrant demonstration ever to take place on the refugee issue, and in two bold escapes from an ‘open prison,’ African asylum seekers are starting to present themselves as a political force to be reckoned with. Saturday night was something like no one in Israel had ever seen before. It was supposed to…
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Haggai Matar
December 24, 2013
A year in review: Anti-African racism and asylum seekers in Israel
While most Israelis were focused on the latest war on Gaza or the last election, verbal incitement, physical attacks, incarceration without trial and forced deportation of Africans continued unabated. A timeline of Israel’s war on African asylum-seekers between November 2012 and May 2013. By David Sheen Last Thursday, May 23, 2013, marked exactly one year to…
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May 29, 2013
Israeli bureaucracy leaves Sudanese vulnerable to arrest
Sudanese refugees from the Nuba Mountains are being registered by Israel’s Interior Ministry as South Sudanese, making it difficult for them to find and keep work, pay for rent, bills, or food, and subjecting them to potential arrest and deportation. How would you react if someone told you that your name was no longer your name? Even…
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
November 11, 2012
Occupation, imprisonment of refugees defile Israeli identity
Israeli-Jewish identity should be one that pursues justice for the collective and perseveres in the fight against oppression. Plans to destroy hundreds of homes or imprison thousands of refugees defile and contradict all that is good in that very identity. By Moriel Rothman Scenario One. Imagine: You wake up in a place that is not familiar. You…
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October 10, 2012
Israeli children deported to South Sudan succumb to malaria
Three months ago, Interior Minister Eli Yishai deported several hundred families from Israel to South Sudan, despite unequivocal statements by human rights group that mere fact of the established state is far from the offering the safety that would allow for these families’ return; the request was at least to extend the group exemption from…
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Dimi Reider
October 8, 2012
Photo essay: Refugees uprooted again in bid to expel foreigners
Text by: Rami Gudovitch All photos by: Activestills.org “Do you know, Rami, that I was in ‘Mustafa Mahmoud?’” Regina, a 12-year-old South Sudanese girl, asked me after she and her family were released from 27 days in an Israeli prison. Her father, a tall man with noticeable facial scars from the torture he underwent in…
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Activestills
August 12, 2012
African couple hospitalized after apparent arson attack
The apartment of an Eritrean couple in Jerusalem went up in flames last night, in what looks like another arson attack. Haaretz reports that at around 3 a.m., the man and the woman, who is seven months pregnant, awoke and tried to stamp out the fire with their feet. There are times when events are…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
July 12, 2012
World Refugee Week: A community deported, in pictures
Refugees and their supporters in Tel Aviv mark World Refugee Day on Friday. But amidst what is meant to be a celebratory event hangs a strong sense of unease, as Israel tightens its immigration policies, threatening to deport those who seek protection and to jail the ones it cannot expel. Last week, Israel began aggressive…
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June 21, 2012
South Sudanese child abuse victims face expulsion with families
Among the hundreds of South Sudanese slated for deportation is a group of children who have been removed from their parents’ custody due to severe domestic violence. The authorities have not taken steps to ensure their protection, and they risk not only immediate deportation, but a forced return to abusive families. South Sudanese victims of…
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Noa Yachot
June 13, 2012
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