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Related: About this forumDoes anyone care about Israel's institutionalized racism?
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The latest incident left everyone shocked because the victim of the police brutality was a soldier. The demeaning of the uniform was more painful than the demeaning of the young man. So how come racism directed against Ethiopian immigrants no longer moves anyone? Why do we no longer get excited when police officers beat Ethiopian youths and the case against them is closed? How come no one speaks up? How can it be that no one cares about racism?
Now is the time to issue a warning: Failure on the part of the police leadership to put a stop to the unrestrained brutality against immigrants of Ethiopian descent will lead to a black intifada, with harsh acts of violence and you, too, will pay the price. Many members of the Ethiopian community feel they have been paying the price for three decades now and the despair is mounting.
The prime minister condemned the attack on the Israel Defense Forces officer in Mea She'arim and rightly so. But he chose not to condemn an attack on a soldier by a policeman. Perhaps because the victim isn't an officer. Perhaps because he's black. Or perhaps Benjamin Netanyahu, like many Israeli citizens, tends to turn a blind eye to the rising violence against Ethiopians.
The latest incident left everyone shocked because the victim of the police brutality was a soldier. The demeaning of the uniform was more painful than the demeaning of the young man. So how come racism directed against Ethiopian immigrants no longer moves anyone? Why do we no longer get excited when police officers beat Ethiopian youths and the case against them is closed? How come no one speaks up? How can it be that no one cares about racism?
Now is the time to issue a warning: Failure on the part of the police leadership to put a stop to the unrestrained brutality against immigrants of Ethiopian descent will lead to a black intifada, with harsh acts of violence and you, too, will pay the price. Many members of the Ethiopian community feel they have been paying the price for three decades now and the despair is mounting.
The prime minister condemned the attack on the Israel Defense Forces officer in Mea She'arim and rightly so. But he chose not to condemn an attack on a soldier by a policeman. Perhaps because the victim isn't an officer. Perhaps because he's black. Or perhaps Benjamin Netanyahu, like many Israeli citizens, tends to turn a blind eye to the rising violence against Ethiopians.
It seems that Israel has some soul searching to do on a lot of fronts: Palestinian, Ethiopian, Colonialism, Apartheid.
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Does anyone care about Israel's institutionalized racism? (Original Post)
R. Daneel Olivaw
Apr 2015
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I believe all of humanity should do more soul searching themselves. All of us..
AuntPatsy
Apr 2015
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AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)1. I believe all of humanity should do more soul searching themselves. All of us..
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)2. Ethiopian Jews were not
welcome by Israel in the first place. Israel has the Law of Return which says any Jew can immigrate to Israel. Ethiopians who took them up were first considered to be non-jews. This changed over time. "In 2013, the Israeli government has admitted it forcibly injected birth control to Ethiopian Jews. Suspicions were first raised by an investigative journalist who interviewed Ethiopian women in order to discover why birth rates in the community had fallen dramatically." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Israel
it is not surprising that they value the uniform more than the Ethiopian wearing it.