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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
Not a new dawn: Why the Israel-Sudan deal was a long time coming
With U.S. backing, Israel has long bribed Khartoum into cooperating on regional policy. Normalization is the latest stage in that history.
By
Yotam Gidron
October 30, 2020
Normalization cannot silence Arab resistance forever
Israel will one day have to face Arab opposition to its alliances with dictators who care little for the people under their rule.
By
Samah Salaime
October 13, 2020
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PHOTOS: Sudanese refugees protest gender violence
Photos by Oren Ziv / Activestills.org Approximately 200 Sudanese asylum seekers marked International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Tuesday by demonstrating against the European Union’s lack of action regarding Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. The protest comes in the wake of the mass rape of hundreds of women and girls in Darfur…
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November 25, 2014
Voices from Israel’s ‘open prison’: Feeling caged in Holot
‘My curiosity drives me to walk around my prison, where I stand like an inmate near those massive buildings, guarded by imposing patrol towers.’ Musings by a Sudanese refugee in Holot prison. By Hassan Shakur I live in a rugged and semi-abandoned grassland. It is a very remote and isolated area that doesn’t seem to…
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June 25, 2014
WATCH: Confronting an Israeli minister for flouting int’l law
Sadiq al-Sadiq was returned to Israel earlier this month after finding himself being sent — against his will — back to Sudan, from where he fled persecution and genocide. Sadiq is just one of hundreds or thousands of Sudanese who have been pressured to leave Israel. Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar, who is responsible for the…
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May 19, 2014
Sudanese asylum seeker returns to Israel following ‘deportation’
Sadiq al-Sadiq says he never agreed to return to his home country, where he fears persecution. Israeli authorities, however, say he signed a document agreeing to just that. Based on Avi Belcherman’s Hebrew article on +972’s sister site, “Local Call” Adapted by Michael Omer-Man A Darfurian asylum seeker who left the Israel last week under…
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May 9, 2014
No excuse for Israel’s denial of asylum seekers’ plight
Refugees’ fear of arrest, torture, and death should be sufficient justification for their inability to return their countries of origin. So why is the Israeli government refusing to grant African refugees asylum status? A personal story. By Guy Josif and Anna Rose Siegel For the past three weeks, tens of thousands of African refugees in…
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January 22, 2014
Day 2 of African asylum seeker protest: What do they want?
African asylum seekers are holding their second of a three-day national protest. On Monday, thousands of asylum seekers, most of whom are employed by hotels and restaurants, went on strike and held large rallies in front of Western and African embassies. The protesters are calling on the international community to make sure Israel respects its commitments under…
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Noam Sheizaf
January 6, 2014
Goading Putin: The insanity of Israel’s military policy
Israel is now bombing the strategic interests not only of its preferred targets – Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Iran or other vastly inferior military powers – but of Russia. When I think of Israel’s continual acts of military “preemption,” I think of a cocky kid who believes he can run across the freeway, so he…
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Larry Derfner
August 2, 2013
Why boycotts against Israel are fair game
Israel is unique in one very important way: for other malefactors like Syria and Sudan, there is no need to convince the international public of their wrongs. If it wasn’t a persuasive argument, Israel’s defenders wouldn’t keep using it, like they are now against Alice Walker: Why are these left-wingers singling Israel out for boycott,…
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Larry Derfner
June 21, 2013
‘Mr. Palestine, you’ll just have to wait your turn’
Every once in a while I get a comment on one of my posts along the lines of: ‘Why don’t you do anything about Syria, huh? If you’re such a human rights activist, why don’t you care about places where people are suffering much more right in your neighborhood? Huh??’ or ‘You know, the Arabs…
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Ami Kaufman
May 9, 2013
PHOTO ESSAY: A sprawling desert prison, for thousands of refugees
On Thursday, I traveled to the south with a group of journalists and bloggers to view the construction of new detention facilities around Ketsiot, near the Egyptian border. When completed, the four prisons in the area are meant to be able to hold more than 16,000 inmates, making them, together, the largest detention facility for…
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Noam Sheizaf
November 3, 2012
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