Comments on: Week after attacks, another African residence firebombed

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:32:06 +0000

Sarah, these Africans aren’t Jewish so your remark above basically is wrong.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:22:19 +0000

Not to be nitpicky, but calling them “Nigerian immigrants” is to me false.

These are Nigerian citizens who for the most part overstayed legal tourism visas in order to work illegally to make money. They are not refugees, they are not asylum seekers or immigrants, they are illegal foreign workers.

This is the case for the Nigerians. Worth noting.

By: SHLOMO KROL

SHLOMO KROL — Mon, 07 May 2012 09:54:05 +0000

I don’t understand why intelligent people subscribe for the demagoguery of “dumping migrants to impoverished neighbourhoods”. Of course the migrants live in the neighbourhoods where the housing is cheap. Of course these neighbourhoods have many problems. But the problem with the Israeli society is that it is racist and views the migrants themselves as a problem. If the migrants are problem, than they indeed add to other problems of south Tel Aviv. But I think, it si this view which is problematic, not the migrants.
These views must be confronted and not adopted, because if we accept them, than we accept, God forbid us from accepting this, that Arabs are problem in “communal settlements” and in Safed, that Ehiopian immigrants are problem in Mevasseret Zion, that Orthodox Jews are problem in Ramat Aviv, that those not Orthodox enough are problem in Beit Shemesh, that gays are problem in Jerusalem, that Jews are problem in Qazrin, that Beduins are problem in Beer Sheva and the rest of the divisive and ugly crap of the social, political and everyday life in Israel.

By: Greg Pollock

Greg Pollock — Mon, 07 May 2012 09:22:34 +0000

Rafael,
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That schools are doing this doesn’t mean it is lawful. It might be–Israel is pretty strange. But I would begin by assuming it is not lawful. But if neither the State nor the courts act, well, it just as if it is lawful.
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So I wonder if any suits have been filed over these exclusions, or whether the State is mandated to provide an alternative shcool when exclusion happens. I have the impression that Israel has many good laws; they are just not enforced. But I really don’t know.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:09:27 +0000

I thought the “State of Israel” was created under the guise of being a “Jewish homeland” for all Jews around the world…how do they justify now picking and choosing WHICH Jews should be allowed to live there, and where their children can and can not go to school based on the colour of their skin? This is yet another example of why Israel has failed…it is indeed an apartheid state.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:57:02 +0000

“Schools have this authority under law?”

We did see many Ashkenazi Haredi schools refusing students from Oriental communities.

By: Greg Pollock

Greg Pollock — Sun, 06 May 2012 08:38:17 +0000

“Several south Tel Aviv schools have barred non-Israeli children from enrolling.”
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Schools have this authority under law?
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It is painful to see the Jewish poor having to do this. But the phenomenon occurs throughout the world. The State should not enhance it.