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Photos of the week: Devastation for the Negev Bedouin
This week: The Bedouin village of Al-Arakib is destroyed for the 65th time, Palestinians and Israelis commemorate 47 years of occupation, administrative detainees on hunger strike, Israeli soldiers break their silence in public, demonstrations against asylum seekers in south Tel Aviv and more.
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Activestills
June 13, 2014
Film review: Arab citizen of Israel, member of the enemy
What is a Muslim woman’s place in a country where Jewish suffering is the dominant cultural theme? A new Israeli film tells the story of Hadeel, a 27-year-old Arab woman who teaches at a Jewish school in central Israel, and explores the difficulty of never fully belonging. By Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber Dove’s Cry, Ganit Ilouz’s new documentary (playing…
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+972 Magazine
November 16, 2013
Court slams MKs for incitement leading to attacks on African migrants
Tel Aviv District Court convicts man in failed fire bombing of apartment housing African migrants in south Tel Aviv. Judge lays some blame on politicians for inciting against African migrants. The Tel Aviv District Court sentenced Elad Gadban to 27 months in prison for throwing Molotov cocktails at the home of African migrants home on…
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Haggai Matar
September 9, 2013
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Avigdor Lieberman’s massacre of Israeli anthem gets new YouTube renditions
This is your Tikva: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38tXQDBdlUg This is Avigdor Lieberman: This is your Tikva on Avigdor Lieberman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Givs-xoRbMM And these are some funny renditions of that evening from 2011, conveniently being posted ahead of the elections. Let’s begin with the never-ending, pre-symphony tuning version: And then move on to the inspiring jazz rendition: http://youtu.be/-ywhZyyhDM8 And a…
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Ami Kaufman
January 2, 2013
African refugees must be processed by Israel, not criminalized
When it comes to the issue of refugees, or ‘infiltrators,’ emotions often get the best of those who are defending one term or another. But facts are facts, apples are apples, oranges are oranges. I was reminded of the above when reviewing Oren Ziv’s images of the mother and daughter being arrested at a kindergarten…
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Roee Ruttenberg
October 29, 2012
Fresh attack on Eritrean pub vandalized in anti-immigrant riot
A firecracker was hurled into an Eritrean bar in south Tel Aviv late Saturday night, the latest incident in mounting violence against the African asylum seeker community in Israel. On Eritrean customer was injured in Saturday night’s incident. The bar, located in the Hatikva neighborhood of Tel Aviv, has been the target of several attacks…
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+972 Magazine
June 16, 2012
How mainstream Israeli politicians sparked the Tel Aviv race riot
Israeli governments have neglected the poor neighborhoods of Tel Aviv for decades. Today, Knesset members use the asylum seekers to channel the anger of local residents and score easy political points. For a moment, at around 11 p.m., it seemed that things were really getting out of control: Each report from the Hatikva neighborhood in…
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Noam Sheizaf
May 24, 2012
How I survived a Tel Aviv mob attack
Last night I had to flee a raging mob not too far from my home in south Tel Aviv. After long speeches of incitement by right-wing parliamentarians, the masses stormed after me and a fellow journalist, and then turned on African asylum seekers, their businesses and their homes. This is how it happened. It started…
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Haggai Matar
May 24, 2012
Africans attacked in Tel Aviv protest; MKs: ‘infiltrators’ are cancer
Coalition MKs incited the crowd against the refugees and asylum seekers during a protest in south Tel Aviv, which was followed by attacks on African immigrants and confrontations with police. A Likud MK called for the prosecution of Israelis giving shelter to Africans. More than 1,000 Israelis protested this evening (Wednesday) against the African refugees…
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Noam Sheizaf
May 23, 2012
Week after attacks, another African residence firebombed
Just a week after an Israeli threw Molotov cocktails at four apartments that are home to African refugees and an African kindergarten in the Shapira neighborhood of South Tel Aviv, another residence has been attacked with firebombs. Two Molotov cocktails were hurled at the home of Nigerian immigrants in the HaTikva neighborhood in South Tel…
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Mya Guarnieri Jaradat
May 5, 2012
The Hatikvah affair: This is what a Jewish state looks like
The storm about Supreme Court Justice Salim Joubran’s refusal to sing the national anthem shows us just what a ‘Jewish State’ means. A political storm broke out last week, when it turned out Supreme Justice Salim Joubran declines to sing the Israeli national anthem, “Hatikvah” (The Hope). Many Jewish Brotherhood MKs suffered from an unusually…
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Yossi Gurvitz
March 8, 2012
WATCH: The housing protest – a new national identity?
A sound and slideshow by Eyal Warshavsky, with national anthem Hatikva as the crescendo, illustrates the powerful sense of a shared national cause emerging from the demonstration last Saturday night. What began as an outcry over high housing prices is taking on ever-larger dimensions, and Israelis of all stripes have rallied to the cause of…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
July 26, 2011
Remembering a Tel Aviv childhood: when racism was wrong
By Oded Feller After the anti-immigrant demonstration in South Tel Aviv ended, I decided to hang around. I went to the market, walked down Etzel Street, watched the people on the Hagana Road, turned to Yigal Alon, and kept walking as far as Hilhel Avenue. Evening came and the avenue was calm and silent, its…
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+972 Magazine
January 3, 2011
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