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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…
By
Haggai Matar
September 9, 2013
Municipal authorities raid and shutter asylum seekers’ businesses in Tel Aviv
Dozens of Tel Aviv municipal officers, border policemen and private movers raided several businesses run by African asylum seekers around Tel Aviv’s central bus station, confiscating goods and welding the doors shut. Officials also poured bleach into food in a Darfur refugee’s restaurant. Is city hall preparing for the upcoming municipal elections? A group of…
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Haggai Matar
May 12, 2013
Suspect in arson of asylum seeker homes reaches plea deal with no jail time
Haim Mula, a resident of the Shapira neighborhood in south Tel Aviv who was arrested last April in connection with the nighttime arson attack of several African asylum seeker homes and one kindergarten in his neighborhood, has signed a plea bargain that exempts him from jail time. Mula, 20, was originally accused of committing the…
By
Haggai Matar
December 24, 2012
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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
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
Police distort crime data, inciting violence against refugees
By Sigal Rozen Several Sudanese and Eritrean nationals were recently arrested in two separate cases involving the rape of Israeli women and the murder of an Eritrean woman. The media extensively covered these horrible crimes, followed by a long line of politicians quoting frightening police claims that Africans account for 40 percent of Tel Aviv’s…
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+972 Magazine
May 19, 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
Israeli arrested on suspicion of arson of asylum seekers’ homes
A 20-year-old Israeli from south Tel Aviv has been arrested last night in connection to the arson attacks on four asylum seekers’ houses and one kindergarten. Police says the young man is suspected of having committed the attacks on racist grounds, in an attempt to force non-Israeli residents out of the neighborhood. The suspect will be…
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Haggai Matar
April 28, 2012
‘What if refugees were to fire bomb Israeli houses?’
A guest post by Leehee Rotschild, who tries to imagine a scenario in which Molotov cocktails are thrown at Israelis, and not asylum seekers, as was the case two nights ago in south Tel Aviv. Let’s take a moment to imagine what would happen if Eritrean refugees had thrown Molotov cocktails into Jewish houses and…
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Haggai Matar
April 28, 2012
Community shaken after night of arson attacks on African refugees
Four houses and one kindergarten in south Tel Aviv, all serving the African asylum seeker community, were hit within the same hour by Molotov cocktails. Testimonies from asylum seekers and Israeli neighbors indicate a coordinated pogrom. “Somebody is trying to get rid of these damn Sudanese,” said an Israeli resident of Shapira neighborhood in south…
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Haggai Matar
April 26, 2012
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
Vacancy: for Israeli tenants only
“For Israelis only.” To the best of my knowledge this sign, photographed on a house in the south Tel Aviv neighborhood of Shapira, sets a precedent. I have heard several anecdotes about landlords refusing to rent to foreigners; and of course lots of Arabs have had similar experiences all over Tel Aviv. The anti-foreigner sentiment…
By
Haggai Matar
September 9, 2010
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