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How Eritrean regime agents persecute asylum seekers in Israel
Israeli authorities have long turned a blind eye to the threat Eritreans face from their own government, leaving the community desperate to protect itself.
By
Guli Dolev-Hashiloni
September 5, 2023
‘Justice for Iyad, justice for George’: Hundreds protest police killing of Palestinian in Jerusalem
Israelis and Palestinians take to the streets to protest police violence, drawing parallels with the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
By
Oren Ziv
May 30, 2020
Portrait of a crisis: Asylum seekers in south Tel Aviv facing coronavirus
The spread of COVID-19 has left asylum seekers in Israel out of work, crammed into uninhabitable apartments with exorbitant rents, and desperate for government assistance.
By
Oren Ziv
April 30, 2020
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Hundreds protest in Tel Aviv against the deportation of asylum seekers
The protest is the first of many planned to resist the government’s plan to deport 40,000 asylum seekers currently living in Israel. More than 200 people gathered at the Abraham Hostel in Tel Aviv on Saturday night for the first of many protests against the planned deportation of asylum seekers. The government recently announced that it intends to…
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Haggai Matar
January 7, 2018
+972 Writer Mya Guarnieri Jaradat’s book long-listed for the Wingate Prize
+972 Magazine congratulates writer Mya Guarnieri Jaradat on her book, The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others, being long-listed for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize, alongside books by Amoz Oz, Joshua Cohen, Linda Grant, Nicole Krauss, and Nir Baram. The Unchosen is deeply reported look into the lives of asylum seekers and migrant workers in Israel. It was published…
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+972 Magazine
November 30, 2017
Netanyahu exploiting south Tel Aviv’s hardships to attack asylum seekers
Netanyahu has asylum seekers right where he wants them. He can exploit the hardships of south Tel Aviv residents to continue inciting against the Supreme Court, the media, and human rights organizations. By Yossi Dahan After years in which Netanyahu did not set foot in south Tel Aviv, the prime minister came to the area last week…
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Haokets
September 8, 2017
Keep Israel’s militarism away from asylum seeker children
Contrary to what some activists claim, Defense Minister Liberman’s decision to forbid soldiers from volunteering with children of asylum seekers is a good one. By Dror Mizrachi Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman caused controversy this week when he acquiesced to requests by activists in south Tel Aviv and ordered the IDF chief of staff to stop soldiers…
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August 18, 2016
PHOTOS: Hundreds protest deportation of asylum seekers in Tel Aviv
The Israeli government announced plans to offer asylum seekers a stark choice: self-deport to a third country or face indefinite imprisonment. Residents of south Tel Aviv, where many asylum seekers live, stage a counter-protest. By Oren Ziv/Activestills.org Some 300 Israeli activists staged a protest against the Israeli government’s stated future policy of deporting asylum seekers…
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Activestills
May 3, 2015
PHOTOS: Hundreds gather to protest dire conditions of south Tel Aviv
Hundreds demonstrated in central Tel Aviv against the dire living conditions for the residents, refugees and foreign workers who live in south Tel Aviv. Photos and text: Oren Ziv / Activestills.org Approximately 300 Israelis, asylum seekers and foreign workers protested Sunday evening at Habima Square in central Tel Aviv against the living conditions in south…
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Activestills
April 20, 2015
Our elected officials boast about deporting genocide survivors
Israel’s leaders are proud of themselves for deporting asylum seekers, while the state continues to trample over their rights and deceive them. What have we come to? By Moran Mekamel On Tuesday, it was announced that the government is planning to forcibly deport Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers to “third countries.” Those who refuse to leave…
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+972 Magazine
April 1, 2015
The importance of being earnest about human rights
In an open letter, one of Israel’s foremost refugee rights lawyers calls on the deputy attorney general to follow her conscience. By Asaf Weitzen Dear Deputy Attorney General Dina Silber: I am familiar with a bit of your academic work, including two books you authored and speeches that you give from time to time. You have…
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January 22, 2015
Israel’s ‘backyards’: First south Tel Aviv, then Holot
So long as the fight for asylum seekers’ rights — which I have taken part in — remains blind to the fact that Mizrahi slums are the only places carrying the burden of supporting and integrating asylum seekers, any celebration of the High Court to shut down Holot is premature. By Shula Keshet (Translated from Hebrew…
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Haokets
November 11, 2014
PHOTOS: Protesters compare High Court to ISIS at anti-refugee rally
Far-right protest against High Court decision to close Holot detention center greeted by flower-bearing asylum seekers. Around 100 people, including far-right activists and residents of south Tel Aviv, protested Sunday night against asylum seekers and against the High Court decision to close the Holot detention center within 90 days. Some protesters, among them former extremist Knesset member…
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Activestills
October 6, 2014
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