Violent Anti-African Race Riot Rocks Israel, Black Men and
Women Beaten

Israel: Race Riot as Tel Aviv's Poor Hunt Down 'Cancerous'
African Migrants

	Israeli Army Radio likened the violence to a pogrom
	attack on Jews in 19th century Europe	

By Anissa Haddadi:

International Business Times
May 24, 2012 11:21 AM GMT

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/344858/20120524/protesters-attack-african-migrants-tel-aviv.htm

Violence surged in the streets of Tel Aviv as a 1000-strong
protest against African immigrants seeking asylum in Israel
turned violent.

Residents of a low-income Tel Aviv neighbourhood descended to
the streets, waving Israeli flags and chanting "Deport the
Sudanese" and "Infiltrators get out of our homes" to protest
against the increase of African migrants moving into the area
and the country.

The protest rapidly turned violent and police arrested 17
people with charges ranging from assault to vandalism. Some of
them were still beating up migrants when they were arrested.

Protesters in the Hatikva neighbourhood set trash cans alight,
broke some stores window and attacked African migrants who
were passing-by. They also attacked an African migrant driving
through the area and broke his car's windows.

Reports suggest the protesters targeted local shops known to
have African migrants as customers.

Another group of demonstrators stopped a shuttle taxi searched
for migrant workers among the passengers, while banging on the
windows, the newspaper Haaretz reported.

The protesters were backed by Likud Knesset member Miri Regev
who participated in the march and said "the Sudanese were a
cancer in our body", Haaretz 's report added.

Protesters complained about Prime Minister's Benjamin
Netanyahu's handling of the asylum seekers "problem" with some
even carrying banners in support of Interior Minister Eli
Yishai.

Yishai had called for the detention and expulsion of all
asylum seekers earlier this week.

Interviewing Interior Minister Eli Yishai, Israeli Army Radio
likened the violence to pogrom attacks on Jews in 19th century
Europe.

 Yishai retorted by saying Sudanese and Eritreans migrants
 were responsible for a rise in crime.

"I cannot judge a man whose daughter gets raped. I cannot
judge a young woman who cannot walk home," said Yishai,

"I cannot under any circumstances judge people who get abused
and harmed, and who are then confronted by the state, which
says, 'Why do you behave this way to the foreigners?'"

The protests came as last week, an Israeli man was charged
with arson after he threw seven Molotov cocktails at the homes
of African migrants.

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Video: Race-Hate Israelis Protest Against African Asylum
Seekers
http://youtu.be/jGJVX6jYjI0

Graphic footage has appeared on social media of violent scenes
from anti-African protests which have flared in Israel.
Israeli and Middle Eastern news website, Haaretz, reported
that around a thousand people turned out in a neighbourhood of
Tel Aviv yesterday to show their anger over the numbers of
asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea in their area.

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