Overviews | Reports | Articles | Rallies | Speakers | Interviews | Graphics | Archives | Media I have been carefully chronicling the racist attacks against non-Jewish African asylum-seekers in Israel for several years. In January 2012, an organization in Israel that aids African asylum-seekers, the African Refugee Development Center, asked me to author on their behalf a report to the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). After receiving the report in text and video form, the UN committee urged the Israeli government to prevent racist attacks against Africans in Israel. The Israeli government ignored the UN's call, and the following month, Israelis firebombed a kindergarten for African children in Tel Aviv, igniting a wave of violence against non-Jewish African people in Israel that is still ongoing. Below are links to the UN reports, in text and video form, social media stories about the recent violence, footage from two years of anti-African rallies, and extended one-on-one interviews about opposition to the presence of Africans in Israel. Video Overviews of Anti-African Racism January 2012 Africans in Israel 3-minute trailer for the hour-long documentary video "Racism Report: Africans in Israel" prepared for the United Nations January 2012 Racism Report: Africans in Israel Report for the African Refugee Development Center (ARDC) to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) June 2012 Defend African Refugees in Israel 5-minute compilation of footage from the street rallies in favor of, and opposed to, the presence of non-Jewish African asylum-seekers in Israel October 2012 Israelis Against "Race-Mixing" Israeli describes his opposition to interracial relationships, with slideshow of historic anti-miscegenation documents October 2012 How Many Refugees in Israel? Jewish leaders are asked the number of non-Jewish people accepted by Israel as refugees, with startling answers November 2012 Murder In Their Eyes At a Tel Aviv anti-African rally, an Israeli woman claims Africans threaten her with "murder". Is there any truth to this claim? United Nations Committee Written Reports January 2012 ARDC Alternative Report submitted to UN Alternative report submitted by the African Refugee Development Center to the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination March 2012 Concluding Observations of United Nations Committee Response of the UN Committee condemning racism specifically against African asylum-seekers and other groups in Israel Articles about Anti-African Racism May 2013 A year in review: Anti-African racism in Israel Comprehensive overview of Israel's persecution of non-Jewish African asylum-seekers between November 2012 and May 2013 April 2013 Liberal Zionism at 65: Fantasy and reality A mental exercise imagining what Israel could look like if it was really a liberal democracy - and comparing that vision to the grim reality March 2013 Beware of defending the lesser of 2 evils A response to Sudanese anti-slavery activist Simon Deng, who argues that Israel's racist treatment of non-Jewish people should be ignored December 2012 The dirty dozen: Israel's racist ringleaders A top twelve list of the Israeli officials most responsible for the persecution of non-Jewish African asylum-seekers - and why November 2012 Israel Builds Camps To Round Africans Into Comprehensive overview of Israel's persecution of non-Jewish African asylum-seekers between August and October 2012 September 2012 Israel's Race to the Top Analysis of the root causes of anti-African racism in Israeli society and the power of the anti-miscegenation lobby July 2012 After the Pogrom, Israel's War On Africans After full scale anti-African race riots in Tel Aviv, Israel moves quickly to deport as many African asylum-seekers as possible. May 2012 Timeline: AfriKristallnacht My Twitter timeline of live-tweeting from May 22, the night before the anti-African pogrom in Tel Aviv, to May 29, a week after the pogrom May 2012 Israeli Anti-Racism Neutralized by 'Social Justice' An analysis of why some Israelis want efforts directed towards inter-Jewish solidarity rather than towards combating anti-African racism April 2012 Proto-Pogrom Against Africans in Israel A summary of what happened in the 3 months between the Report to the United Nations and the firebomb attacks in April 2012 September 2011 USA, 1950? South Africa, 1980? No - Israel, 2011 Some say Israelis can't be racist because the country include Black Jews. But how are those Black Jews treated? April 2011 Recalling their show of strength 25 years after a pivotal hand-off, African Israelites recall the Israeli government's efforts to expel them from the country March 2011 Israelis who would deport refugee children Do politicians convince the population to be racist? Or are they just following the will of the people who are racist already? Videos of Pro- & Anti-African Street Rallies December 31, 2012 In with the New Year, Out with the Africans After a New Year's Eve anti-African rally, right-wing activists march through Tel Aviv humiliating any African person they come across December 19, 2012 Israelis Want Africans Out Veteran Israelis protest the setting up of winter tents in a south Tel Aviv park for homeless people, mainly African asylum-seekers December 10, 2012 Anti-African Chanukah Rally #2 Knesset Members hold a holiday candle-lighting ceremony / political rally / kick-out-the-Africans protest in south Tel Aviv October 28, 2012 Israelis vs. Africans Jewish Israelis say reducing the rate of Africans entering the country is not enough and demand the expulsion of all asylum-seekers October 18, 2012 Eritreans Protest Israeli Persecution Eritrean asylum-seekers protest against the government's plan to round them up into an internment camp imminently October 14, 2012 Sudanese Protest Israeli Persecution Sudanese asylum-seekers protest against the government's plan to round them up into an internment camp imminently July 28, 2012 Lesson of the Holocaust: Grant Asylum Descendants of Holocaust survivors protest the Israeli government's persecution of non-Jewish African asylum-seekers July 28, 2012 Holocaust Survivor & African Refugees A Holocaust survivor describes his horror upon learning of the living conditions of African asylum-seekers in Israel June 10, 2012 Africans in Israel Demand Refugee Rights March by African asylum-seekers to the United Nations Refugee Agency offices in Tel Aviv May 30, 2012 Still African - Jewish or Not Tel Aviv rally demanding the expulsion of all non-Jewish African people verbally and physically attacks an Ethiopian Jewish Israeli man May 23, 2012 Unsafe for Africans in Israel The effects of an anti-African race riot in Tel Aviv are still felt a week after the fact May 22, 2012 Rape Culture in Israel Anti-African demonstrators call for people who do not agree with them to be raped, as a Member of Knesset looks on and smiles May 22, 2012 Not Racist? May You Be Raped! A lone Israeli woman who does not agree with a crowd who wants to deport all non-Jewish African asylum-seekers is shouted down with ferocity March 17, 2012 Sudanese Protest Israel Deportation The South Sudanese community holds a protest in Tel Aviv, pleading that they be allowed to stay in Israel until their situation improves January 10, 2011 Protest: Israel criminalizes refugees Israelis block vehicular traffic outside Tel Aviv City Hall after the government passes a law criminalizing refugees. December 11, 2011 Anti-African Rally in Tel Aviv White Jewish Israelis march through a mainly African area of Tel Aviv, demanding their immediate deportation. September 1, 2011 Racial segregation in Israeli schools Ethiopian-Israelis & Russian-Israelis protest racial segregation in state-sponsored schools in Petach Tikvah. April 6, 2011 South Tel Aviv is on fire White Jewish Israelis march through a mainly African area of Tel Aviv, demanding their immediate deportation. March 4, 2011 Feelings for Foreigners Demonstration against the deportation of children of foreign workers elicits a counter-protest calling for expulsion of non-Jews. Israeli Leaders Filmed Speaking About Race March 19, 2013 Campaign For A Jew-Only Sderot Rabbi explains how he successfully pressured Israelis to stop renting apartments to non-Jewish African refugees April 15, 2012 Yishai To Non-Jews: Wipe Our Butts & Don't Have Kids Israel's Interior Minister Eli Yishai says foreigners may perform the most demeaning labor, but may not procreate in the country April 15, 2012 Fear & Loathing Of All Non-Jews Fence For Life lobby group chair Ilan Tsion says non-Jewish people may not be allowed into Israel because they all want to kill all Jews April 15, 2012 Rabbi Aspires To Jewish Dominion Kiryat Arba settlement Chief Rabbi Dov Lior says Jewish law mandates that non-Jewish people may not have any positions of authority in Israel June 23, 2011 Eli Yishai: There's a Jewish Gene Israel's Interior Minister Eli Yishai says scientists hold that being Jewish is actually a genetic condition that is passed down from mother to child June 23, 2011 Ne'eman: Africans Can't Become Jews Israel's Justice Minister says Africans can't be allowed to convert to Judaism because they would then have the right to become citizens 1-on-1 Video Interviews about Anti-African Racism 1 - From Darfur to Israel Asylum-seeker Jacob Berry explains how he escaped persecution in Sudan and Egypt and made it to Israel 2 - From Darfur to Israel Asylum-seeker Jacob Berry discusses the racial discrimination he is exposed to in Israel 3 - From Darfur to Israel Asylum-seeker Jacob Berry describes how the African community can respond to hostile actions by Israel 1 - How Israel Vilifies Africans Community activist Dr. Rami Gudovitch explains how Israelis' attitudes towards Africans went from bad to worse 2 - How Israel Abuses Africans Community activist Dr. Rami Gudovitch lists a litany of indignities he has witnessed Israelis visit upon Africans 3 - How Israel Expels Africans Community activist Dr. Rami Gudovitch describes how Israel sent Africans to a place where their chances of survival are low Ben-Ari: Israel Caused "Slaughter" in Africa for Money National Union MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari accuses the Israeli government of selling weapons that destroy the lives of innocent African people Zahalka: Give Africans Full Rights National Democratic Alliance (BALAD) MK Jamal Zahalka explains his position on African asylum-seekers who have entered Israel Veronique, political refugee in Israel Veronique speaks about the hardships of being a political refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo in Israel History of South Tel Aviv Architect and author Sharon Rotbard discusses the history of how south Tel Aviv was settled and developed Demography of Israel Professor Jonathan Anson of Ben Gurion University in Be'er Sheva speaks about Israel's "demographic policies" and those of other countries Jews & "The Other" American-Israeli Rabbi Elli Fischer speaks about how Judaism and the State of Israel relate to non-Jewish people Israel's Ethiopian Jewish Immigration Social anthropologist Esther Herzog speaks about the topic of her doctorate thesis, the absorption of Ethiopian immigrants to Israel Israel vs. Ethiopians Lawyer and community activist Emmanuel Melese Hadana chronicles the history of the Ethiopian Jews and the racism they face in Israel Seeking asylum in Israel Lawyer and community activist Emmanuel Melese Hadana talks about the relationship between Ethiopian Jews and non-Jewish African people Info-Graphics on Anti-African Racism June 2013 You've Come A Long Way, Eli A Knesset protocol from the year 2000 reveals the evolution in the racist rhetoric of long-time Shas party leader Eli Yishai June 2013 They Did the Same Thing To Jewish Refugees A new law passed by the Israeli parliament stripping Africans of what little money they have recalls an older law targeting Jewish refugees March 2013 Existential Threat Look at the children that the Israeli government calls an existential threat to the State of Israel - only because they weren't born Jewish March 2013 Shame on Sacks The United Kingdom's Chief Rabbi "Lord" Jonathan Sacks shamefully whitewashes Israel's persecution of non-Jewish African refugees March 2013 Not the First Time Newspaper clippings from the 1970s reveal Israel has been inciting racism and trying to deport Africans for over 40 years February 2013 A Ticket & Traveling Expenses As scandalous as the comparison is, remarks about African refugees by Israeli ministers are nearly identical to those made by a notorious racist December 2012 Israel & Jewish Leaders Working Together So-called leaders of the American Jewish community are conspicuously silent while the Israeli government wages war on Africans December 2012 Israel's Axis of Racism 12-part series naming and shaming the Israeli officials most responsible for the persecution of non-Jewish African asylum-seekers November 2012 Eli Yishai: Eliminate Him Graphic created by the Israeli army to celebrate "eliminating" an opponent, altered to target Israel's own African-hating Interior Minister November 2012 USA Jewish "Leaders" Love Israel Statement by American Jewish "leaders" supporting Prime Minister Netanyahu's policy to take African asylum-seekers off Israeli streets November 2012 African Asylum-Seekers, In Their Own Words Statement by African asylum-seekers imprisoned indefinitely in an Israeli prison for "infiltration", illustrations by Mysh October 2012 American Jewish "Leaders" Silent on Ethnic Cleansing Photoshopped image of American Jewish "leaders" juxtaposed with the results of their silence on Israel's persecution of Africans October 2012 Pigment Enemy: Fear of a Black Refugee The faces of Israeli children of African asylum-seekers that Israel has deported to their deaths and the minister that deported them October 2012 Albert Einstein: How I Became a Zionist His observations on Jewish refugees in Germany in 1921 could easily have been written about African refugees in Israel in 2012 October 2012 Israel Rubber-Stamps African Rape Camps Political cartoon illustrating Israel's decision to take no action to end mass rape of African women or aid them when they escape their captors September 2012 Jewish Rage Cover graphic for Newsweek magazine on 'Muslim Rage', altered to focus attention on issue ignored by mainstream media, Israeli racism towards Africans Files from the Israeli Government Archives October 1971 Dear Israel: Kick Out the Negroes U.S. citizens write to Israeli leaders praising them for deporting black people; why were these letters kept for decades? Coverage by Other Media Outlets February 27, 2013 Israel's migrant dilemma Al Jazeera's program 'The Stream' interviews me and others soon after it is revealed Israel secretly deports Africans back to countries they fled January 23, 2013 Racist Israelis Threaten African Refugees ITN's Truthloader features my footage and my analysis of the persecution of non-Jewish African asylum-seekers in Israel November 26, 2012 Last Stop, Tel Aviv VICE Magazine's comprehensive 22-minute documentary on the plight of African asylum-seekers in Israel, shot in the summer of 2012 July 26, 2012 Israeli pest control advert uses 'Nazi' rhetoric and comparison to African refugees Social media news agency Blottr picks up my reporting on how the dehumanization of African refugees is normalized in Israel May 25, 2012 In search of a source: Israel anti-immigrant protests on Twitter Social media news agency Storyful tracks me down in order to confirm my on-the-ground reporting of the Tel Aviv anti-African race riots May 25, 2012 Violent riots in Tel Aviv fan Israel's bitter immigration dispute France 24 interviews me about the Tel Aviv anti-African race riots and about the campaign of incitement that led up to it May 8, 2012 In Israel, African migrants under attack Al Jazeera's program 'The Stream' interviews me and others soon after the firebomb attacks on an African kindergarten in Tel Aviv