This video was taken last New Year’s Eve at a rally advocating the deportation of African asylum-seekers in south Tel Aviv. A speaker with a bullhorn incites the crowd and demands the Israeli government round up African asylum-seekers:
Start to bring in buses and and get people out of here! There are 12,000 openings in the desert internment camp….Go home! Get out of my country!
After filmaker David Sheen captures the stunned expression on the faces of some of the asylum-seekers, he then pans his camera around and we realize he has positioned himself between the racist screaming crowd and their target.
As the crowd gathers at parliamentarian MK Michael Ben-Ari’s open office door Sheen zooms in on a photo of Rabbi Meir Kahane which hangs prominently in view next to a Otzma LeYisrael (“Might for Israel”) campaign poster of Ben-Ari and Arieh Eldad.
This is another excellent video by Sheen who has been tracking the movement to expel African asylum-seekers in Israel. He is accompanied on the streets of Tel Aviv by Max Blumenthal as an aggressive thug lunges at him and threatens to break his camera.
(Hat tip Mondoweiss commenter Bumblebye)
“I’m trying to live-tweet the pogrom.” God that felt good.
The only problem with Max is that there’s only one of him.
Waiting to cut out the deadwood.
Waiting to clean up the city.
Waiting to follow the worms.
Waiting to put on a black shirt.
Waiting to weed out the weaklings.
Waiting to smash in their windows
And kick in their doors.
Waiting for the final solution
To strengthen the strain.
Waiting to follow the worms.
Waiting to turn on the showers
And fire the ovens.
Waiting for the queens and the coons
and the [Arabs] and the [Sudanese]
Waiting to follow the worms.
Would you like to see [Israel]
Rule again, my friend?
All you have to do is follow the worms.
Would you like to send our colored cousins
Home again, my friend?
All you need to do is follow the worms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ysgG3zNUOg
“Start to bring in buses and and get people out of here! There are 12,000 openings in the desert internment camp….Go home! Get out of my country!
Start to bring in the trains, load them up and get these people out of here! There are 12,000 openings in the concentration camps…..Go away! Get out of my country!
Maybe the asylum seekers thought they would be sheltered by people who had experienced oppression….well they found out didn’t they?
The Wikipedia page mistranslates the Hebrew name.
is more accurately translated as Might for Israel, a sort of prominent might, something that is dominant, massive in scale.
For example, the Hebrew Atzum, which comes from the same root as Otzma means Humungous, Immense.
“Strength” is to sticks/guns what “Might” is to nuclear weapons. It’s quite a few notches up the scale.
“Get the hell out of here, you ass-fucker.” – “Don’t picture me. I will broken your camera!”
Is he afraid to look like the Shonda he is?
Is this a younger version of that man? or his brother?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5MvQI0dshw&feature=player_embedded
He also reminds me of his wife(?):
“Sharmuta Video” – Settler harassment of Palestinians in Hebron:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXSFsJV084
Nice people….