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Racism in Arad: Mayor declares southern Israeli town off-limits to Africans

In Israel’s war on African refugees, high-ranking government officials play the role of generals, but local leaders fulfill the function of lieutenants.

On August 11, 2015, Israel’s High Court ruled that 1,200 non-Jewish African asylum-seekers must be released from the Holot desert detention center which the Netanyahu government had rounded them into. The reason for the decision: the asylum-seekers had already been held there for over a year, and to remain behind barbed wire for any longer would unduly diminish their dignity – even by Israel’s decreased standards for non-Jewish, non-white non-citizens.

Two weeks later, a day before the deadline imposed by the High Court, Israel began to release the 1,200 asylum-seekers, giving each of them only bus fare of 64 shekels ($16 USD) and conditional release visas forbidding them from working or living in the Israeli cities with the largest African communities: Tel Aviv and Eilat.

On August 25, 2015, as the asylum-seekers began to make their way across the country hoping to find gainful means of employment and living accommodations, Arad mayor Nissan Ben-Hamo announced on his Facebook page that he had ordered local law enforcement to post officers at the entrance to town and to prevent any Africans from entering Arad.

Ben-Hamo’s efforts were largely successful; only a handful of asylum-seekers managed to make it into Arad over the course of the day.

As the sun began to set, Mondoweiss travelled to Arad to interview local residents and ask them what they thought of their mayor’s announcement. Of all the people willing to speak their mind on camera, only one person expressed support for the asylum-seekers – and that person was a Palestinian citizen of Israel.

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Israelis seem to have it so tough. If only the world could understand the crux of their ethnocentric nature. ~ The more Israel develops in this new century, the less likely the concept of a democratic state seems. It is as if the ‘democracy idea’ became a set of abandoned training wheels.

And they are still working at destroying the Al Aqsa Mosque, albeit a very slow effort. It adds up to one big mess that even US political stooges can’t embrace.

And heaven forfend that any Syrians, desperate to escape the civil war in their country, might cross the border (wherever that is) into Israel.

“The whole area was filled with cushim; not that I’m racist”. WTF. The translation of cushim is not “negroes” but the other N-word. What’s up with the sugar coating? These little bastards, who are 5 years from IDF, are talking about Africans raping Israeli women? I know Jewish women have been raped, but the rapist is usually their rabbi, father, brother or acquaintance. If Africans were raping Jewish women like these idiots claim, they’d have all been massacred.

“We should look out for our own first”. But of course. Great. Then get yourself to work, build your own damn houses, clean your own damn streets and stop taking money from the US and other countries.

The threats from the guys at the end was the cherry on top. “I’ll break your camera”.

The Israeli people live (at the expense of everyone else). Israel – a blight to the nations.

Ever hear of an American “Sunset Town”- communities where no blacks were allowed after dark…they were quite common in the Midwest until civil rights legislation began to be enforced in the 1960’s. It sure looks like “The Only Democracy in the Middle East” is seizing upon yet another ugly American tradition to distinguish between the races.

@Balfour

Sundown towns.

Racism is part of the landscape in the southern Israeli town of Dimona (Updated) Marnie August 26, 2015 at 1:24 am – See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/profile/marnie/11#sthash.OFCtFmE5.dpuf

The United States had “sundown towns”.

Sundown town – Wikipedia.
A sundown town is a town, city, or neighborhood in the United States that is purposely all-white, excluding people of other races. The term came from signs that were posted stating that people of color had to leave the town by sundown. They are also sometimes known as sunset towns or gray towns.[1] In some communities, signs were placed at the town’s borders with statements similar to the one posted in Hawthorne, California, which read “Nigger, Don’t Let The Sun Set On YOU In Hawthorne” in the 1930s.[2] James W. Loewen, the Washington, D.C.-based author, told The Washington Post in 2006 he found reports of thousands of such places, and sometimes, the sign makers tried to get clever. “Some came in a series, like the old Burma Shave signs, saying, ” . . . If You Can Read . . . You’d Better Run . . . If You Can’t Read . . . You’d Better Run Anyway.”[3] In some cases, the exclusion was official town policy or was promulgated by the community’s real estate agents via exclusionary covenants governing who could buy or rent property. In others, the policy was enforced through intimidation. This intimidation could occur in a number of ways, including harassment by law enforcement officers.[4] Since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and especially since the Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibited racial discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing, the number of sundown towns has decreased. However, as sociologist James W. Loewen writes in his book on the subject, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism (2005), it is impossible to precisely count the number of sundown towns at any given time, because most towns have not kept records of the ordinances or signs that marked the town’s sundown status. He further notes that hundreds of cities across America have been sundown towns at some point in their history.[5] Additionally, Loewen notes that sundown status meant more than just that African-Americans were unable to live in these towns. Essentially any African-Americans (or sometimes other ethnic groups) who entered or were found in sundown towns after sunset were subject to harassment, threats, and violent acts—up to and including lynching.[5] The city of Goshen, Indiana was a sundown town for much of its history, forbidding African Americans from living in, or entering, the town, often under threat of violence. In March 2015, the city acknowledged this part of its past, apologizing and saying that it no longer condones such behavior.[6][7]

“ISRAEL” IS A SUN DOWN STATE. GO BDS!