This flyer was reproduced on Facebook and in a story in the Hebrew press in Israel: It is an advertisement for a Tel Aviv housecleaning service that offers “solutions”. They do not employ Palestinians for “security” reasons and the prices listed, 49 NIS per hour ($12 an hour), 52 NIS per hour ($13) and 69 NIS ($17) based on the employed person race! And all the workers are referred to as women.
49 NIS – for a foreigner of African descent
52 NIS – for a foreigner of eastern European descent
69 NIS – for a resident (Israeli ID holder) of eastern European descent
+972 has picked up the story too. “The advert, which was distributed in one of Tel Aviv’s most affluent areas, was first posted on Facebook by political blogger Tal Schneider, who was given the flyer by an acquaintance,” reports Natasha Roth. The ad explicitly asks, “Not prepared to have an Arab cleaner for security reasons?” Well, this is the solution.
I have to keep setting the bar lower and lower, which gives me no happiness at all. I’m very disgusted, but unfortunately not surprised one bit.
“49 NIS – for a foreigner of African descent 52 NIS – for a foreigner of eastern European descent 69 NIS – for a resident (Israeli ID holder) of eastern European descent.”
Exactly where would a Jewish Ethiopian women fit into that hierarchy? Does her Jewishness trump her Blackness or vice versa?
It’s all about exploiting the most vulnerable people in the country who will not have any recourse if they are abused, cheated or raped.
Expect plenty of whatabouty from the Hasbarists should they weigh in (“You should see what they do to black folk in the Gulf States!”)
This is beyond sad.
What a sick society.
Nothing says “moral beacon” and “light unto the nations” like paying black people less money for doing the same work as white people.
I know, I know: Those black people have a better life in the “Jewish State” than they would elsewhere and, hey, at least the “Jewish State” isn’t as bad as Saudi Arabia, Mali and African “hell-holes”.
disgraceful but not surprising.
when we are on the subject of ethnic wage discrimination
in the US
http://www.demos.org/publication/retail-race-divide-how-retail-industry-perpetuating-racial-inequality-21st-century