On Wednesday night, in the predominately black neighborhood of Hatikva in Tel Aviv, Israel, nationalist protestors took to the streets demanding the deportation of African immigrants and asylum seekers. Many of the immigrants came from Eritrea and South Sudan, smuggled into the country through Israel’s southern border with Egypt. An estimated 90% are economic migrants who come to Israel are coming to look for work. Many have also come to escape the poverty and persecution in their home countries.  

The violent protests were marked by protestors shouting, “Blacks out!” and “Send the Sudanese back to Sudan,” as windows of shops owned by the African migrants were smashed. Some Africans were beat up and pelted with rocks as they attempted to leave their homes. TJ, a young Nigerian immigrant said, “A group of about 10 or 15 boys stopped one black kid cycling on his bike. They pulled him off and were punching and kicking him in his head. The police just stood and watched until it got really out of control.” Another particularly tragic incident involved a gang assault on a mother carrying a young baby.

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Days before the protests, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the rise of immigrants from Africa is “threatening the fabric of Israeli society, its national security and its national identity.” During the evening of the protests, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party Danny Danon wrote a Facebook status stating, “Israel is at war. An enemy state of infiltrators was established in Israel, and its capital is south Tel Aviv.” The riots have led to demands to send the African immigrants to jail, followed by expulsion.

(Source: knowledgeequalsblackpower, via fyeahblackhistory)