In a wave of door-to-door police searches over the weekend, the Israeli government cemented anti-migrant sentiment into a mass deportation program by rounding up 80 refugees. The arrests come days after a Jerusalem court legalized transferring all of Israel's 1,500 South-Sudanese migrants back to their home country.
The roundup is part of a larger policy to deport all of Israel's asylum seekers, drafted by Interior Minister Eli Yishai who said earlier this month that Israel is for "the white man." Speaking to Maariv on June 3, 2012 the minister said: "Muslims that arrive here do not even believe this country belongs to us, to the white man," continuing that he is prepared to use "all the tools to expel the foreigners, until not one infiltrator remains." The program was also endorsed by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
"They are going from house to house and rounding up people. They tell us: 'Get your things and go," said community organizer Michael Bazia to YNet News. Continuing, "the [people] are willing to go home, but not in this manner. We are tired of this. We've only had independence for 10 months. You can't build a state in 10 months." Full story...
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The roundup is part of a larger policy to deport all of Israel's asylum seekers, drafted by Interior Minister Eli Yishai who said earlier this month that Israel is for "the white man." Speaking to Maariv on June 3, 2012 the minister said: "Muslims that arrive here do not even believe this country belongs to us, to the white man," continuing that he is prepared to use "all the tools to expel the foreigners, until not one infiltrator remains." The program was also endorsed by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
"They are going from house to house and rounding up people. They tell us: 'Get your things and go," said community organizer Michael Bazia to YNet News. Continuing, "the [people] are willing to go home, but not in this manner. We are tired of this. We've only had independence for 10 months. You can't build a state in 10 months." Full story...
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