Israel’s Scramble for Africa
Israel’s recent rapprochement to African states is part of a coordinated effort by the government to get close to African countries.
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Yael Even Or
Yael Even Or is a journalist and producer based in New York City.
Black in Israel
The film ‘Red Leaves’ is a timely depiction of the Ethiopian-Israeli struggle.
Like a bad joke
Israel’s arms exports to African countries has more than doubled in the last four years: African countries spent $223m on Israeli arms in 2013 compared to $107m in 2012.
Israel and the asylum seekers
If Israel doesn’t send asylum seekers back to the countries they fled from, it deports them to “third countries.”
The Jews of Africa
How some American Zionists make connections between Israel and Rwanda.
Israel’s Uganda Plan
Fantasizing about transferring refugees to third countries, has long been a project of the Israeli state and its policy makers.
The Bicycle Thief
A new Israeli law orders asylum-seekers to be detained for an unlimited period without judicial oversight or criminal proceedings, even for misdemeanors like bicycle or cell-phone theft.
Return from the Promised Land
There are some 36,000 Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel who wants to force them to go home. To a dictatorship.
Benefit Packages
Israel to African nations: take our asylum seekers and we will give you arms.