Thursday, May 24, 2012

Racist festival in Israel: if this was in an Arab country, books would be written about it

"Hundreds of demonstrators assembled in Tel Aviv's Hatikva neighborhood calling for the ousting of African migrant workers. Some people attacked people attacked Africans that passed by. Others smashed the windows of a grocery store serving the migrant worker community and looted it.  Another group of demonstrators stopped a shuttle taxi and searched for migrant workers among the passengers, while banging on the windows.  The crowd cried "The people want the Sudanese deported" and "infiltrators get out of our home." Miri Regev, a Likud Knesset Member said that "the Sudanese were a cancer in our body." 17 protesters were arrested.""