Ethiopians clash with police; 8 hurt
Sheera Claire Frenkel, THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 6, 2006
What was meant to be a peaceful rally for Ethiopian rights turned violent Monday, when demonstrators clashed with police in front of the Health Ministry in Jerusalem, leaving 19 people injured.
More than 200 people gathered in front of the government compound to protest discrimination against Ethiopians. The boiling point, they said, was a recent decision by the Health Ministry to discard donated Ethiopian blood.
“We won’t allow our blood to be spilled like this. The Torah says that blood is the soul. How can this country treat us, fellow Jews, this way?” said Gadi Yabarken, one of the protest’s organizers. “We will not leave unless the prime minister agrees to meet with us.”
While Prime Minister Ehud Olmert refused to meet with the protesters, Immigration and Absorption Minister Ze’ev Boim met with a small group of their representatives and promised to approach Olmert to ask him to create a ministerial committee dedicated to the Ethiopian community. Boim also promised to work for the release the five activists who were arrested during the protest.
The only politician to address the protest was MK Ran Cohen (Meretz). “I feel your pain. A country that discriminates against Ethiopian Jews is a racist country,” said Cohen, who added that he would raise the issue in the Knesset plenum.
Demonstrators answered Cohen’s speech with shouts that they were “sick of the false promises” of politicians.
Yabarken said the government had not upheld any of its promises to advance Ethiopian rights or deal with problems such as raising the salaries of Ethiopian religious leaders to match other rabbis, expand Falash Mura immigration or increase affirmative-action programs.
“These problems have been building up for some time, but to find out that they will throw our blood away, for no reason other than racist discrimination, that is too much to bear,” Yabarken said.
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in case you have been so stupid and havent realized it yet…the way white people are is their NATURE..we all can do the same things that they can do..dont let these devils disrespect you
Racism in Israel is common as any other country which is a melting pot of russian,morrocans,polish
,Syrians,Greek,Yemenites etc`.Every new wave of immigrants meet the same problems the previous wave dealt with and still deals with.Problem with ethiopians is they came without western education.This,sadly,is limiting them in employment opportunities and social integration.As the educational system in Israel tries(not always successfully)to give an equal starting point for all immigrants, the ethiopians will eventually find their way to a better life.The blood issue is a different matter.Since AIDS is rampant in Africa and many ethiopian blood samples have been found HIV positive the ministry of health have decided to avoid taking their blood as a safety precaution.This is controversial in Israel and is still a matter of debate.
Why should Israel risk contracting AIDS from possible tainted blood? Why do you call all whites devils? We all share the same inherent propensities for good and evil. I do not think that Africans are innately innocent in their moralities do you? Have not all men hurt any other since time immemorial?
I understand your anxieties all too well. Our modern world is dastardly and devoid of soul.
Love all men equally as this is what you heart tells you. Peace.
lee johnson…if one uses your logic then why not call all whites devils. not all africans have hiv and not all africans blood is tainted… so why throw away all african blood. if you brand africans tainted then we should brand whites devils
D, your thinking is elementary and devoid of any logic. As we all know, Africa is unfortunately facing a pandemic crisis – AIDS. You are aware of this are you not? Should Israel examine each and every donors blood or just not take the chance and discard the Ethiopians? What would you do?
I do not brand Africans as tainted. They are a beautiful people. The bastards that sundered them from their world, their religion, their homes and families were indeed devils, I give you that. I despise this false existence we are all forced to live. We have a religion that is external to us – the Bible. This is a collection fables and histories promulgated by the Romans in the last days of their viscios, greedy empire. Do not forget that before Rome and Christianity invaded Europe my people lived as did yours. We worshiped nature. This is a true religion that can be experienced with our living flesh, not a disembodied book about strange people (Jews) and what they did ages before. How could what someone did 3000 years ago in an alien land have any real meaning to me now?
When we all lived in villages we loved each other and were family. We respected the wisdom of the elders.
Please do not think that all whites are evil or devils. Some of us like myself think quite differently than the nonsense that was crammed down our throats since childhood.
We are all a family of man.
Yes if I were black I would be angry.
I am angry that our world has been prostituted to a paradigm of corporate greed and reckless destruction. Giant ancient trees for sale!!! We will get the villagers to cut them for us and work like slaves in the new factories for nothing but debt!!!
Brothers, we need to cast aside this insidious plot against us and Mother Earth, from whom we are all children, and join as one in the fight!
Lee and D
I hear you both loud and clear.
Lee, your one love sentiments are unimpeachable. Yet, going by your logic not all Africans have AIDs.
Moreover, we are not even so sure about the basis of the HIV/AIDs theory as it was another politically motivated disease definition. See: AIDS
You also implicitly admitted that all blood should be screened for AIDs disease. Indeed this is presently the standard operating procedure for most hospitals.
Given all this, it is then an overkill, an irrational inference, to view all African blood as tainted and hence something that is of lower value than say blood from USA, Israel, and Japan the hubs of all prostitution and sexual depravity.
Since technology is being used to screen all blood donors individually, what motivates the exception in the case of Africans? Why not deploy the same technology to screen each individual African blood donor accepting those that are whole and rejecting the unwholesome.
You may not be racist, Lee. But having grown up in a racist culture, you should watch your presumptions otherwise you may end up in that racist stink pit again.
But I hear you, about the nature worship, the villages, the elders and the trees. That is Rasta livity! You give me much hope. It is people like I and I that will build the really brave and bright new world of love…just on the horizon.
And D…keep up your vigilance..my lion. Hail Rasta!
One Love
Jahdey
I have always believed that AIDS was a wretched plot created by Godless and heartless scientists the purpose of which is to rid the continent of the indigenous peoples. I guess maybe now that I think about it perhaps it is rascist of Israel to discard Ethiopian blood.
I had a friend I worked with (from the Bahamas, a black guy) who said “we should all just go home”. This is so true. If only the colonial pigs had never in their lust for all that glitters left their stinking European nations and went off to steal what was not and IS NOT theirs! Now look at us after centuries of science. We live in a dying world full of erosion, giant storms (the like of which have not been seen and will only grow more destructive), global warming, pollution, loss of potable water, and an age of industry feeding off of a paridly diminishing resource – OIL. Oil is running out and when it does the population that exploded along with the machines is going to perish.
sigh maybe we are devils
Much that was lore and love and light is lost. Whole civilizations have been burying in the dust of the ages and their manuscripts burned if their knowledge was counter to those is “power”.
Look at what happened in Iraq. Their great museum was looted while American soldiers looked on. There were so many scrolls from the anceint days that it would have taken a century to hae translated all of them. Burned.
To all of you from Africa I say “keep up your faith and join your cousins in the resistance”.
God bless all of you
Lee
You sound like a righteous man to me. That is a joyful thing indeed.
As for devils and company, I really don’t see the context for such conclusions here.
In this forum, we seek the knowledge that brings happiness. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Respect to you my brethren, for respect must be shown to the deserving.
One Love
Jahdey
Its time we burn all these monkeys out. As a Jew, I have seen first hand what these beasts have done to our population. I only with these niggers had been left in Africa so they could all die of aids together.
Jason KKK
You are no Jew, sir. You are one dumb damn-blasted KKK goy trying to do some race baiting. One dumb, wretched, weak, self-hating and joyless impotent.
Jahdey
I AM A BLCK JEW IN THE UNITED STATES, RESENTLY BECAME A JEW. JEW IS NOT A NATIONALITY OR RACE ITS A SPIRITUAL BELIEF. IF WE EMBRACE LIFE AND THE TRUTH WE ARE ALL JEWS. THE JEWS IN ISRAEL HAVE STUCK TOGETHER THROUGH IDENTITY. (COLOR) SOMETIMES AS PEOPLE WE ONLY IDENTIFY WITH SOME ONE WE LOOK LIKE BECAUSE WE FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE. JEWS OF THE OLD DAYS WERE ALL MIXED PEOPLE.IF YOU DO AN EDUCATIONAL SEARCH YOU’LL FIND WHAT A JEW IS. AS FAR AS AFRICA I KNOW THAT THE WHITE MAN WITH ALL THEIR SCIENCE HAS POISONED MY AFRICAN PEOPLE. ITS SAD THAT THEY WANT TO KILL WHAT THEY DONT UNDERSTAND. THATS WHY I’M HAPPY TO SEE SO MANY BIRACIAL CHILDREN IN THE WORLD.THEY KILL US, WE MIX WITH THEM. IN THE FUTURE 100 YEARS OR SO THEYRE WONT BE ONE PURE WHITE IN THE UNITED STATES AND I’LL BE GLAD TO GET RID OF THAT CURSED,DISEASED GENE BECAUSE THATS ALL IT IS, AN INFECTED GENE LIKE ALBINOS MABEY SOME COLOR WILL HELP THE DNA.
the europeans are the babyloniansand the blacks are the israelites
daniel chapter eleven verse 43 down bush and his gang are the kings of the north while the king bof the south is persia in other words iran the king of the noth will attack bot will get a stab in the back by china and possiblr russia check it out
hmmmm interesting topic but when it come to the jews, it is basically is this like other race. who is actually the good and who is the bad guy? we have been classifying Jews into one race where we can do whatever we want with them. the irony of we classified the Jew into one race just as we called everyone else Asian, white , Hispanic, African, etc. so why don’t we look at the individuality rather the whole?
Knesset was originally formed and funded by the rothschilds jew family who would rather marry their cousins than mix their blood even with other “whites”…So about cohen taking the Aethiopian woes to knesset,is just shadow boxing…..Where arabs have derogatory words like Kaffir to describe Blacks, israeli jews have words describing even white non jews and blacks too as filth,making them the numre uno racist in the world
open Racism esp againast we Black people is being encouraged by them weaklings what with a “grown up” health minister in israel rejecting blood from black people, what with the Australia government saying they have had enough of African(read refugees) in “their” country……yet they forget it is their plunder/ desolation of our lands that make us move to their unhospitable make believe lands
haha becuase african countries dont take in people of complete different origin like chinese or whites in mass they will never understand why people become racist.
To slowly become a minority
I can assure you africans would be equally as racist
It serves the black ‘jews’ well! They come from distant africa and steal the land and rights of the indigenous palestinian people. Now they will discover the true nature of the Ashkenazi jews who wanted them only to populate the land and drive the palestinians out.
Nawaz
You are right on this one. His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie the first had advised the falashas that they were Ethiopians and Africans first and foremost. So when the Israeli government came to HIM with the offer to airlift Falashas he turned them down and ran them off.
After Selassie I stepped out of the throne, the Ashkenazi bwoyz came back with their poisoned offer. This time the hungry bwoy Mengistu having been thoroughly indoctrinated and sodomized by his Russian trainers could not see the implication of such an awful request.
So after receiving a few penny change, he accepted that Falashas should be airlifted. The ordinary Falashas as unsophisticated as many of them were, could not imagine the hell that would await them in the Israel now stolen and controlled by Russians, Georgians with the help of the Anglo-American power.
The article above is meant to teach all, to ask what it is they are being offered before drinking it up. Cause it could be just poisoned wine.
Jahdey
what happened in the article was wrong but ur being to hard on the ashkanazic jews yes they are white but historicaly have not been treated or even viewed as whites by europeans. my fathers were victoms in countles mass killings often living in conditions similar to those blacks faced in reconstructionist south for most of the past 2000 years at the hands of the same europeans who murdered you fathers does this not bind us
Jahdey
Thank you for the info. That is one part of the story few people know.
lee Ho you are an ignorant fool! there are many african nations who have had immigrations from around the world in masses. South africa, Northern african countries, Madagascar (half black-half asian), caper verde and many more.
Go and read a book, you fool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUKFPvsT1MI
Why do you think you are special because you call yourself a “Jew”. If you look at your Bible, you would find out that after King Solomon, the kingdom was divided into two, Israel and Judar. Judar consist of King Davids tribe, some levis and Benjamin While the other 9 tribes and the most population of Levis remained in Israel and inter-married. Not long after, they carried Israel and later Judar away to babylon and when Judar retured, they called themselfs “israel” and those judars who inter-married were called samaritans and hated by the Jews (even Jesus discriminated against one by calling her a dog). Anyway, they later took this new “israel” away and when they retured;…. the so called “Jews” from Yeman looked like a Yaman, those from the West looked White, those from Africa Looked Black (but ofcourse it never occured to then that they might have inter-married with the race of their host countries)
Who cares if you call yourself “Jews” to feel special? All i care about is are you a child of father-Abraham. In the Bible Abraham is called “Father Of Many NATIONS”. We are ALL children of father-Abraham and to hell with anyone who calls himself “Jew” be he white, black, green, or blue. ……….. Even the same racist Jesus said later that God can raise for himself stons as children of Abraham.
I just pity for those Africans that are looked down on in Israel and i say to them, “Get an EDUCATION and come and apply what you learnt here at HOME in AFRICA”
I don’t look down on those “Jews” in israel (infact I support them with all my heart because they are the one that can preserve those historical sites) but You people are not exculsivlly the Israel in the Holy Bible because Isael in the Bible was a man called Jacob and his desendat that we ALL ARE BIOLOGICALLY.
Ife’ka Terry
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