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ERITREAN PUNISHED IN AN ISRAELI COURT

ERITREAN FOUND GUILTY OF ROBBERY GIVEN HARSH SENTENCE

TO DETER “FOREIGN CITIZENS”

By Noam Wiener

The Tel Aviv District Court, roughly comparable to a circuit court in the American federal system, sentenced on Wednesday an Eritrean refugee convicted of aggravated robbery to four and a half years imprisonment. Explaining the harsh sentence, he cited the need to deter “foreign citizens” from committing crimes.

Without detracting from the brutality of the individuals who attacked refugee shops and cars last week, this is a far more insidious form of racism. And if anybody was so deluded into thinking that only the less fortunate lower classes are so racist, Judge Zvi Gurfinkel has proven that the virus of racism against African refugees is firmly ingrained in the system.

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Israel MoI Determined to Deport Africans

“I will safeguard the Jewish majority and the state, and I ensure that the last of the Sudanese, and the Eritreans, and all of the infiltrators, to the last of them, will return  to their countries,” Yishai, of the Shas party, told Army Radio. “I have pity on the people of Israel.”

Israel’s Yishai determined to deport Africans

December 8, 2011

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s interior minister, Eli Yishai, promised to deport the tens of thousands of Africans who have crossed into his country illegally in recent years.

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