After violent protests in Jerusalem on Thursday which ended with the arrests of 17 people, members of Israel’s Ethiopian Jewish community will renew the protests, this time in Tel Aviv, vowing to disrupt daily life in the city. The protests will take place on Sunday, 14 Iyar, from the Azrieli Towers to the Ayalon Expressway. The community is protesting the discrimination it suffers in Israel. The protests in the capital were sparked by a video showing the unprovoked beating of a community member, an IDF soldier, by a policeman.
Following the release of the video, before the protests, Israel Police Chief Yochanan Danino stated the officer in question will be thrown off the force for his unacceptable actions.
One of the organizers of the protest explain that “discrimination cannot become routine and therefore we are going to disrupt the daily routine”. Organizers of the event are calling on participants to obey the law and remain peaceful.
The Sunday protest began at 15:00 Israel time.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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The beating up of the IDF soldier was a disgrace and cannot be dismissed. But who says happened because he is an Ethiopian? And even if that were the cause, they don’t have to go wild and act like a bunch of shvartzas in Baltimore.
And by the way, the police department did make arrests.
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when it smells like a rose and tastes like a rose…
I heard in the name of a certain gadol that each group of yidden that returned to EY brought with them the tumah of galus to he washed off. Unfortunatly many of our brothers and sisters brought their racism with them to our homeland. Ethiopeans are very much discriminated against. It is real and something that I have seen with my own eyes.
The protests in yerushalayim werent riots and were 99℅ peaceful. This is more than can be said for our own chareidi protests. We all make mistakes but these protests are justified and being done correctly.
And I write this in hour two of my slow commute home because of the protests.
Whether it happened because of racism or not, that does not provide license for the protesters to become violent, or to disrupt the lives of others. To me, the biggest thing the protesters have against them is that a number them have stated in so many words that they’re taking their cue from Baltimore. I saw this on a video YWN posted on Friday. The police should be taking action against anything that smells of Baltimore, just as the one who beat the IDF soldier should be punished.
Enough is Enough. I also felt Bad when I saw origiallly the video of the beating of the Ethipoian by plice and understood why there was the next daya protest in Jerusalem. But that should have been that. Especially when it was anounced the officer will be dismissed and factually the Ethipian wasn’t even hospitalized. Now it is quaestionable if bring thousands of Ethiopians to ISrael was indeed a good idea. Were Rabbaonim conulted? Did Israel import what America has in its inner cities? because JEWS dont Riot – especially in Israel against other Jews and especially in Yerushalayim!