The genocide in Darfur didn’t go away, but the Jewish community’s attention did
'Never Again' has become never mind.
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President Trump, you may have heard, is soon embarking on the first international trip of his presidency – to Saudi Arabia, Israel, The Vatican, Italy and Brussels. What you may not have heard is that while in Saudi Arabia, there is a possibility that Trump will not only meet with King Salman, who is currently allegedly…
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Israel News After Torture and Desert Trek, First Sudanese Wins Asylum in Israel
Mutasim Ali always believed that he would succeed in his fight to secure refugee status for the thousands of asylum seekers in Israel. He just never thought that he would attain the status himself. As a leader in the movement for refugee rights, Ali, 29, assumed that his activism — which included organizing large-scale protests…
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Israel News African Immigrants Cheer Israel Court Decision Shutting Jail
Asylum-seekers Detained in Israel’s Desert from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. For African immigrants living in South Tel Aviv, there is only one fate they dread almost as much returning to their troubled homelands: being sent to Holot, a spartan detention center deep in the Negev desert. Israel’s high court handed the community a huge…
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Opinion 2 Women Put a Darfuri Survivor Through College
Guy Adam In the fall of 2010, I had recently arrived in Tel Aviv and had started my New Israel Fund Fellowship at ASSAF, a humanitarian aid organization helping asylum seekers and refugees in Israel. I met Guy around then at the ASSAF offices. He spoke English, so I explained to him that I was…
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Israel News African Asylum Seeker Stays Positive in Israeli Detention Facility
(Haaretz) — Hassan Shakur has made a deliberate decision not to be negative or bitter. He will be optimistic, he says, despite the horrific “times of misery,” as he refers to them, in his homeland, Darfur. Despite a gruesome experience in Cairo and then the escape to Israel. And despite the racism he has encountered in…
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Opinion Israel’s African Problem and Us
About 60,000 African asylum seekers have entered Israel since 2005, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea. Many died along the way, of starvation or dehydration in Sinai. Many were tortured or raped by Bedouin criminal organizations. And many were immediately stopped at the border by Israel and sent back to Egypt, where they were then deported…
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Israel News Seeking Asylum, Sudanese Face Israeli Prison
Israel’s Interior Ministry is preparing prisons in the Negev desert for the mass detention of some 15,000 Sudanese nationals who are seeking asylum as refugees in the Jewish state. The planned sweep, which the ministry now hopes to launch sometime after October 30, follows hard on the heels of Israel’s deportation in June of hundreds…
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