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Border agents tell Jewish American ‘the IDF doesn’t want you in Israel’
Julie Weinberg-Connors, who is in the process of making ‘aliya,’ or immigrating to Israel as a Jew under the Law of Return, was told that they were being deported because of the army’s objections over their visits to the West Bank. They were eventually let in. Jewish-American Julie Weinberg-Connors was denied entry to Israel Wednesday…
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Henriette Chacar
September 12, 2018
Human Rights Watch sues Israel in first challenge to anti-boycott travel ban
This is the first application of the 2017 amendment to Israel’s entry law in which a foreign national already living and working in Israel has had their work permit revoked for alleged support for BDS. Human Rights Watch and its Israel and Palestine director, U.S. citizen Omar Shakir, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Israeli government following the Interior Ministry’s decision…
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Mairav Zonszein
May 16, 2018
In lead-up to mass deportation, Israel closes Holot detention facility
For the past four years, asylum seekers and their supporters have demanded that the Holot detention center be shut down. Now it’s finally happening, but not at all how they envisioned. The Israeli government shut down the Holot detention facility, the open-air, desert detention facility built for African asylum seekers, on Wednesday after four years…
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Joshua Leifer
March 15, 2018
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What do south Tel Aviv’s residents really think about asylum seekers?
The media tends to stereotype the Mizrahi residents of south Tel Aviv as angry xenophobes whose problems will be solved with the deportation of African asylum seekers from their neighborhoods. But the truth is far more complicated.
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February 8, 2018
Asylum seekers to Israel’s president: ‘Look us in the eyes’
Israel plans to begin deporting tens of thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers in the coming months. Hundreds gather outside the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, hoping to tell him their stories. By Yael Marom Several hundred asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan demonstrated in front of Israeli President Rivlin’s official residence in Jerusalem Monday…
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January 23, 2018
The new ‘choice’ for asylum seekers: Deportation or prison
Israel finally plans to close its desert detention facility for African asylum seekers. Refugee advocates worry it could be the start of something even worse. During a midnight vote on Monday, the Knesset passed a bill that will enable the government to detain asylum seekers indefinitely or deport them to an unspecified country in Africa.…
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Joshua Leifer
December 13, 2017
What does the future hold for non-Jews in the Jewish state?
A new book about Israel’s crusade against asylum seekers and undocumented workers strikes at an essential truth about the precarious status of non-Jews in a self-defined Jewish state. “The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others,” Mya Guarnieri Jaradat, Pluto Press, 2017. In a small apartment in south Tel Aviv, a Filipina woman hides her…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
May 4, 2017
Asylum seeker who left Israel: ‘I believed them when they said I could stay in Uganda’
The following is a redacted version of an affidavit that was attached to a petition filed by Israeli human rights NGOs and the Tel Aviv University Refugee Rights’ Clinic against the recently announced policy of indefinitely incarcerating Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers who refuse to leave Israel for Rwanda or Uganda. Under a new policy announced on…
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+972 Magazine
June 10, 2015
Israel to indefinitely imprison asylum seekers who refuse deportation
In a move unprecedented in Western countries, Israel’s outgoing interior minister announces plan to compel asylum seekers to leave the country. Israel’s High Court has repeatedly struck down laws that authorized the indefinite detention of asylum seekers. Asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea will face deportation to third countries or face unlimited imprisonment in Israel…
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Mairav Zonszein
March 31, 2015
Bill aims to strip citizenship, curb speech — a bellwether of Israel’s Right
A senior Likud MK is proposing to suspend much of Israeli democracy. His bill has zero chance of passing muster, but it does show where the Israeli Right thinks the future of the conflict lies. MK Yariv Levin (Likud), chairman of the House Parliamentary Committee, is pushing a new directive — temporary legislation — to “combat…
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Dimi Reider
November 26, 2014
Sudanese asylum seeker returns to Israel following ‘deportation’
Sadiq al-Sadiq says he never agreed to return to his home country, where he fears persecution. Israeli authorities, however, say he signed a document agreeing to just that. Based on Avi Belcherman’s Hebrew article on +972’s sister site, “Local Call” Adapted by Michael Omer-Man A Darfurian asylum seeker who left the Israel last week under…
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May 9, 2014
Israel aims to deport French photographer with ‘Arab-sounding’ name
Following Washington’s admission that Israel is being kept out of its visa-waiver program due to discrimination against Arab-Americans, a French citizen is detained for three days under similar circumstances. French Embassy: ‘We’re regularly in touch with the Israeli authorities about these issues.’ A French citizen has been held by Israeli authorities at Ben-Gurion Airport for three…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
April 30, 2014
British activist detained entering Israel, facing 10-year ban
Gary Spedding was detained after landing in Tel Aviv ahead of meetings with parliamentarians and activists. He says his phone was hacked and contacts extracted. A high-profile member of Northern Ireland’s Alliance Party and a long-standing activist for human rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories, Gary Spedding, was detained on arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport on…
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Dimi Reider
January 10, 2014
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