Ta-Nehisi Coates

Jewish immigrants from Yemen at a camp near Rosh Ha’ayin. (Photo: GPO)

The color of racism: What many get wrong about race relations in Israel

Protests against an Arab family moving into an all-Jewish neighborhood in northern Israel have sparked worldwide condemnation and accusations of ‘white supremacy.’ But understanding the ways Jewish supremacy and white supremacy work in Israel is the first step toward dismantling them. By Lihi Yona Over the past few weeks, protests have rocked the northern Israeli city of…

By +972 Magazine June 24, 2018

Ta-Nehisi Coates at the University of Virginia, January 22, 2015. (Eduardo Montes-Bradley/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Between Ramle and Me: Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates in Hebrew

Three activists, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, an Ethiopian Israeli, and a veteran Mizrahi organizer discuss the applicability of Ta-Nehesi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’ to their struggles in Israel. The killing of black men by police in the United States has, over much of the past half-decade, thrust the issue of American racism back into the…

By Edo Konrad January 15, 2018

Mounted policeman hits a protester during an Israeli Ethiopian protest against police brutality and racism, Tel Aviv, May 3rd, 2015. Activestills.org

There is nothing ‘natural’ about police racism

Israel’s police chief angered Israelis when he claimed it is ‘natural’ to suspect Ethiopians. But his remarks are simply a reflection of where Israeli society is at today. By Galia Boneh Police Chief Roni Alsheikh’s recent comments, according to which it is “natural” for police to be suspicious of Ethiopian Israelis, stirred much controversy. They…

By Haokets September 9, 2016

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