THE U.S. IS NOT ALONE IN CONDONING POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST MINORITIES
Regarding The Israel Race Riots on May 3 - 4 2015
The event that sparked off the wave of protest was a video of two police officers attacking an Ethiopian soldier last week in Holon. The police investigated the incident and one of the officers involved will be dismissed, but that has done little to calm the anger within the Ethiopian community over what they claim is an underlying problem of racism among the police and repeated cover-ups of complaints over police violence.
READ MORE: http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/135899/israel-hit-race-riots
"The race riots engulfing Tel Aviv [May 3 - 4 2015] bear some resemblance to the violence that shook the streets of Baltimore last week. In both protests saw a disenfranchised black minority’s anger over police brutality spilled on to the streets. In both cases, police reacted to this anger with more violence...
Israel is quick to show off its Ethiopian Jewish population as an example of the country’s multiculturalism and tolerance. While the country was able to airlift 60,000 Ethiopians to Israel in the 1980s and 1990s, their experience after arrival has been anything but easy. This is because Israel is crisscrossed by a multitude of racial and ethnic fault lines. From overt racism towards Palestinians to the rifts between Jews from Arab countries and those from Europe, Israel is one of the region’s most divided societies."
READ MORE: http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/tel-aviv-race-riots-are-a-symptom-of-israels-deep-dysfunction
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