Tel Aviv racist even toward Israelis: Analyst
Press TV has interviewed Ajamu Baraka, a human rights activist, in Colombia, and Richard Millet, a journalist and political commentator, in London, to discuss the repression of Ethiopian in Israel.
Baraka says the Ethiopian community has been aware of racial treatments in Israel, but the new images of beating an Ethiopian man by Israeli police have sparked anger among the community and prompted them to come out to the streets of Tel Aviv.
Israel is racist not only toward Palestinians but also toward Israelis, including Ethiopians and Mizrahi Jews, he says.
He also says that, despite the fact that the Ethiopian individual was wearing the uniform of the Israeli military, he was perceived by racist Israeli policemen as part of a “sub-human sector of Israeli society.”
Comparing Israel to the United States, Baraka says what is connective between the US and the Israeli experience is that they are both settler colonies, and at the center of the “settler colonial project” are race, violence and lack of recognition of the right of the people whose land is being stolen.
Millet, for his part, says there are social problems inside Israel, where many people are struggling because of poverty, but the reason of the poverty is that Tel Aviv spends a lot of money for its own protection from ‘outside enemies.’
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