To survive as a civilization, you have to exclude others, otherwise you get swamped. Israel is making the tough decisions it has to to survive. Will America and Europe get real?
Israel does not need any more low-IQ non-Jews in its midst and America does not need any more low-IQ immigrants.
Fellow asylum seekers say Eritrean refugee shot and beaten by mob was killed by racism, not by mistake.
Israeli media and authorities say that Eritrean asylum seeker Habtom Zarhum died because he was mistaken for a Palestinian terrorist. His friends and fellow refugees don’t believe it: He was killed by racism, they say, fearing they could face the same fate at any moment.
“I have lived in Israel for seven years,” said Awet Asheber, a 35-year-old Sudanese. “I have never been mistaken for an Arab. We don’t look the same. Look at my skin color – it’s the same color as Habtom’s. We look African – not Arab!”
Zarhum, 29, was attacked and beaten on Sunday as he lay in a pool of blood on the floor of the Be’er Sheva Central Bus Station after being shot by a security guard who suspected he had carried out the terror attack that just took place there. While some tried to protect him, the mob repeatedly charged at him, kicking him in the head and throwing a bench at him.
Asheber, who was recently released from the Holot detention facility for asylum seekers, believes that the “lynch,” as the attack is referred to in Hebrew, merely provided the incensed crowd with an opportunity to vent their racism against Africans. “They beat him as if he were a snake. Israeli society has called us a cancer,” he said, referring to 2012 comments by then-MK and current Culture Minister Miri Regev. “They call us infiltrators and don’t realize that we are here because we have nowhere else to go. It was racism that killed Habtom, and it can kill any one of us,” Asheber said.
On Wednesday night, thousands of Africans, along with dozens of Israelis, crowded into Levinsky Park in south Tel Aviv for a memorial service for Zarhum. The event was organized by lay leaders in the Eritrean community, along with some logistical aid from Israeli NGO’s including the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants. Religious officials representing the Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Pentecostal denominations offered condolence prayers and encouraged the assembled to observe their faith. Most spoke in Tigrinya, one of Eritrea’s official languages. The crowd listened quietly, but the undercurrent of rage was palpable. Next to an unused bomb shelter that served as a stage, the organizers had hung a large sign, reading “The Barbaric Act of Beheading an Innocent Eritrean,” along with a picture of Zarhum, Israeli and Eritrean flags, and a cross.
