{"id":74216,"date":"2015-09-10T15:39:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T23:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74216"},"modified":"2015-09-10T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T23:39:21","slug":"israel-the-syrian-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74216","title":{"rendered":"Israel & The Syrian Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Mondoweiss<\/a>: Israel has refused to take a single refugee.<\/p>\n

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog called on<\/a> Netanyahu’s hard-line right-wing government “to act toward receiving refugees from the war in Syria, in addition to the humanitarian efforts it is already making.”<\/p>\n

“Jews cannot be indifferent while hundreds of thousands of refugees are looking for safe haven,” Herzog added.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu, however, refuses to admit any asylum-seekers, arguing Israel “lacks demographic and geographic depth.” “We must control our borders, against both illegal migrants and terrorism,” the prime minister said.<\/p>\n

In fact, the Israeli government is going so far as to build a wall on the Jordanian border to prevent refugees from coming into the country. They plan on connecting the wall<\/a> with those already built on the Egyptian and Golan Heights borders.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

An anti-refugee cartoon in conservative Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Journalist David Sheen shared a racist cartoon published by right-wing Israeli newspaper<\/a> Makor Rishon<\/em>. The cartoon depicts a drowning Syrian refugee child crying for help while a white European man “drowning” in a crowd of (literally) brown people also cries for help.<\/p>\n

Israel has been notoriously harsh in its treatment of refugees, particularly Africans. The Israeli government has granted refugee status to just 0.07% of African asylum seekers<\/a>. Thousands of refugees are held in internment camp-like conditions in the Holot detention center. Israeli politicians call African refugees \u201cinfiltrators\u201d and \u201ccancer,\u201d<\/a> and openly use the n-word to refer to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Mondoweiss: Israel has refused to take a single refugee. Opposition leader Isaac Herzog called on Netanyahu’s hard-line right-wing government “to act toward receiving refugees from the war in Syria, in addition to the humanitarian efforts it is already making.” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t