Ethiopians clash with police; 8 hurt
Sheera Claire Frenkel, THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 6, 2006
What was meant to be a peaceful rally for Ethiopian rights turned violent Monday, when demonstrators clashed with police in front of the Health Ministry in Jerusalem, leaving 19 people injured.
More than 200 people gathered in front of the government compound to protest discrimination against Ethiopians. The boiling point, they said, was a recent decision by the Health Ministry to discard donated Ethiopian blood.
“We won’t allow our blood to be spilled like this. The Torah says that blood is the soul. How can this country treat us, fellow Jews, this way?” said Gadi Yabarken, one of the protest’s organizers. “We will not leave unless the prime minister agrees to meet with us.”
While Prime Minister Ehud Olmert refused to meet with the protesters, Immigration and Absorption Minister Ze’ev Boim met with a small group of their representatives and promised to approach Olmert to ask him to create a ministerial committee dedicated to the Ethiopian community. Boim also promised to work for the release the five activists who were arrested during the protest.
The only politician to address the protest was MK Ran Cohen (Meretz). “I feel your pain. A country that discriminates against Ethiopian Jews is a racist country,” said Cohen, who added that he would raise the issue in the Knesset plenum.
Demonstrators answered Cohen’s speech with shouts that they were “sick of the false promises” of politicians.
Yabarken said the government had not upheld any of its promises to advance Ethiopian rights or deal with problems such as raising the salaries of Ethiopian religious leaders to match other rabbis, expand Falash Mura immigration or increase affirmative-action programs.
“These problems have been building up for some time, but to find out that they will throw our blood away, for no reason other than racist discrimination, that is too much to bear,” Yabarken said.
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Lee
You sound like a righteous man to me. That is a joyful thing indeed.
As for devils and company, I really don’t see the context for such conclusions here.
In this forum, we seek the knowledge that brings happiness. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Respect to you my brethren, for respect must be shown to the deserving.
One Love
Jahdey
Its time we burn all these monkeys out. As a Jew, I have seen first hand what these beasts have done to our population. I only with these niggers had been left in Africa so they could all die of aids together.
Jason KKK
You are no Jew, sir. You are one dumb damn-blasted KKK goy trying to do some race baiting. One dumb, wretched, weak, self-hating and joyless impotent.
Jahdey
I AM A BLCK JEW IN THE UNITED STATES, RESENTLY BECAME A JEW. JEW IS NOT A NATIONALITY OR RACE ITS A SPIRITUAL BELIEF. IF WE EMBRACE LIFE AND THE TRUTH WE ARE ALL JEWS. THE JEWS IN ISRAEL HAVE STUCK TOGETHER THROUGH IDENTITY. (COLOR) SOMETIMES AS PEOPLE WE ONLY IDENTIFY WITH SOME ONE WE LOOK LIKE BECAUSE WE FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE. JEWS OF THE OLD DAYS WERE ALL MIXED PEOPLE.IF YOU DO AN EDUCATIONAL SEARCH YOU’LL FIND WHAT A JEW IS. AS FAR AS AFRICA I KNOW THAT THE WHITE MAN WITH ALL THEIR SCIENCE HAS POISONED MY AFRICAN PEOPLE. ITS SAD THAT THEY WANT TO KILL WHAT THEY DONT UNDERSTAND. THATS WHY I’M HAPPY TO SEE SO MANY BIRACIAL CHILDREN IN THE WORLD.THEY KILL US, WE MIX WITH THEM. IN THE FUTURE 100 YEARS OR SO THEYRE WONT BE ONE PURE WHITE IN THE UNITED STATES AND I’LL BE GLAD TO GET RID OF THAT CURSED,DISEASED GENE BECAUSE THATS ALL IT IS, AN INFECTED GENE LIKE ALBINOS MABEY SOME COLOR WILL HELP THE DNA.
the europeans are the babyloniansand the blacks are the israelites
daniel chapter eleven verse 43 down bush and his gang are the kings of the north while the king bof the south is persia in other words iran the king of the noth will attack bot will get a stab in the back by china and possiblr russia check it out
hmmmm interesting topic but when it come to the jews, it is basically is this like other race. who is actually the good and who is the bad guy? we have been classifying Jews into one race where we can do whatever we want with them. the irony of we classified the Jew into one race just as we called everyone else Asian, white , Hispanic, African, etc. so why don’t we look at the individuality rather the whole?