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More clutching at straws

I read the article you recommended. Here is what it said:

"The worst humiliation I ever suffered was two years ago, when I went out with army buddies to the TLV club in Tel Aviv. They wouldn't let me in. My Israeli friends were allowed in and I waited outside three hours. I swore never to go back there," he says."

How do we know they wouldn't let him in because he was Ethiopian? Was there a sign at the door that said "NO ETHIOPIANS"? And even if the bouncer was a racist and wouldn't let him in, why condemn an entire country for the behavior of one boob?

Here is more of what he said: Adamka, 30, who immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia in 1985, and now lives in Tel Aviv. "Although I've been here 20 years I don't feel Israeli. My identity is first Jewish and then Ethiopian. I don't feel I belong here."

So he FEELS like he doesn't belong? Wow, a huge civil rights abuse here!!

"...although they passed the military "melting pot" they still feel different and unwanted in Israelis' hangouts and prefer to hang out in their own places."

NOTE: They don't claim the Ethiopian Israelis can't vote, don't have the right to speak, protest, or criticize their government. They don't claim to be forced to live in only one neighborhood--only that they prefer to. They are not denied entrance in the University. Only that they feel like they don't fit in.

"...I tried to fit in and go to Israelis' places, but did not succeed."

Again, the charge is that he doesn't fit in. This is what every teenager feels at one time. This is what a kid feels when he goes to a new school. This is not racism. It is not a human rights abuse. Its not even clearly discrimination. Nor do the authors claim the Israelis discriminate against them by law.

If this is some kind of expose on how badly the Israelis treat the Ethiopians, you haven't uncovered much.

"The young Ethiopians feel lost in Israeli society. They have served in the IDF and many go to university, yet they cannot integrate."

Certainly individual Israelis are racists. But the Israeli government does not have any laws which discriminate against Ethiopians.
 


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