ISRAEL'S ANTI-AFRICAN RACISM

Israel is a racist state, and not just to Palestinians. Africans fleeing their homes for reasons such as war or hunger have found themselves on the receiving end of racially motivated abuses. In this snippet of a documentary from 2012, Max Blumenthal chronicles the anti-Black character prevalent in Israeli society, including at high levels of government.

In the context of Palestine, several Africans have asked, what does this have to do with Africa? First, support for the oppressed should carry no such conditions, and second, this video shows exactly why the two struggles are interconnected. Zionism as an ideology promotes the idea of one group of people as superior to others. It is thus inevitable that the state created exclusively for Jews would discriminate against Africans.

It goes further. Even African Jews have not been spared. Israel sterilized Ethiopian women to ensure that the white majority Jewish state doesn’t get ‘diluted’.

Video Credit Nation by
@MaxBlumenthal & @davidsheen, 2013