Ethiopian Israelis, the right of return, and accusations of racism - from CifWatch.com


By Jonathan Hoffman
October 15, 2010
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"While Israel, of course, has its flaws – and, indeed there are many Israeli NGOs, and individuals, working hard to increase opportunities for Israelis of Ethiopian background, and working to end the lingering discrimination which continues to hamper such progress – Israel’s willingness to take immense political, economic, and military risks to rescue black Africans from poverty and war in one of the poorest and least politically stable regions in the world, and grant them immediate citizenship, is hard to reconcile with the facile narratives of Israel as a racist state."

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