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Violence surged in the streets of Tel Aviv as a 1000-strong protest against African immigrants seeking asylum in Israel turned violent.
Residents of a low-income Tel Aviv neighbourhood descended to the streets, waving Israeli flags and chanting “Deport the Sudanese” and “Infiltrators get out of our homes” to protest against the increase of African migrants moving into the area and the country.

The protest rapidly turned violent and police arrested 17 people with charges ranging from assault to vandalism. Some of them were still beating up migrants when they were arrested.

Protesters in the Hatikva neighbourhood set trash cans alight, broke some stores window and attacked African migrants who were passing-by. They also attacked an African migrant driving through the area and broke his car’s windows.

Reports suggest the protesters targeted local shops known to have African migrants as customers.

Originally Posted by Munchkin03 (Post 2149585)

My plan was to go to Israel this summer but between the political situation and the blatant racism that's happening I'm thinking better of it. It's not like it's going anywhere...

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby (Post 2149597)

Wait, so THIS is the incident that makes you think Israelis are racist?

Originally Posted by Munchkin03 (Post 2149602)

No. I just don't think this is the best time for me to go to Israel; it's really more of the political situation but this doesn't help.

Originally Posted by fina (Post 2149655)

The blacks are being judged based on the content of their character.