protest to expel
Africans from South
Tel Aviv and all of
Israel - April 6,
2011
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NOTE: After 20,000
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comments in only 4
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protest to expel Africans from South Tel Aviv and all of Israel - April 6, 2011
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NOTE: After 20,000 views and 500 comments in only 4 days, I have decided to disable commenting on the video. Thank you for taking part in the conversation, if you took the time to add your insights. Unfortunately, over 90% of the comments ascribed inherently negative characteristics to all Israelis / Jews, or to all Blacks / Africans, or to both groups. I believe in free speech for everyone, even for opinions that I completely disagree with -- but I don't feel obligated to host a public forum for all of those views. It would be too time-consuming for me to filter all the comments, leaving only those that increase our understanding. It would probably be a more efficient use of my time to write more articles and film more videos about the state of democracy in the state of Israel. Thank you for making this video go viral! For more videos on similar subjects, visit the BLUEPILGRIMAGE YouTube channel and consider subscribing. Cheers =)
P.S. Yes, I know that when the first man filmed in the video mentions the Black Panthers, he is likely referring to the 1970s Arab-Jewish-Israeli copycat group, not the original African American group of the same name. But both groups were composed of dark-skinned people who experienced racism because they were racialized as Black by their respective societies, governed by power structures that were, and still are, dominated by light-skinned descendants of Europeans. At that time, I felt it important to contextualize the man's reference to the Black Panthers, because the comparison that he draws between the anti-African migrant movement in Israel and the Panthers could be considered by some to be very offensive. To put it in perspective, one might say it is the equivalent of calling an anti-Semitic group 'The Jewish Defense Force".
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