LETTER: Ethiopian community in Israel is victimised by racism
The Israeli government transported about 90,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel during the 1980s and 1990s, but for use as cheap labour
12 June 2019 - 05:00
I respectfully suggest that David Saks of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies checks his facts before he rushes into print that Israel’s Ethiopian Jewish community is an example that rebuts the reality that Israel is a racist and apartheid state (Letters, June 11 “Calling Israel an apartheid state is sheer absurdity.”)
True, the Israeli government transported about 90,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel during the 1980s and 1990s — albeit as cannon fodder for the army and cheap labour. ..
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