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Monday, 15 June 2020

Real and ACTUAL racism - in Israel

This is real and ACTUAL racism that remains unmentionable in Western media. From the exact same people that are Dividing and Conquering the people with this current media.

Photos of 'migrants' 

humiliated in Tel Aviv cause 

outrage


France 24,
5 January, 2020
A black man is grabbed and manhandled by a white man, who takes a selfie of them both, grinning, while the black man cringes. The photos that caught this moment shocked social media when they were posted online on April 26. We spoke with the photographer, who said it was an instance of deliberate humiliation and psychological violence, and regrets the way that his photos have been discussed and taken out of context online.

The scene took place in Tel Aviv, Israel, on April 24, and began to circulate online two days later, causing outrage. In the photos, a bare-chested black man has his hair grabbed and pulled by a white man who takes a photo of them both.
“It was like he was saying to this person, ‘You are inferior to me, entertain me’”
The FRANCE 24 Observers team were able to get in contact with the person who 
took the photo, Jonathan Small, who is an American photographer based in Tel 
Aviv. He explained what happened before and after the moment that he captured 
with his camera.
I often stroll along the beach in Tel Aviv. This evening, on Tuesday 24 April, it was 
around 6pm. I saw a group of three people, acting a bit boorishly, who went up to 
two black men who were using the shower on the beach. I have no idea who the 
black men were, but I thought they might be migrants in Israel. [There are around 
35,000 asylum-seekers in Israel, primarily Eritrean and Sudanese].

One man with a red T-shirt came over to joke around with them. There was 
something weird about the whole situations: He was mocking and teasing the 
migrants, who were smiling, but it was more like he was deliberately intimidating 
them. I was about six or seven metres away and I couldn’t hear what they were 
saying. But just by looking at how the black men were behaving, I knew that 
something wasn’t right. So I took out my camera to take a few photos, zooming in.

"No one really did anything"

It was just then that the man grabbed the migrant’s hair in his fist, like an animal. 
His attitude was strange: He was both friendly and violent at the same time, with a patronising air, as if he was saying to the man, “You are inferior to me, so entertain me”. While this was happening, 
the two black men were smiling, even laughing.

There were other witnesses. The whole thing only lasted a few minutes. No one, 
including me, did anything, other than take photos. I didn’t even go to speak to the black men, because they didn’t seem entirely sound, maybe they were high or drunk and didn’t even realise what 
had happened. I had a feeling that talking with them wouldn’t lead anywhere. So 
then I went home, and I didn’t feel alright. I decided to publish the photos. No one, 
homeless or not, black or white, in Israel or anywhere else, deserves to be treated like that.”



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