Captured Black soldier’s saga highlights racism in IsraelRamzy BaroudRelatives of Hisham Al-Sayed (C-R) and Avera Mengistu (C-L), two Israelis held by Hamas in Gaza in 2014. Not even enlisting in the military — Israel’s most revered institution — is enough to change Ethiopians’ position in Israeli society. For Ethiopian Jews, the humiliation and violence inflicted on Fikadey was a representation of years of suffering, racism and discrimination. Israel’s Ethiopian Jews number about 170,000, hardly making them an important political constituency in a remarkably divided and polarized society. While Palestinians are resisting Israel’s military occupation and apartheid, Ethiopian Jews should mount their own resistance for greater rights.

Source: Ethiopian News January 23, 2023 19:31 UTC