[NEWS] ISRAEL BEGINS MASS DEPORTATION OF NIGERIANS

In what looks like a crackdown on immigrants in
their country, Israel has started a massive
deportation of Africans comprising mainly
Nigerians in what they called ‘operation clean
up’.
In the last few weeks no fewer than 50 Nigerians
have been deported from the middle east country
for reasons ranging from what they termed
illegal stay, work permit and other flimsy
excuses.
Due to the recent series of offensive and racist
statements made by Israeli politicians, African
diplomats in Israel are afraid to walk down the
street, said African ambassadors in Israel during
a meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Danny
Ayalon.


The meeting, which was attended by the
ambassadors of Angola, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya,
Ethiopia and the Ivory Coast, was recently held
in the Foreign Ministry’s offices in Jerusalem,
Yedioth Ahronoth, an Israeli newspaper
reported.This was after the wife of the Ghanian
ambassador was arrested by Israeli police where
she was on shopping in Tel Aviv.
Israeli’s claim that immigrants are responsible
for the ongoing series of rapes and muggings
committed in their country is a way of calling a
dog a bad name in order to hang it.
Reports from Tel Aviv where most of the
immigrants live show that most of them now hide
inside their apartments without going to work for
fear of being arrested while on the street. ’Many
Nigerians living in Israel are very law abiding
and go their normal businesses’ said an official of
the Nigerian community who doesn’t want his
name in print.