Friends of Mesila

09/08/2016

Asylum Seekers in the media! We're excited, how about you?

Director and producer Gideon Raff to put bestselling story by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen about an Israeli who hits an Eritrean refugee with his car and flees.

09/08/2016

What are your thoughts on the new patrols?

02/05/2016

"Israel has experienced many tragedies," said Ayeli Ergai. "The Jews suffered as slaves in Egypt and during the N**i regime. Israel of all places should understand what we are experiencing."
The hope and hopelessness of a Holot passover.

Israelis and refugees celebrated Passover at the Holot detention center to bring attention to the refugees' lack of freedom and the conditions at the facility.

07/11/2015

This will be an interesting talk on a topic we often ignore.

David Sheen said he started covering racist acts committed against African immigrants in Israel for an Israeli newspaper in 2010.

27/05/2015

This opinion piece is a pretty convincing plea to conservatives and liberals alike.

Current government treatment of African asylum seekers clearly violates time-honored Jewish values.

17/05/2015

Remember that petition?

16/05/2015

A Wretched Fate for 'Infiltrators': African Asylum Seekers Have Few Options in Israel http://buff.ly/1Earsvj via VICE News

VICE News visited Israel's Holot detention center for asylum seekers, condemned by the country's own High Court as inhumane. The country refuses almost all asylum requests from Africans.

15/05/2015

Here's an idea. Put pressure on the states asylum seekers and refugees are being forced to flee.

Leaders of a demonstration by Eritrean refugees in Israel have called on the international community to end relations with the country. The call comes ahead of a meeting in Brussels where EU states will discuss a proposed quota system that would apportion the number of asylum seekers each should acc…

15/05/2015

Dare we hope? Israel delaying deportation of asylum seekers to Africa http://buff.ly/1JO5TFM

Migrants were told they were to be deported to the African states, but the government has yet to carry out its latest policy.

10/05/2015

The new coalition has serious consequences for Israel and its refugee population. Read on to discover just what those are.

Devoid of any platform, Israel's new government will lead racist legislation while working to gut the courts - but razor thin majority gives opposition a fighting chance.

07/05/2015

A must read.

A refugee describes how promises of work in a recent Israeli agreement with Rwanda failed to materialise, leaving him living in limbo in South Sudan.

04/05/2015

The stakes are ever growing. With Uganda denying any arrangement with Israel and Rwanda not providing asylum seekers their protective rights, the newly formed government's "solution" is looking more and more like a violation of international law.

Approximately 100 people rally in support of asylum seekers in Tel Aviv; group met by counter-demonstration