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Casablanca landlords try to ban renting to Africans

Photo posted on Facebook and sent by one of our Observers in Casablanca.


“Renting apartments to Africans is strictly forbidden”. This message hangs in several building lobbies in Casablanca, Morocco. Some landlords have been enforcing this rule, even though it is completely illegal. Our Observer, a student from the Ivory Coast, experienced this discrimination firsthand a few months ago.

Several photos of these posters, written in both French and Arabic, have been circulating on social networks over the past few days. According to our Observers, the photos were taken in buildings in the residential Farah Essalam neighbourhood in the Oulfa area, where many students from sub-Saharan Africa live. Similar posters have also been reported in other parts of town.

While Morocco is located in northern Africa, many Moroccans don't consider themselves "Africans", a term they generally use to refer to sub-Saharan Africans.

Photo posted onFacebookand sent by one of our Observers in Casablanca.
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Nafissa

Mme Benzekri

“The building’s apartment owners ganged up on us”
Nafissa (not her real name) is studying science in Casablanca. She is from Ivory Coast.

In 2012, three of us students were renting an apartment in the Areeda residence in the Oulfa area. As Africans, we quickly became the target of threats from residents who didn’t want to have us as neighbours.

One day, when we came home from university, we came across this poster. At first, we didn’t know it was aimed at us, but then someone translated it for us. We were really shocked.

Poster photographed at the end of 2012 by Nafissa at the Areeda residence. “It is strictly prohibited to lease apartments to Africans in this building. Signed: all the apartment owners.”

After that, we got even more threats than before. Our apartment’s landlord did everything he could to help us, but under growing pressure from the other apartment owners, he had to order us to leave, which we refused. On January 1, 2013, the police came to force us to leave. We were taken down to the police station. My friend was slapped by an officer. We still don’t know what legal basis the police acted on.

I haven’t been back to our old building since, but my friends tell me that the poster is still there. I’d like to say it’s an isolated case, but my experience makes me think otherwise. From the first day at my new apartment, the residents have been asking the landlord to kick us out. But we’ve signed a lease, which the landlord has so far refused to terminate.

Discrimination against Africans has been firmly rooted here. Not all relationships with Moroccans are this confrontational, but life is definitely more unpleasant if you’re black. Personally, I’ve had stones thrown at me on the street several times, sometimes even fruit, depending on the person’s mood.

Nafissa

“Having one bad experience doesn’t justify this”
Mrs Benzekri is owns an apartment at the Areeda residence, from which Nafissa was kicked out.

I can personally confirm these types of posters are in two buildings including my own, but there are probably others. I think it’s scandalous, and I’ve made this known to the building’s management. These posters are absolutely illegal. The law does not permit such discrimination. I have had African students as renters, and they’ve been great.

Some of my friends and relatives, themselves landlords, have had bad experiences with their renters and thus draw conclusions about all Africans. One of them leased an apartment to two students, who quickly divided the rooms with partition walls - without permission - and rented out space to immigrants working as street vendors. In the end, the two students left without warning, and the apartment was occupied for months by people who didn’t pay rent. So they had to bring in the police to clear them out. The neighbours also put pressure on the authorities, saying 10 people lived there, and that they made a lot of noise.

There’s always a chance of coming across bad renters, but to use this excuse to ban all Africans is just absurd. If people start thinking like this, then why not simply stop them from entering the country when they land at the airport? However, that’s not the King’s policy at all, since he is doing everything to make sure African students come to Morocco.

Casablanca landlords try to ban renting to Africans | The Observers

 

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Ethiopian migrants tell of torture and rape in Yemen
By Yalda HakimBBC News, Yemen
Efta is just 17 but has experienced shocking brutality.

The Ethiopian teenager survived a treacherous boat journey being smuggled across the Red Sea.

But on reaching Yemen, she was kidnapped and driven at gunpoint to a mud brick house.

She said: "They tortured other girls in front of me. They beat us and they raped us at gunpoint. I was terrified."

She is one of 80,000 Ethiopian migrants who undertake this dangerous journey every year.

They hope they will find work in the wealthy Gulf state of Saudi Arabia and be able to send money home.

But they risk being exploited by criminal gangs and the Yemeni military in the 500 km (310 miles) trek across Yemen to the Saudi border.

'Raped and burned'
Efta was held at what is known as a "torture camp" for three months.

She was too ashamed to ask her parents for money to set her free so she was raped every day.

Once it became clear that no ransom was going to be paid and after Efta fell ill, she was thrown out on the street.

She is now being cared for in a refugee centre run by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the Yemeni border town of Haradh.

She remains traumatised by her experience.

"The women get raped and the men are burned. They break bones. They take people's eyes out," she said.

"Everything you can imagine, they do it. I saw it with my own eyes."

Most of the Ethiopians we met came from the Tigray region in the north of the country.

They crossed the mountains into Djibouti and then paid people smugglers to take them across the Red Sea at its shortest point, Bab al-Mandab (or the Gate of Grief).

It was a harbinger of the trials and tribulations ahead of them where thousands are tortured and sexually exploited by people smugglers.

And if they make it to Haradh, many die trying to get across the heavily-fortified border into Saudi Arabia.

Saleh Sabri is the local undertaker. He has lost count of the number of migrants he has buried.

"Some people are shot at the border. Some have been hung. Some are beaten to death," he said.

"They all die from unnatural causes."

Inside 'torture camp'
For centuries, Haradh has thrived on gun-running and drug-smuggling. Now, the commodity is people.

The Medecins Sans Frontieres charity says there are an estimated 200 "torture camps" in this area alone.

We become the first journalists to enter one after we are promised safe passage by a local judge.

One of the judge's soldiers accompanies us for our safety.

We drive across sand dunes to reach a mud brick house on the outskirts of town.

As we enter, there appear to be five migrants sitting on the ground with two armed men guarding them.

We ask them if they have been abused.

"For the last three days, they have threatened to beat us if our families don't pay," said one migrant.

We then spot the entrance to a small room at the edge of the compound.

The soldier says this is where the migrant women are taken.

We ask to go inside but the soldier says what is going on behind the door could be haram, meaning forbidden.

We are told there could be a man and a woman in there.

We are not allowed to knock on the closed door but there are two pairs of shoes outside.

A man then appears with a pistol who says he was the owner of the camp. We ask him if torture exists on this farm.

"That's forbidden," he said.

"There's no torture here. If we were capturing them by force, we'd have plenty of migrants there. They come here willingly."

We also ask if there are women here.

"No, there's no women in this farm," he said.

After we left, we visited a senior local police officer and told him what we had seen.

We understand that the next day, all the migrants in the camp were released.

The International Organization for Migration says it is dealing with an "international humanitarian crisis".

Failed state
But Yemen is ill-equipped to solve this problem when it is fighting two insurgencies that have displaced tens of thousands.

International aid is mainly directed towards them and the 200,000 Somali refugees in the south.

In the vacuum, gangs of kidnappers and torturers seem to operate at will.

But many Ethiopian migrants say the Yemeni army is complicit.

Efta said the men who kidnapped her were dressed in military clothing.

"They were wearing army uniforms," she said.

"So that's why we did what they said. We didn't think they would do all of this to us."

She also said the same men - Yemeni soldiers - raped her at the 'torture camp'.

And 16-year-old Asma said the same. She nearly made it past the Yemeni guards at the Saudi border.

"Then the Yemeni army came," she said.

"They caught us. They sold us to the torture camp."

Asma was raped by up to three men every day for two months. She got out because one of her captors, she said, felt pity for her.

She is also living in the refugee centre in Haradh.

We requested an interview with the Yemeni government about the treatment of migrants but our request was declined.

The undertaker of Haradh is used to operating without government support.

"I have 40 bodies in the morgue and I have only six draws to store them," said Saleh Sabri.

He still washes and prepares the bodies in the traditional way.

"I'm a simple man with a simple job," he said.

"I take care of the morgue so I must take care of these poor unknown people. I do it for God."

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To top it off

Dubai sentences Norwegian woman who reported rape

Rights groups are calling for Marte Deborah Dalelv's conviction to be quashed
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A young Norwegian woman has spoken out about the 16-month prison sentence she received in Dubai after reporting a rape incident to police.

Interior designer Marte Deborah Dalelv was on a business trip in Dubai when she says she was raped.

The 25-year-old reported the March attack to the police but found herself charged with having extramarital sex, drinking alcohol, and perjury.

Convicted earlier this week, she says she is appealing against the verdict.

The appeal hearing is scheduled for early September.

Describing the sentence as "very harsh", she told the AFP news agency: "I am very nervous and tense. But I hope for the best and I take one day at a time. I just have to get through this."

The case has angered rights groups and the authorities in Norway.

Dubai's strict laws about extramarital sex have caught out foreign visitors in the past.

'Wanted'
Ms Dalelv says she had been on a night out with colleagues on 6 March when the rape took place.

She reported it to the police, who proceeded to confiscate her passport and seize her money. She was charged four days later on three counts, including having sex outside marriage.

The Norwegian government had secured her a conditional release so she has been living under the protection of the Norwegian Seamans' centre in Dubai.

But she told Norway'sNRK Newsthat following her sentencing on Tuesday she was now officially wanted by the Dubai authorities.

"I should have been imprisoned since Tuesday," she said. "But I have been told they are not searching for me."

The sentence has been condemned by Norway's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide who is quoted as saying that it "flies in the face of our notion of justice" and was "highly problematic from a human rights perspective".

The Norwegian authorities are reportedly trying to contact the authorities in Dubai about the situation.

The London-based Emirates Centre for Human Rights called on the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to which Dubai belongs, to quash Ms Dalelv's conviction.

It said the UAE's claims that it is attempting to end discrimination against women was undermined by a legal system that "prohibits the achievement of justice for cases of sexual violence against women".

Currently, the law stipulates that, to gain a rape conviction, there must either be a confession or for four adult male witnesses to the crime.

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Where were you in the sterilization of Ethiopian women in Israel? Picking and choosing your battles again?

 

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Where were you in the sterilization of Ethiopian women in Israel?

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No one's denying that there are Arabs that are racist/xenophobic, but since you want to discuss xenophobia, lets talk about some of the things the Jews are doing in Israel; I'd like your input since you're a Jew.
Settlers to Ethiopian troops: ******s don't expel Jews - Israel News, Ynetnews
Settlers to Ethiopian troops: ******s don't expel Jews
Border Guard officers of Ethiopian descent report rising number of racially motivated verbal attacks from Hebron youths; Druze officers also suffer racist remarks

Danny Adino Ababa

Published: 12.04.08, 11:39 / Israel News
Not only do they serve long and tiring hours in the reserve forces, and not only are they forced to deal with violent clashes with settlers, but now, Border Guard officers of Ethiopian descent are also faced with rising racism.

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"******s don't expel Jews! This isn't what we brought you to Israel for!" are just some of the degrading slurs Border Guard officers reported hearing from masked settlers.
During the violent clashes between Israeli forces and settlers in Hebron on Tuesday "a bunch of veiled people started yelling at us: Who are you to expel us from our home? An Ethiopian does not expel a Jew! A ****** does not expel a Jew!" one Border Guard officer of Ethiopian descent recounted.
"I just didn't know what to do with myself," he said.
Officers 'deeply offended' by remarks
And it turns out this was not the only such incident to take place. Another officer reported that while arriving to make an arrest about a week and-a-half ago, a group of youths verbally attacked him saying, "Who told you to come and evacuate us? You Ethiopians. What are you, this State's ******s? Olmert's ******s?"
The officers said they were deeply offended by these remarks, but stressed that the ones making them were settler youths coming from outside of Hebron, and not the residents of the Jewish settlement or Kiryat Arba, who have treated them with respect.
Border Guard sources reported that racist remarks were also made against Druze soldiers. "We knew that this would happen so we instructed our officers in advance," said a source.
"We harshly condemn those extremists that bring a bad name to an entire public by using racial slurs against Border Guard fighters that spend night and day protecting residents of the West Bank.
"As part of the preparations for the mission the fighters were instructed to ignore such comments and carry out their mission with the utmost professionalism."
Zvi Zinger contributed to this report

Dozens of top Israeli rabbis sign ruling to forbid rental of homes to Arabs - Israel News | Haaretz
Dozens of top Israeli rabbis sign ruling to forbid rental of homes to Arabs
The religious ruling comes just months after a group of 18 prominent rabbis, including the chief rabbi of Safed, signed a call to that effect.
By [URL='http://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/chaim-levinson-1.424']Chaim Levinson | Dec. 7, 2010 | 10:13 AM |

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Dozens of Israel's municipal chief rabbis have signed on to a new religious ruling that would forbid the rental of homes to gentiles in a move particularly aimed against Arabs, Haaretz has learned.

The religious ruling comes just months after a group of 18 prominent rabbis, including the chief rabbi of Safed, signed a call urging Jews to refrain from renting or selling apartments to non-Jews.

Most of the signatories to the letter are from Safed, a city that has seen an increase in its Arab student population that is enrolled at the town's local college. Safed chief rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, who has been criticized in the past for incendiary remarks against Arabs, is the most prominent figure to sign the letter.

The group to sign on to the religious ruling includes the chief rabbis of Ramat Hasharon, Ashdod, Kiryat Gat, Rishon Letzion, Carmiel, Gadera, Afula, Nahariya, Herzliya, Nahariya and Pardes Hannah, among a number of other cities.

The signatories also called on the religious community to voice support Rabbi Eliyahu, who could face trial for incitement against Arabs. Minority Affairs Minister Avishay Braverman has also asked Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman to begin the process of suspending Eliyahu immediately from his post as municipal rabbi.

Politicos from the national religious sector believe that the mass of prominent figures who signed on to the ruling – all of whose salaries are paid by public funds - will send a message to the attorney general to take Eliyahu's position seriously.

The rabbis' letter, which was first published months ago and reprinted in October, urges Jewish owners of apartments to reconsider renting their properties to Arabs since it would deflate the value of their homes as well as those in the neighborhood.

"Their way of life is different than that of Jews," the letter stated. "Among [the gentiles] are those who are bitter and hateful toward us and who meddle into our lives to the point where they are a danger."

The rabbis also urge neighbors of anyone renting or selling property to Arabs to caution that person. After delivering the warning, the neighbor is then encouraged to issue notices to the general public and inform the community.

"The neighbors and acquaintances [of a Jew who sells or rents to an Arab] must distance themselves from the Jew, refrain from doing business with him, deny him the right to read from the Torah, and similarly [ostracize] him until he goes back on this harmful deed," the letter reads.
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Chinese workers in Israel sign no-sex contract | World news | The Guardian

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Chinese workers at a company in Israel have been forced to agree not to have sex with or marry Israelis as a condition of getting a job.
According to a contact they are required to sign, male workers may not have any contact with Israeli women - including prostitutes, a police spokesman, Rafi Yaffe, said.

He said there was nothing illegal about the requirement and that no investigation had been opened.

An Israeli lawyer who did not want to be named said while the contract might appear legal, it would be rejected if challenged in court. "The point is that a Chinese worker will agree to anything and then will not have anyone to help them if there is a problem," he said.

The labourers are also forbidden from engaging in any religious or political activity. The contract states that offenders will be sent back to China at their own expense.

About 260,000 foreigners work in Israel, having replaced Palestinian labourers during three years of fighting. When the government first allowed the entrance of the foreign workers in the late 1990s, ministers warned of a "social timebomb" caused by their assimilation with Israelis.

More than half the workers are in the country illegally. Israeli police have increased efforts to deport those working without permits because of rising Israeli unemployment, which has reached 11% in recent months.

Advocates of foreign workers, who also come from Thailand, the Philippines and Romania, say they are subject to almost slave conditions, and their employers often take away their passports and refuse to pay them.

Analysts say there is much division within Israeli society over immigration and status, although the conflict with the Palestinians has given it an appearance of unity. Recent immigrants such as Russians and Ethiopians are disliked by older immigrants, and there is much resentment among secular Israelis at the privileges given to ultra-orthodox Jews. The foreign workers are at the bottom of the pile.

Israel gave birth control to Ethiopian Jews without their consent - Middle East - World - The Independent

Israel gave birth control to Ethiopian Jews without their consent





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Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent.

The government had previously denied the practice but the Israeli Health Ministry’s director-general has now ordered gynaecologists to stop administering the drugs. According a report in Haaretz, suspicions were first raised by an investigative journalist, Gal Gabbay, who interviewed more than 30 women from Ethiopia in an attempt to discover why birth rates in the community had fallen dramatically.

One of the Ethiopian women who was interviewed is quoted as saying: “They [medical staff] told us they are inoculations. We took it every three months. We said we didn’t want to.” It is alleged that some of the women were forced or coerced to take the drug while in transit camps in Ethiopia.

The drug in question is thought to be Depo-Provera, which is injected every three months and is considered to be a highly effective, long-lasting contraceptive.

Nearly 100,000 Ethiopian Jews have moved to Israel under the Law of Return since the 1980s, but their Jewishness has been questioned by some rabbis. Last year, the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who also holds the health portfolio, warned that illegal immigrants from Africa “threaten our existence as a Jewish and democratic state”.

Haaretz published an extract from a letter sent by the Ministry of Health to units administering the drug. Doctors were told “not to renew prescriptions for Depo Provera for women of Ethiopian origin if for any reason there is concern that they might not understand the ramifications of the treatment”.

Sharona Eliahu Chai, a lawyer for the Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), said: “Findings from investigations into the use of Depo Provera are extremely worrisome, raising concerns of harmful health policies with racist implications in violation of medical ethics. The Ministry of Health’s director-general was right to act quickly and put forth new guidelines.”

 

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No ignant negro you aren't talking about Israel and it's racist views on Black People. Got to love your nit picking views. No Religion other than Kemetic Traditions of Kemet respect and understands black women.

 

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A spitting incident sets off Israeli frustration with Jewish zealotry - CSMonitor.com

A spitting incident sets off Israeli frustration with Jewish zealotry

The harassment of a schoolgirl by Beit Shemesh's ultra-Orthodox community has ignited mainstream Israelis' simmering frustrations with the religious community's growing influence.

By Joshua Mitnick, Correspondent / December 27, 2011

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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stands with children near a police barricade before a protest against violence by religious zealots trying to impose their religious code on the town of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem, Tuesday. Several thousand pro-democracy activists protested on Tuesday in the flashpoint town at a rally organised after an outburst of public anger when an eight-year-old girl said on national television that ultra-Orthodox men had spat at her on her way to school, accusing her of immodest dress.

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The harassment of an 8-year-old girl by ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Shemesh is shaking Israel’s self image to the core, stirring nationwide outrage about escalating religious zealotry and creeping public segregation of women.

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For months, Na’ama Margolis and classmates at her school endured insults and spitting by the neighborhood's strict Orthodox Jews – known in Hebrew as "Haredi,'' or God fearing – who complain that they should dress more modestly. When their story was featured on a weekend news magazine several days ago, it ignited already simmering worry about efforts of the ultra-religious to exclude women in places like public buses or the army.

"I think the whole country needs to wake up … that it’s not just a corner in Beit Shemesh,’’ said Ailsa Coleman, a 42-year-old neighbor who volunteered to escort Margolis's classmates outside the school and was also spat on. "It’s happening everywhere."

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In recent days there have been repeated clashes between ultra-Orthodox protesters and police and attacks on news crews in Beit Shemesh. Thousands of protesters gathered in the city with signs reading "Segregation of Women is my Red Line’’ and warning of an Israeli theocracy.

The segregation reflects the Haredi minority's growing influence on Israel's politics and economy. Civil rights advocates and Beit Shemesh locals say that the government and law enforcement authorities have turned a blind eye, even though the examples of exclusion proliferate.

They point to special arrangements for ultra-Orthodox communities where women are relegated to the rear of the buses, have separate lines in eateries, and sit in health clinic waiting rooms that are divided by gender. There are also efforts to erase images of women from public billboards. Last week, a secular woman was heckled for riding in the front of one of the buses and pressured to move.

"This ties into whether we are democratic liberal state that protects women’s rights, or whether we’re not going to be a democracy in a future," said Einat Horovitz, a spokeswoman of the Religious Action Center, an Israeli nonprofit which challenged the bus segregation in Israel’s Supreme Court. "Politicians don’t realize that being a democracy isn’t only about the rule of the majority, its about protecting human rights and the rights of the minority, and this has escaped our politicians."

In Beit Shemesh, prominent signs calling for modest dress and excluding women from certain sidewalks near synagogues have been tolerated for years in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood near the elementary school, which happens to serve a less strict group of Orthodox Jews.
In a statement, the Haredi rabbis of Beit Shemesh insisted that even without the signs, ultra-Orthodox women would follow rules of modesty...




Women worshippers attacked by ultra-Orthodox men at Western Wall - Salon.com
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Women worshippers attacked by ultra-Orthodox men at Western Wall
Men of the conservative Haredi sect threw garbage, spit at and verbally harassed women at the Jewish holy site
By Katie Mcdonough

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  A group of male Haredi protestors at Jerusalem’s Western Wall on Friday morning spit, threw garbage and shouted abuse at the Women of the Wall, a feminist group of female worshippers. In addition to injuries sustained by the praying women, two police officers were treated at the scene. The incident ended with the arrest of three of the ultra-Orthodox men...
  

 

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