Israel Tells African Migrants, Asylum-Seekers To Leave Or Go To Jail
Key points:
- Israel has granted asylum to less than 1 percent of applicants since since signing the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called African migrants “a threat to the social fabric of society..."
- Netanyahu said Wednesday, using the derogatory term “infiltrators” to refer to African asylum-seekers.
- In 2012, more than half of Jewish Israelis reportedly agreed with a statement that African migrants are “a cancer in the body” of the nation...