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Palestinian activists destroy part of the separation wall in the West Bank village of Bir Nabala, near Ramallah, Nov. 15, 2013. (Activestills) The world is a very different place from when +972 Magazine began as a blog in 2010. Benjamin Netanyahu’s now record-breaking stint in power was barely a year old; there was no coronavirus pandemic or reality TV star-turned-autocrat in the White House; and social media was not the fake news factory it has become today. Yet for all that is unrecognizable about the world now, there are also many things that are all too familiar, not least in Israel-Palestine: the ongoing theft and settling of Palestinian land; a military occupation that has lasted over half a century; a choking siege on Gaza; racism against African asylum seekers and Ethiopian Israelis; and an abiding refusal by the Israeli state and large segments of its society to face head-on the legacy of the country’s founding, to name but a few. ....
In 2015, Israel pledged to bring thousands more impoverished Ethiopian Jews on aliyah – Hebrew for Jewish immigration to Israel. Since that decision, 2,250 Ethiopian Jews have been brought to Israel. And in October, the government decided to bring another 2,000 by the end of the year – a decision pushed by Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata, Israel’s first Ethiopian Cabinet member. But Ethiopian activists lament the government’s comparatively slow pace. They accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who promised to bring 7,500 immigrants to Israel before the country’s election last March, of using the issue to win the votes of the country’s 150,000 Ethiopian Jews. “Because this concerns Black Ethiopian Jews, the government doesn’t rush,” says Surafel Alamo, a spokesman for the Struggle for the Aliyah of Ethiopian Jewry. ....