{"id":291384,"date":"2016-09-01T17:06:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T21:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=291384"},"modified":"2021-01-09T17:11:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T22:11:09","slug":"suspecting-ethiopian-israelis-arabs-of-crime-is-natural-israeli-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/suspecting-ethiopian-israelis-arabs-of-crime-is-natural-israeli-police-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspecting Ethiopian Israelis & Arabs of crime is \u2018natural\u2019 \u2013 Israeli police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Israel racist police chief says, \u201cimmigrants are invariably more involved in crime than others\u201d\u2026 forgetting that 80% of \u201cwhite\u201d Israelis are immigrants from Eastern Europe\u2026 who are in fact not real Jews but come from Khazar; while the black Jews from Ethiopia and the Palestinians are\u2026 Proving that Israel is not only a colonial state but also a racist white supremacist one.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Israel\u2019s police chief has said it is \u201cnatural\u201d for his officers to treat Arabs and Israelis of Ethiopian descent as potential criminals, adding that his controversial claim is backed up by studies on crime rates among immigrants \u201cthe world over.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a police officer comes across a suspicious person, his brain suspects him more than if [the suspect] were someone else, it\u2019s natural,\u201d\u00a0Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich\u00a0told\u00a0a gathering of the Israel Bar Association on Tuesday, according to the Times of Israel.<\/p>\n

He added that\u00a0\u201cover-policing is natural\u201d\u00a0as well when it comes to Ethiopians, responding to a question about persistent accusations of police brutality and racial discrimination against Ethiopian Jews.<\/p>\n

The police chief indicated he also meant Arab Israelis and East Jerusalem Palestinians who come into contact with Israeli officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudies the world over, without exception, have shown that immigrants are invariably more involved in crime than others, and this should not come as a surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israeli police have long been accused of brutality and use of excessive force against Ethiopian Jews.<\/p>\n

In February, member of the Knesset Karin Elharar said that\u00a0\u201cpolice violence against Israelis of Ethiopian descent has become a major problem, and it cannot be treated with a Band-Aid,\u201d\u00a0as cited by the parliament\u2019s official website.<\/p>\n

The statement was made after the Justice Ministry\u2019s Police Investigation Unit, an external body in charge of investigating police misconduct, decided not to take action against two officers who used a stun gun to subdue Ethiopian-Israeli Yosef Salamsa in April 2014.<\/p>\n

Following the incident, Salamsa underwent psychological treatment and committed suicide by jumping off a cliff three months later.<\/p>\n

In April last year, the Israeli-Ethiopian community staged a series of massive rallies across the country after a seemingly unprovoked police assault on an Ethiopian-Israeli soldier was caught on camera.<\/p>\n

Gadi Yibarkan, one of the leading activists behind the 2015 rallies, said on Tuesday that the police chief was\u00a0\u201cnot particularly smart for openly saying that Israel was a racist country,\u201d\u00a0according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not migrant workers, we are Jews who returned to their country after some 2,500 years in exile,\u201d\u00a0he stressed, adding that Alsheich\u2019s statement explains why\u00a0\u201cpolice officers deal violently with black people and Arabs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alsheich\u2019s remarks also provoked a wave of indignation among both Jewish and Arab-Israeli politicians.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only is the commissioner failing to deal with police violence toward the Ethiopian community, he is encouraging it,\u201d\u00a0Merav Michaeli, an MP from the Zionist Union, said. She added that\u00a0\u201cyoung Ethiopian immigrants are not \u2018migrants,\u2019 they are Israeli in every way, and these type of comments are anything but \u2018natural,\u2019\u201d\u00a0as reported by the Times of Israel.<\/p>\n

Michal Rozin, an MP from Meretz, called for the establishment of mandatory racism workshops for all police officers in the view of the situation.<\/p>\n

Ayman Odeh, the head of the Joint Arab List faction, denounced Alsheich\u2019s comments as\u00a0\u201cracist and discriminatory\u201d\u00a0and stressed that the job of the commissioner is\u00a0\u201cto serve and provide security for all Israeli citizens, not just white Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan expressed support for Alsheich and said that the commissioner did not actually justify\u00a0\u201cover-policing.\u201d\u201cHe [Alsheich] said, bravely, that there was a problem and that the police was addressing it,\u201d\u00a0Erdan said, adding that in his comments the commissioner\u00a0\u201csimply described the thought-process of police officers that has in the past led them to react wrongly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, public dissatisfaction with police continues to rise, reaching 84 percent in recent weeks, according to Israel\u2019s Channel 2 News. According to a June poll cited by the newspaper, 84 percent of Israelis view the police \u201cas corrupt, with officials unfit for various reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier, Alsheich announced measures aimed at boosting public confidence in law enforcement, including body cameras for police officers.<\/p>\n

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RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Israel racist police chief says, \u201cimmigrants are invariably more involved in crime than others\u201d\u2026 forgetting that 80% of \u201cwhite\u201d Israelis are immigrants from Eastern Europe\u2026 who are in fact not real Jews but come from Khazar; while the black Jews from Ethiopia and the Palestinians are\u2026 Proving that Israel is not only a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":291385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}