Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
18 October
NO JAIL FOR MOB LYNCHING OF BLACK ISRAELI
On this day 2018, an Israeli security guard shot Eritrean asylum seeker Haftan Zarhum near where a Palestinian had killed an Israeli soldier. The guard shot Zarhum as he frantically crawled on the floor to seek safety. David Muial joined a mob that beat the Eritrean to death. Security camera footage shows uniformed soldiers, police and prison officers in the lynch mob. Muial received a sentence of 100 hours community service for the killing and an order to pay Zarhum’s family $550 compensation.
لم يعاقب مرتكبي جريمة القتل الوحشية لمواطن اسرائيلي اسود
18 أكتوبر
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2018، أطلق حارس أمن إسرائيلي النار على طالب لجوء إريتري حفطان زرهوم بالقرب من المكان الذي قتل فيه فلسطيني جنديًا إسرائيليًا. أطلق الحارس النار على زرهوم وهو يزحف بشكل محموم على الأرض بحثًا عن الأمان. انضم ديفيد مويال إلى العصابة التي ضربت الرجل الإريتيري حتى الموت. تظهر لقطات الكاميرا الأمنية الجنود النظاميين والشرطة وضباط السجون في عصابة القتل الغوغائية. تلقى مويال حكما ب 100 ساعة خدمة مجتمع لجريمة القتل وأمر بدفع تعويض لعائلة زرهوم 550 دولار.
One lynching tells the story of Israel’s racial pyramid
The acquittal of the two Israelis on 20th July, 2020 in the lynching of an Eritrean asylum seeker reveals just how deeply white supremacism is entrenched in Israel's political establishment.Now think about Yehuda Biadga, Solomon Tekah, Shirel Habura, Yacoub Abu al-Qi’an, Kheir Hamdan, Sami Al-Ja’ar, and so many other Israeli citizens who were gunned down by police, and you’ll see exactly how the pyramid of race functions in Israel. If you are a brown-skinned man, you are already in a high-risk group. Jews who are killed by men in uniform might receive more media attention, but that does not mean they will receive justice. Non-Jews killed by men in uniform should be grateful not to be declared “terrorists” after their death. Jewish-Israeli civilians who kill Jewish-Israeli civilians may pay a price for their crime. And non-Jewish civilians who are killed by Jewish-Israeli civilians? Their families will receive 2,000 shekels after they have buried their loved ones in the ground.
African refugees get no reprieve from Israel’s racist rage
David Sheen
Interior minister Aryeh Deri