Following the criticism of Women’s March organizer Tamika Mallory‘s association with controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, reports resurfaced of Israel’s forced sterilization of African migrants and its plan to deport 38,000 Africans who were in the country seeking asylum. Many reports and op-ed pieces across the Internet have already established the anti-Blackness and the anti-African racism of the Israeli government.
In addition, Israel’s constant aggression against the Palestinian people is passively assisted by America and other Western nations while Palestinians are largely smeared in media depictions while Israel continues their crimes unabated.
To help put a spotlight on these atrocities and to connect them to each other, filmmaker and activist Rebecca Pierce is creating a documentary, going into the detention centers and speaking directly to the migrants that Israel views as threats to their national security. What’s happening in Israel should be familiar if you have been following along with President Klu Klux Klan’s ramping up of migrant deportations and removing the protected status of Haitian people who sought asylum in America after the earthquakes and floods ravaged their island nation.
In addition to Pierce’s film, the Jews of Color & Sephardi/Mizrahi Caucus is in partnership with the Jewish Voice for Peace to raise awareness of the issues surrounding Israeli occupation of Palestine and other social justice issues. “Our focus is on racial justice issues in the United States, Palestine, Israel, and beyond,” their website reads. “We feature news items, political analysis, essays, poetry, art, and video work that highlights the way oppressed people resist their dispossession. We pay special attention the issues affecting Palestinians and JOCSM communities, because we see a direct link between these struggles.”