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Sunday’s Stories

Mollie Gerver — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:55:20 +0000

MK Miri Regev declared in the beginning of the Passover holiday that all who entered the country without prior authorization, including Sudanese and Eritreans, should prepare to “go home”. The word “home” is used quite a lot by Israeli politicians who promote the deportation of asylum seekers, ignoring their asylum claims. Last summer, the migration authorities [...]

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CEO in Jewish Agency: Don’t Volunteer in Africa

Mollie Gerver — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:16:49 +0000

Dr. Misha Galperin, the president and CEO of international development for The Jewish Agency for Israel, is worried about securing Jewish continuity. One solution is to encourage Jewish service learning programs in Israel, where participants spend an extended amount of time volunteering and learning in Israel. He cites a report by Repair the World and [...]

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Self-deportation: Sudan style

Mollie Gerver — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:07:08 +0000

On Christmas Eve, a day after policemen had rounded up asylum seekers in Tel Aviv’s Levinsky Park during their holiday celebrations, Prime Minister Netanyahu convened a discussion on “progress in the process of repatriating illegal work infiltrators to their countries of origin.” Two days ago, following the arrest of an Eritrean asylum seeker for the rape of an [...]

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African Refugees Resettled from Israel to the United States

Mollie Gerver — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:28:08 +0000

I recently spoke with two refugees who were resettled to the United States after being denied refugee status in Israel. Both had spent significant amounts of time in prison in Israel, one learning completely fluent Hebrew over the course of a five year prison sentence. The US government recognized them as refugees largely because of [...]

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Don’t Mention Jews/Africans: How to Campaign for Refugees

Mollie Gerver — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:31:51 +0000

In the 1940s American Jews campaigning for the resettlement of Displaced Persons (DPs) in Europe who had survived the holocaust avoided mentioning Jews. This was because the American public was relatively intolerant in 1945, as outlined in Loescher and Scanlan’s book Calculated Kindness: Refugees and America’s Half Open Door. Rather than campaign for Jews, the American Jewish [...]

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Deportation, Corporal Punishment, and Asylum

Mollie Gerver — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:20:37 +0000

On 20 June the organizations ASSAF, the Hotline for Migrant Workers and the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, petitioned against the reuniting of children with their abusive parents in order for them to be deported. The details can be found here. They advocated for a case-by-case evaluation of South Sudanese children who were separated by [...]

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Denying the Right of Appeal for Asylum Seekers

Mollie Gerver — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:08:18 +0000

A new Knesset bill denies the right of asylum seekers to appeal the decision of border authorities.The Ministry of Interior claims that all can re-apply for refugee status after they have been deported. Yet, the more flawed the Refugee Status Determination (RSD) process in Israel is, the more individuals will be persecuted after return, and the [...]

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Making Remittances Illegal May Encourage Migration to Israel

Mollie Gerver — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:16:25 +0000

A recent draft law outlaws money remittances from migrants in Israel back to families in their countries of origin. The goal of the law is to reduce “the economic incentive” of migration to Israel, according to the Justice Ministry. However, the law may actually create an incentive for migrants to stay in Israel and to [...]

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