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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Israeli  cities were swept up this week with racist demonstrations calling for  the deportation of migrant workers and asylum seekers and the non-rental  or sale of land and flats to Palestinians and “foreigners”.</span></span></p>
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<p></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In  Tel Aviv, hundreds of protesters took to the streets last night (21  December), demanding the deportation of asylum seekers and migrant  workers, and petitioning local landlords to refrain from renting flats  to “infiltrators”.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And  hundreds gathered at a demonstration in the coastal city of Bat Yam  (south of Tel Aviv) on Monday evening (20 December) to protest the  presence of Palestinian citizens of Israel in the city, and to warn  against the “defiling” of Jewish girls by Palestinian men. </span></span></p>
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<p>Flyers announcing the demonstration noted that “ Arabs are taking over  Bat Yam, buying and renting apartments from Jews and taking Jewish  girls, whom they defile.”</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This  is a harsh and fateful war, maybe the toughest since the State was  founded,&#8221; claimed Rabbi Achiad Ettinger, one of the leaders of the  demonstration.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">These protests come just weeks after 50 state-employed rabbis issued a <a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/topics/israeli-society/3076-israelis-protest-racist-rabbinical-decree-not-to-rent-sell-property-to-non-jews-">letter</a> prohibiting Jews from renting or selling property to non-Jews, and just  one day after Israel’s Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi called on  legislators to pass a law making it easier to deport those lacking  documents.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Israel  recently began constructing a wall along its border with Egypt in an  attempt to keep asylum seekers out. “The fence will be a better  obstacle, but will not completely prevent infiltration into Israel,”  Ashkenazi noted.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Public  expressions of racist positions have become more acceptable since the  February 2007 elections in Israel, after which the current government –  the most right-wing in Israel’s history – took power. Proposals to <a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/topics/israeli-society/1961-together-against-those-who-deny-the-naqba-">prohibit public commemorations of the Palestinian Naqba</a>, require <a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/blogs/michael-warschawski/2913-amendment-to-israels-citizenship-law-lesson-in-civics-">loyalty oaths</a> to Israel as a Jewish state and <a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/topics/jerusalem/2947-proposed-bill-to-ban-jerusalemites-from-guiding-tours-in-jerusalem-">prohibit Palestinian Jerusalemites from serving as tour guides</a>,  amongst others, have mushroomed under Netanyahu’s government.</span></span></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/topics/israeli-society/3115-israelis-hold-racist-demonstrations-against-migrant-workers-palestinians-">Israelis Hold Racist Demonstrations against Migrant Workers, Palestinians</a>.</p>
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