“Not only have we not progressed, but the country has become an enemy of its people, everywhere citizens are harassed. There are more police, and now it’s not only the lower class who are suffering, but the middle class as well.”-Charlie-Sahlom Biton, former Israeli Member of Parliament and co-founder of Israeli Black Panthers movement

Recently Israeli citizens protested their own government, in record numbers, because of the growing divide between the haves and have nots.  Those affected the worst are Black Jews!

“Forty years have passed since we rose up to protest against the lack of justice. Since then, year after year, I’ve been waiting for the next generation to rise up.”-Charlie-Sahlom Biton

Charlie-Sahlom Biton, a former Israeli MP, says the situation in Israel has only gotten worse.  Black Jews, and Lower Class Jews have always been treated bad by the Israeli government, but now Biton says Middle Class Jews are being targeted as well.

Biton is helping to lead the resurgence of the Israeli Black Panthers, a group originally formed in the early 1970s.

The latest Israeli injustice against Black Jews, is the closing down of the Ner Etzion public school for Ethiopian immigrants.  To make matters worse, many of the private and public schools in the Petah Tikva area are refusing to take in the children of the Black Jews.

The area 6.5 miles east of Tel Aviv is nick named the Ethiopian ghetto.