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Thursday, April 03, 2003 Nisan 1, 5763
State apologizes for calling Ethiopians bad learners
By Baruch Kra, Haaretz Correspondent
The State Attorney's office apologized Wednesday to the Ethiopian community for describing Ethiopians as having "inferior study capabilities, which do not improve even after years of living in Israel."
The description, published Wednesday in Yedioth Aharonoth, appeared in the state's defense sheet to the Kfar Sava Magistrate's Court in response to a damages suit presented by a first grade boy of Ethiopian descent and his family.
Lior Bugaleh, who was not accepted to a Hadera school due to his Ethiopian origin, accused the Education Ministry of practicing a racist policy.
The state's defense cited Tel Aviv University research about pupils' study achievements, indicating "the standard of pupils of Ethiopian descent in Hebrew and arithmetic is the lowest in all class levels and does not improve with years. These findings also apply to second-generation pupils of parents from Ethiopia... this study's findings confirmed that, indeed, there is a problem in the Ethiopian community, which mostly belongs to a low socio-economic status."
The defense sheet triggered a protest by researchers and lecturers of all the universities, who wrote to Attorney General Eliyakim Rubinstein: "The state's defense sheet reeks of racism and prejudice... we believe it reflects racist concepts of the worst and most shocking kind... concepts reminiscent of theories prevalent in the pre-World War II era that assumed there are inferior and superior races, according to their IQ."
The lecturers demanded that the State Attorney apologize in public to the parents and pupils of Ethiopian descent in Israel and withdraw the charge sheet.
The Justice Ministry issued a statement Wednesday that said, "A mishap occurred in the Central District Attorney's defense sheet to the Kfar Sava Magistrate's Court... and we wish to apologize to the plaintiffs and the entire Ethiopian community. The District Attorney will soon present a corrected defense."
Justice Ministry sources said that, following a petition to the High Court of Justice regarding the quotas for receiving pupils of Ethiopian origin to schools, Rubinstein examined the issue and ruled there is no place for such quotas. Consequently, the Education Ministry decided to cancel the quota policy.
haaretzdaily.com
Ethipioan pseudo-Jews should emulate Israeli Russkies... Russkies are excellent learners --LOL:
'Over-zealous immigration' blamed for rise in anti-Semitism
by Inigo Gilmore
Sunday Telegraph
November 17, 2002
Russian immigrants who were invited to settle in Israel despite having only distant Jewish roots are being blamed for a startling outbreak of anti- Semitism in the country.
A growing number of incidents, including verbal and physical abuse, swastikas daubed on walls, and the desecration of a Jewish cemetery, have led to calls for a rethink of Israel's "over-zealous" immigration policy.
Last night, Yuli Edelstein, an Israeli government minister responsible for settling immigrants, became the first senior government figure to call openly for the immigration system to be changed. He told The Telegraph that he was concerned about the rise in anti-Semitism and its apparent connection with the "over-zealous" policies of the Jewish Agency, which is responsible for bringing immigrants to Israel.
He said he had met heads of the agency to press for more stringent measures to filter out "undesirable" immigrants who have no intention of adopting Jewish customs.
A survey of recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union found that 70 per cent did not qualify as "Jewish" according to religious law.
The problem has arisen because Israel's "law of return" grants anyone with just one Jewish grandparent the right to settle in Israel and to bring their families. Critics say that aggressive recruitment campaigns by the Jewish Agency in former Soviet republics have tempted many people to move to Israel despite only remote Jewish connections.
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