What is behind the Israeli mistreatment of African migrants? – Ben White
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/world-affairs/2012/05/what-behind-israeli-mistreatment-african-migrants
Worrying about the numbers of Palestinian babies is also a concern for the so-called “liberals” or “peace camp”, who echo the logic found in this recent op-ed (titled “Keep our Israel Jewish”) that “[African migrants] should be deported, for the same reason I think we should finalize a diplomatic agreement with the Palestinians: Because I want to keep living in a Jewish state”.
This kind of ideology is inevitable in a country where racial discrimination is part and parcel of core laws and policies, and whose very establishment as a “Jewish majority” state was only possible, as Israeli historians like Ilan Pappe have pointed out, through ethnic cleansing and mass land expropriation. Indeed, the Ramle conference takes place in a town almost entirely emptied of its Palestinian population in 1948.