Ethiopian Jews, some of whom passed through Sudan as refugees on their own
journeys to Israel in the early 1980s, expressed horror and regret Monday as
attacks – both physical and verbal – against African migrants from Sudan and
Eritrea have been on the rise in recent days.
“When I think how people are treating the Sudanese and of how they treated us when we passed through as refugees, I am ashamed,” Ziva Mekonen-Degu, executive director of the Israel Association of Ethiopian Jews, told The Jerusalem Post.
“When we arrived there, they brought us water and helped us find work so that we could make enough money to live. [They were] difficult times,” said Mekonen-Degu.
“It should not just be the Ethiopian Jews who remember what happened to us in Sudan nearly 30 years ago – this whole country was created because we were all once refugees. We should all be thinking about what happened to those Jews who did not find shelter in other countries,” she added. Read more
“When I think how people are treating the Sudanese and of how they treated us when we passed through as refugees, I am ashamed,” Ziva Mekonen-Degu, executive director of the Israel Association of Ethiopian Jews, told The Jerusalem Post.
“When we arrived there, they brought us water and helped us find work so that we could make enough money to live. [They were] difficult times,” said Mekonen-Degu.
“It should not just be the Ethiopian Jews who remember what happened to us in Sudan nearly 30 years ago – this whole country was created because we were all once refugees. We should all be thinking about what happened to those Jews who did not find shelter in other countries,” she added. Read more
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