Eritrean/Ethiopian culture.

Saho women in Senafe Market, Eritrea

“At any habesha wedding, graduation, any kind of celebration, you will see lasagna,” says Kibrework Gebre, chef and co-owner of Sheba’s Ethiopian Kitchen in Dallas. “All habeshas I think like to make that and spaghetti—it’s like our other injera.”

For Ethiopian- and Eritrean-American people (many of whom use the ubiquitous but historically complicated term “habesha” to refer to ourselves), the Italian dish is just as much a reminder of home as it is a relic of the countries’ colonial history. Italian colonial influence began with an 1896 invasion that led to what is now Ethiopia ceding the then province of Eritrea in order to retain its independence. Italy formally colonized the province but stayed clear of Ethiopia’s capital until Mussolini’s rule, when the European nation returned to invade Ethiopia once more and occupy the country for five years. Disputes between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which are still ongoing despite many shared cultural markers (including, of course, food), are traced back to this Italy-centric betrayal. When Eritrea became a sovereign nation in the early ’90s, the schism was as much about the 19th-century colonial offering as it was about the border itself.

Israel is offering $9,000 to regular citizens to help capture African migrants so they can be deported.

The UNRA estimates that there are 27,000 Eritreans and 7,700 Sudanese in Israel, with the vast majority of them fleeing fled war, ethnic and religious persecution, and conscription. However, Israeli officials have called them “infiltrators” and a “cancer” who constitute a threat to Israel’s ‘social fabric identity’. As such, only 10 Eritreans and 1 Sudanese have been recognized as refugees in the country according to UNHCR.

Please let that sink in, only 10 out of over 27,000 Eritrean’s have been granted refugee status. That’s less than 0.0004%.

Over 52% of Israeli nationals agreed with racist statements Miri Regev, a member of the current right-wing Israeli ruling party made, calling African migrants “like a cancer in our bodies”:

“We will do everything to ensure the Sudanese don’t live here. We won’t allow this threat to grow like a cancer in our bodies.”

“The infiltrators are a cancer in our society. All the leftists who filed High Court appeals [against deportations] should be ashamed of themselves.”

“We will not let them thwart our attempt to protect ourselves, our children, our women and our work places. We will continue to protest every day until the last of the Sudanese infiltrators returns to his country.”

“We won’t allow the aliens to spread like cancer.“

This Queen of immense slayage and finesse is my grandmother. 

Israel is offering $9,000 to citizens to help capture African migrants so they can be deported.

The UNRA estimates that there are 27,000 Eritreans and 7,700 Sudanese in Israel, with the vast majority of them fleeing war, ethnic and religious persecution, and conscription. However, Israeli officials have called them “infiltrators” and a “cancer” who constitute a threat to Israel’s ‘social fabric identity’. As such, only 10 Eritreans and 1 Sudanese have been recognized as refugees in the country according to UNHCR.

Please let that sink in, only 10 out of over 27,000 Eritrean’s have been granted refugee status. That’s less than 0.0004%.

Over 52% of Israeli nationals agreed with racist statements Miri Regev, a member of the current right-wing Israeli ruling party made, calling African migrants “like a cancer in our bodies”:

“We will do everything to ensure the Sudanese don’t live here. We won’t allow this threat to grow like a cancer in our bodies.”

“The infiltrators are a cancer in our society. All the leftists who filed High Court appeals [against deportations] should be ashamed of themselves.”

“We will not let them thwart our attempt to protect ourselves, our children, our women and our work places. We will continue to protest every day until the last of the Sudanese infiltrators returns to his country.”

“We won’t allow the aliens to spread like cancer.“

According to the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), Over 52% of Israelis agree to the statements made above by the current Minister of Culture and Sport of Israel’s ruling right-wing party. The report also showed that over 30% of Israelis condone and approve of anti-migrant violence.

Libay ♥️