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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

[Israel]: Hotline for Migrant Workers: Legislation Targeting Asylum Seekers in Israel in 2012

08/2012. In the past eight months, the Israeli government and Knesset have taken several measures designed to decrease the number of African asylum seekers in Israel. These measures reflect the false claims that the African asylum seekers are not refugees running for their lives and freedom, but rather ‘work infiltrators’, as repeatedly stated by Israeli government officials. Among these measures are four new legislation initiatives and an old bill from 2006, which the NGOs, together with the Israeli public, managed to block until it passed on January 10, 2012.