An inhuman night at the Camp of Shame in Tenerife Eng/Esp

Kaos En La Red By Kaos Canarias Published on Feb 21, 2021

Torrential rains, strong winds, flooded tents, and an unprecedented police presence to “quell” the protests. The migrants who remain in this Camp of Shame in Tenerife have had a night of absolute nightmare

Located in the north of the island, the camp had lived during the morning of this Saturday a concentration in which, in addition to the migrants, no less than three hundred islanders attended, outraged by the situation of the people who are there.

What they label as a shameful and deplorable location is nothing more than a new attempt to hide a problem that is affecting the life, physical, emotional and psychological integrity of people who have traveled thousands of kilometers on their journey to Europe.

A trip, which does not conclude since the Islands are a bridge, and not a border as the activists insist, towards a more promising future than that of their countries of origin.

The center, in which people of different nationalities live together, was prepared almost “in extremis” in the absence of a viable reception plan, also the result of the impediments that the Ministry of the Interior, and the forces and bodies subordinate to it, have put in ports, and airports, to avoid the transit of all these people.

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Israel is now a Jewish State by Law: so any and all Criticism is considered an Anti Semitic Crime

Op Ed: Quotes are from RT post ‘Joke About Israel‘ .. shared with thanks

”Fury as SNL joke about Israel vaccinating ‘Jewish half’ of population comes too close to calling it an ‘apartheid state’.

A woman receives a vaccination against Covid-19 in Tel Aviv.

”The comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) was accused of peddling hateful anti-Semitic tropes after joking that the half of Israel’s population already vaccinated against Covid-19 must be Jewish.

But was it true? ..”By mid-January, for example, vaccines had reached 75 percent of Jewish citizens aged over 60, but just 43 percent of Arabs in the same age category, according to the Christian Science Monitor. Among the Bedouin population, the metric was as low as 20 percent”.

Palestinians desperately await COVID-19 vaccine | Coronavirus pandemic News | Al Jazeera

Palestinians desperately await COVID-19 vaccines. Israel excludes Palestinians in occupied territories from its robust COVID-19 vaccination programme.

So .. Not 50%.. so was Michael Che wrong in his joke and was he thus an anti-Semitic criminal to be shunned and fired from his job like some other journalists?

But wait. The Israeli statistics do not include the occupied territories, which many argue have been a ‘de facto’ part of Israel for a generation.

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