Israel Cancelled its Plan to Deport Asylum Seekers. Here's How You Can Help The Community Today.
On Tuesday, the Israeli government called off its contentious plan to deport thousands of African asylum seekers to other African countries.
This was not so much a considered policy choice as the consequence of the erosion of all other options. Earlier in the month, Prime Minister Netanyahu capsized a U.N.-brokered deal to resettle half of the asylum seeker population in Israel, and the other half in Western countries. At the same time, previous deals with other African countries to take in the deportees also collapsed. After the Israeli Supreme Court demanded that the government either provide proof that it could resettle the population safely elsewhere or release them from detention, Netanyahu’s government had no choice but to cancel its deportation plan and extend the visas of those it was meant to target.