Policing citizens : minority policy in Israel / Guy Ben-Porat, Fany Yuval.

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

vii, 244 pages ; 24 cm.

Damas Pikada, an Ethiopian born Israeli, and Freddie Gray, an African American, shared nothing but their skin color until the spring of 2015. The police beating of Damas Pikada, an Ethiopian born Israeli soldier, caught on tape and aired on national television on June 2015, sparked the rage of young Israelis of Ethiopian descent. The young people that took to the streets and clashed with police protested against what they described as police racism. A few weeks earlier, African Americans in Baltimore took to the streets after 25 year-old Freddie Grey died during police arrest. International media and the demonstrators themselves were quick to point to the similarities of young black people protesting against what they described as police racism and brutality. In Tel-Aviv and in Jerusalem young Ethiopian protesters carried signs in English that read "Black Lives Matter", alluding to the events in the United States and the African American protest against ongoing police brutality.

English

December 12, 2019

Includes bibliographical references and index.