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Ethiopian-’Israeli’ Soldiers to Refuse Reserve Duty
Local Editor
Soldiers from several Zionist army elite units announced disobedience over police chief's controversial comments on anti-Ethiopian bias.
The latest chapter in an ongoing dispute between police and the Ethiopian community over indicting police of racism took a new turn Wednesday when combat reserve soldiers from the community declared that they would not turn up for duty.
"We're sick of the state's demand that we continue to honor a contract according to which we are citizens with obligations but not rights," the soldiers wrote to the army's chief of staff, Gadi Eisenkot, according to a Channel 10 report.
Signatories to the letter include fighters from the Golani, Givati and paratroop brigades as well as elite units of the occupation army such as Maglan, which specializes in top-secret operations behind enemy lines.
"We will be expressing our discomfort through organized actions of disobedience, the first of which will be our refusal to report for reserve duty," they wrote.
The move comes in the wake of a speech made by "Israel" Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich on Tuesday in which he said that it was "natural" for law-enforcement officers to be more suspicious of recent immigrants, including Ethiopian-"Israelis", than of others.
Responding to a question about persistent accusations of police brutality and racial discrimination against Ethiopian-"Israelis", Alsheich told a gathering of the "Israel" Bar Association in Tel Aviv that "studies the world over, without exception, have shown that immigrants are more involved in crime than others, and this should not come as a surprise."
"When a police officer comes across a suspicious person [who is either young or from an immigrant background, or both], his brain naturally suspects him more than if [the suspect] were someone else," he continued, emphasizing that anti-Ethiopian bias among officers "is natural" due to statistics linking immigrant communities to higher crime rates."
Ethiopian-"Israelis" have long accused the police of brutality and abuse against members of their community. Last year, the community staged a series of mass demonstrations across the country, triggered by video footage showing a seemingly unprovoked police assault on an Ethiopian-"Israeli" soldier last April.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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