workingclasshistory: On this day, 9 July 1959, the Wadi Salib riots were sparked in Israel when poli

workingclasshistory: On this day, 9 July 1959, the Wadi Salib riots were sparked in Israel when police shot and wounded Yaakov Elkarif, a Mizrahi Jewish immigrant. Originally an affluent Palestinian neighbourhood, it was largely destroyed in 1949 by the Israeli government, and the vast majority of the Arab population forced to flee. Poor Jewish people of North African and and Middle Eastern origin were placed into the derelict and overcrowded homes, and were told they would be temporary until they could be relocated. However they were not, and were left in poverty, crime and neglect by the Ashkenazi Jewish establishment which saw them as inferior. Years of simmering anger exploded on 10 July when local residents protested outside the police station, and eventually began fighting police, burning cars and looting shops. The following day, rioting broke out in other cities with significant North African populations, including Tiberias. At least one of the protest organisers, David Ben-Haroush, was subsequently imprisoned. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1757066317811844/?type=3 -- source link

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