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The
Safe Space - Asylum in Israel
In
Association With:
The
Jewish Community Centre for London
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Over
the past year Israel has been dealing with the challenge of
asylum in a way that it has never had to before.
Hundreds
of survivors of the genocide in Darfur have been flooding
over the Egyptian-Israeli border. As a country famous for
its integration of people from all over the world and one
which has had to deal with the legacy of the Holocaust, the
situation presents a complex challenge to the state.
Ellen
Goldberg,
director of the New Israel Fund UK, Lisa Richlen,
Associate Director for Resource Development of the Migrant
Worker's Hotline in Israel and Nikki Levitan,
volunteer with Bnei Darfur in Israel, will be in
conversation with David Brown from the
Aegis Trust, discussing the differences and similarities in
the way the UK and the State of Israel are dealing with
asylum seekers from Darfur and considering whether Israel
has a unique responsibility to these people.
This
event is supported by the Pears Foundation |
