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A protester, who is an Israeli Jew of Ethiopian origin, shouts at a policeman during a demonstration against what the minority community says is police racism and brutality, after the emergence last week of a video clip that showed policemen shoving and punching a black soldier, during a protest in Tel Aviv, on May 3, 2015. (Reuters/Baz Ratner)

Ethiopian protests draw attention to racism in Israel

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 4, 2015 | Middle East

Jerusalem, Reuters—Images of Israeli police firing stun grenades are usually set in the West Bank and involve Palestinian protesters. But on Sunday the situation was quite different—riot police battling thousands of Ethiopian Jews in the center of Tel Aviv. The spark...

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An image grab taken on April 19, 2015 from a video reportedly released by the Islamic State (IS) group through Al-Furqan Media, one of the Jihadist platforms used by the militant organisation on the web, purportedly shows men described as Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya kneeling on the ground in front of masked militants before their beheading on a beach at an undisclosed location in Libya. (AFP)

ISIS video purports to show killing of Ethiopians in Libya

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 19, 2015 | Middle East

Cairo, AP—A video released by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group on Sunday appears to show the killing of two different groups of captured Ethiopian Christians by the extremist group’s Libyan affiliates. The 29-minute online video purports to show...