{"id":1484,"date":"2015-05-19T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2015-05-19T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T09:50:11","slug":"hundreds-of-ethiopian-jews-protest-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/05\/19\/hundreds-of-ethiopian-jews-protest-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews protest in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Israeli Ethiopian Jews and activists held a rally on Monday evening in Tel Aviv to protest against alleged racism, an AFP journalist said.<\/p>\n<p>The march passed off without incident under the watch of dozens of security officers, a police spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators chanted slogans demanding &#8220;social justice&#8221; and &#8220;the arrest of racist police&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian Jews in Israel have staged several rallies against alleged police brutality and racism in recent weeks, and some gatherings have turned violent as they clashed with security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has some 135,500 Jewish Israelis of Ethiopian descent, including more than 50,000 born inside the country.<\/p>\n<p>The community has been at the centre of storms over alleged institutionalised racism in recent years.<br \/>\nAFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Israeli Ethiopian Jews and activists held a rally on Monday evening in Tel Aviv to protest against alleged racism, an AFP journalist said. The march passed off without incident under the watch of dozens of security officers, a police spokesman said. Demonstrators chanted slogans demanding &#8220;social justice&#8221; and &#8220;the arrest of racist police&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}