Most of you probably haven't even seen the news about how the foreign workers in South Africa have been attacked by mobs etc. (this is the same South Africa which hosted a human rights conference that mainly slandered Israel).

Out of the whole population, of forty million, the tiny Jewish community has mobilized to help refugees. But, hey, you won't see this on CNN or BBC or any other major network, but you will see the standard shit about Israeli 'rascism'. Journalism is now a defunct profession. It is a prostitute of the monied classes and the political power scene.

From Arutz Sheva English edition: "Int'l and Local Jewish Orgs. Aid Victims of S. Africa Violence

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

(IsraelNN.com) As 56 people were killed and hundreds injured in waves of anti-foreigner violence throughout South Africa in recent weeks, local and international Jewish organizations are assisting the tens of thousands of foreign workers, mostly from Zimbabwe, forced to seek refuge from the rampaging mobs in churches, police stations and makeshift shelters. Jewish schools and youth groups initiated fundraising and other humanitarian aid campaigns.

Families fleeing the xenophobic violence, sparked by economic competition among the nation's poorest classes, have been left homeless, penniless and hungry in an extremely hostile environment. Witnessing this developing humanitarian crisis, South Africa's 80,000 Jews (out of a population of 40 million) have stepped in to provide assistance to the victims. An emergency coordinating center for the various aid efforts was set up in the Beyachad Building, the main communal facility serving Johannesburg's Jews.

Dozens of aid collection points have been set up in the synagogues of Johannesburg, where the violence started and reached peak intensity. Jewish schools and youth groups initiated fundraising and other humanitarian aid campaigns, which included the collection and round-the-clock distribution of foodstuffs among the victims of the violence.

In a statement to the press, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) appealed for strangers to be treated with ubuntu, a Bantu word meaning "humaneness towards others."

Saying that the xenophobic attacks against non-South Africans were reminiscent of anti-Semitic pogroms, SAJBD National Chairman Zev Krengel told the media, "The brutal targeting of innocent people solely because of their origins are criminal, racist acts that strike at the very heart of the tolerant, peaceful and democratic society that South Africans are striving to build."

Here is the link to the rest of the article:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126309

[Many of the Jews of South Africa emigrated to Israel over the years, before and after the revolution there. There are whole neighborhoods created by the South African Jews, who made a successful pattern of "Aliyah"(coming "up" to return to Isreal) to Israel by creating self-sufficient groups with their own doctors, nurses, lawyers etc to settle in a town together. I visited one of those neighborhoods in the 1970's and the local supermarket had signs only in English! This is one way of an immigrant generation surviving. Their children became Israelis. ]