Racism is awfully painful, showing solidarity and togetherness is the painkiller for it.

the mayor of Petah Tikvah has been tried several acts of racism and discriminatory against the small and quiet African asylum seeker community who lives in the city, just to make our life miserable as the israeli government policy against us. unfriendly attempts like cutting water and electric supply to the apartments where we live, calling to the residence to report African asylum seeker who appears to wonder in the street, and the most recent unimaginable attempt to block our children from registering to the kindergarten in the municipality.

The good thing is none of them worked for him. the mayor earned disgrace and shame out of it every time.

when he announces of blocking the asylum seeker's children from registration to the kindergarten, Assaf, aid organization for asylum seeker and refugees in israel, the great lawyer Haran Reichman of the clinic for law and education policy at Haifa university, the parents and the Israeli activists came together to stop the horrible act of discrimination against children's right to education. they stood all the way together till the court hearing. protesting and voicing together and they succeed. the court decided in favor of the people of fair justice to everyone seeker. every child regardless of his race or status is entitled to an education and that is the municipality will do after the court decision.

what do we learn from that?

racism can be painful and many of us suffer from it in our daily life. showing solidarity and bringing our efforts together, no matter what we can do to stop it is the painkiller for it. the sad reality is racism will never go away from us. it will appear every day by changing its structure and its face. but if we stand and bring our effort together to stop it, it will never arise upon us and we can beat it every day.

our great thanks, to the Israeli society who stood up always against the injustice policy that meant to destroy us and well done to the parents who really inspired us by standing altogether to their own struggle. you showed them that you are not the people who stay silent on their children's matter and how responsible you are for your children. Solomon Gebreyohans | community interpreter and cultural broker | 20-July-19