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Friday, October 23, 2009

'They'll say I'm a racist'

Ha'aretz
...Konforti, who until last year was the Jewish Agency's representative in Ethiopia, says that American-Jewish groups wish to keep the immigration of the Falashmura going in order to generate more contributions...

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Within the government there was, in the past, criticism of the policy of bringing the Falashmura - descendants of Ethiopian Jews who converted to Christianity in recent centuries - to Israel...

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Most experts assume that most of the Falashmura are neither Jews nor the children of Jews... Full story