Finally, Israelis attacked a member of the Asian-Jewish "Bani Minashe" sect, as he is Chinese and may be infected with the "emerging corona". The assault opened the file of marginalization and discrimination suffered by the sect, whose number has reached 5,000, until now, He responded, and the community leader, Yuknan Faltwal, said, following the incident, that they intended to form a political party to defend the people of the sect, according to Israeli newspapers.
"He was walking to visit his friend, so he was surprised by people who shouted at Israel," he said. "Shalem, who has lived in Tiberias for two years, after he immigrated to Israel from Manipur in India, with his wife who died two years ago," His face: Corona, Chinese, Chinese, ”and then beat him, and tried to stop them by shouting:“ I am a Jew ”more than once, but they continued to beat him until he was seriously injured, and he was transferred to the“ Bureh ”hospital, and there he underwent simple surgery after having He has been exposed to lung damage and other injuries.
The Shalem incident caused an uproar in Israeli society, and the "Chaville" organization, concerned with Jewish societies abroad and encouraging Jews to immigrate to Israel, considered the incident and the negative atmosphere directed against the "Bani Menashe" sect as a blow to its efforts.
The community leader, Yuknan Valtual, told the Times of Israel that they were "terrified by these incidents, and there is a growing wave of racism and discrimination against them, and what has happened is a warning bell for the community that requires action and defense of them."
Shalem added: “The problem is that we are scattered in very small groups throughout Israel (occupied Palestine), in Sderot, Kiryat Shmona, Rako, and Ma'alot. We also face the barrier of language, housing, and employment. In addition to practical difficulties, there is a barrier of adapting to different cultures, in what results About this misunderstanding. ”
It is mentioned that the issue of “the Jews of Bani Menashe” dates back to the story of the “Ten Tribes,” which Israel claims to displace after the domination of the Assyrians in 722 BC. - Various cultures in the world to Jewish roots, such as "Falasha" in Ethiopia, "Igbo" in Uganda, "Bani Israel" and "Bani Ibrahim" in India. Also, these Israeli efforts to attribute to the "ten tribes" included the "Bataan" groups. And Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs funded research related to the total The last two figs to prove their Judaism, according to the French newspaper “Le Figaro” on January 15, 2010.
The incident of the assault on Shalem, and the racist attacks on the sect, renewed the memories of the racist tendencies suffered by its children at the beginning of their recruitment to Israel in 2003, according to Israeli voices, where they were accommodated in the Gush Katif settlement on the border with Gaza, what the people of Bani Menashei considered “Throwing into the flames of the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation, and they were also subjected to a simultaneous political attack, where the then Israeli Minister of the Interior, Avraham Poraz, was arrested for the period of their emigration, indicating that only the“ third world population is interested in immigration and moving to Israel. ”
“Bani Minashe” admits that there is no written historical record documenting its history, and that it remained dependent on oral accounts until a few periods, and while the Israeli “Council of Rabbis” said in 2005 that “Beni Menashe” is the “seeds of Israel”, a rabbinic expression that indicates that The Judaism of the person is not only deduced from religious law, but rather the reliability of the ethnic hierarchy, and the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" published, at the time, a report in which it said that the Chairman of the Council, Shalom Amir, did not obtain a document confirming this.
"Bani Minashe" admits that there is no written historical record documenting its history, and that it remained dependent on oral accounts until a few periods.