Jewish columnist says that Israel should curb the African invasion

Hagai Segal on African immigrants in Israel:

If you still refuse to get excited over African immigration to Israel, here is a figure that may prompt an emotional turnaround: The rate of infiltration through our southern border has equaled the rate of Jewish immigration from the Diaspora.

About 1,200 people on average breach our southern border each month. Multiply this by 12 and you’ll get 14,400 infiltrators a year – a number that is frighteningly similar to the scope of Aliyah to Israel last year: 14,567. That is, for each new immigrant who lands in Ben-Gurion Airport we have an infiltrator who comes into the Negev.

In the media they are referred to as “Sudanese refugees,” a nickname that evokes Jews mercy, yet almost all of them are not refugees of any kind. They are African citizens who seek an Israeli cure for their personal employment problems. Most of them happen to arrive from Eritrea and from Ghana.

If we stop them on the border and send them back to where they came from, we will not be causing them irreversible damage. Yet if we hesitate about stopping them, we shall cause ourselves irreversible damage. We may end up dividing Jerusalem in order to preserve our Jewish character, yet the next day discover an African majority in Eilat, Arad, and southern Tel Aviv.

Funny how the Jews are not so liberal on the issue of immigration when it comes to Israel.