Ok, that was encouraging to see. Of course not all Jews are like that. Probably a minority. Generalizing is bad and one can quickly become guilty of making judgements solely based on emotions.
One should distinguish between the actions of a few politicians/influential people/governments and a whole nation and its people.
Having said that then the individuals in that video posted by Jihad are leading Israeli Jewish politicians. And representatives of whole political parties. That makes it much more problematic in my opinion.
In Yemen for example - the most poor country in the Middle East (economically but in terms of history/culture/past civilizations it is one of the very richest not only in the Near East but also the world) the country and Yemenis have welcomed close to 1 million Africans from the Horn of Africa (Somalians, Ethiopians, Eritreans, Djiboutians). Excluding the many Iraqis who went to Yemen after 2003. Estimates of over 100.000 in 2004. I doubt Israel with their current politicians and their ideology would allow something similar to happen. Judging from the video posted by Jihad that states that only 60.000 Black Africans live in Israel then the reactions shown are outrageous.
Did it ever occur to those individuals that the Ethiopian Jews inside Israel make up 120.000 people? Do they not count as Black Africans? Or is it because they are Jewish and then it is all fine and good? I did not know that color and ancestry could change depending on your religion.
The level of tolerance in Israel should also be higher naturally since it is basically a nation composed of immigrants made a few years after the Holocaust. Tolerance should be the leading aspect of Israeli society aside from them being Jews. Judging from their actions against the Palestinian Arabs then it seems that they have taken the behavior and customs of their former oppressors as Surenas wrote and incorporated that to their own policies.
50% are Mizrahi Jews and Sephardic Jews and the remaining 50% are Askhenazi Jews. Among the Jewish population that makes up 75-80% of the Israeli population. Rest are Palestinian Muslim Arabs (mainly). A smaller group of the Palestinians are Christians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel#Ethnic_and_religious_groups
All from different countries, backgrounds, Judaic traditions, sects etc. Despite that there have for a long time been tensions between Mizrahi and Askhenazi Jews - the two biggest groups of Jews and complains here and there.
It is not the best track record for a country that claims to be a democracy and proudly compares itself with Western Europe and elsewhere.
No, and Middle Eastern people have not a particularly good track record with Black people either which I am personally not proud of. But at least we have put that behind us. For example most of the football team of Saudi Arabia are Afro-Arabs and they are an integrated part of our society and make up 10% of our population. Still there is racism here and there, stereotypes, social differences etc. but it is slowly changing and I am happy about that.
It was sad to see those poor Ethiopians/Sudanese being attacked.