Welcome to the Negro Removal/Gentrification Edition! Above, Eli Yishai, Israel's Interior Minister does his white supremacy thing - "there's a Jewish gene." He also said recently that he would use “all the tools to expel the [Black] foreigners,” claiming that “Israel belongs to the white man.” [HERE] and [HERE] The only purpose of race is to practice racism. 

From [HERE] Top UN and EU officials denounced the renewed plans for Israeli settlements [Reuters report] announced Wednesday by the Israeli Prime Minister's Office and Ministry of the Interior [official website, in Hebrew]. The plans include building more than 1,500 homes in Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. EU High Representative Catherine Ashton [official profile] in a statement [text, PDF] declared them to be illegal under international law. Ashton said the EU deplores the recent announcements and has "called on Israel to end all settlement activity, including natural growth, and to dismantle outposts erected since March 2001." UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] recognized and expressed appreciation for Israeli's release of Palestinian pre-Oslo prisoners but described the settlement plans as contrary to international law and an obstacle to peace. UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Richard Falk [Al Jazeera profile], reiterated that the settlements are unlawful [UN press release] under the Fourth Geneva Convention [text], and that financial institutions and real estate companies may be held criminally accountable for their involvement.