In Beersheba, Israel-Palestine, a terrorist attack on 19 October revealed the true nature of Israeli society. An innocent Eritrean migrant named Habtom Weldemicheal Zerhom, who was only in the town to renew his Israeli work visa, was lynched.
Terrorizing civilians is nothing new in Israel-Palestine, and never ends racism and exploitation. Indeed, the founding of the Israeli state involved many such terrorist attacks on unarmed Palestinian civilians by Zionist groups.
As the attack by a young Arab-Israeli unfolded that night, Zerhom and his friend Yohanns Arefayne ran from the bus stop where they waited. Upon entering a nearby building Yohanns turned to find his friend Zerhom was not with him. Zerhom had been shot by a security guard who “mistook” him as a second terrorist, and was dying in the street. As he lay bleeding, he was set upon by an Israeli mob that brutally kicked and beat his lifeless body.
In the “fog of war” terrible accidents happen, but only racism explains why a mob attacks an unarmed black man fleeing from a violent situation along with others.
Consider the following:
The Economist magazine in 2014 noted: “the unemployment rate among Israel’s Arab men is twice that of Jewish men, and rising. Arab women are three times less likely to have a job than Jewish women. Moreover, Jewish men in Israel earn roughly twice as much as their Arab counterparts.”  
A 2011 Israeli law legalized segregation within Israeli borders by allowing majority Jewish communities to exclude people it considers “socially unsuitable”.
A 2014 article in the Haaretz newspaper reported: “Arab high-schoolers from a weak socioeconomic background receive 42% less (education) ministry funding than Jewish high-schoolers from a similar background”.
The killing in Gaza and the occupied territories is often posed as Israel fighting for its survival in the face of aggression. What kind of Israeli society is surviving though?  A segregated, racist, exploitative country where workers are divided to benefit the wealthy, is not in the interest of Jewish and Arab working class people.
The fact that the Jewish population of Israel is in decline drives the rulers of Israel crazy. Into this racist brew arrives the recent influx of African migrants. Anti-African demonstrations and graffiti have become commonplace, referring to them as “monkeys” and worse. The new arrivals are “ghettoized” and rounded up, as they are in many parts of the world; and are routinely harassed and attacked.
The lynching of Habtom Weldemicheal Zerhom is nothing new in a society that thrives on racist division. Racism can only end when capitalism ends. The only hope for African, Arab, Jewish and other workers is to fight for a society that eliminates violent racial injustice. Fight for communism!