rt.com
American rapper Azealia Banks has tweeted out a lengthy list of her grievances with Israeli people after she says she was racially and sexually harassed on a trip to Tel Aviv.
The artist claimed that she was treated rudely on multiple occasions due to her skin color, including being subjected to extra security checks at the airport, facing hostility in restaurants and grocery stores, as well as being “purposefully coughed on” and “stepped on” in public.
CHEAPY XO@cheapyxoSidebar: i love my fans but the people in Tel Aviv are really very rude. The folks at the hotel, in restaurants, at the grocery store treated me with such disregard I really didn’t enjoy my time here. The show was great tho
CHEAPY XO@cheapyxoHow much y’all wanna bet these racists at this airline lost my bag on purpose
CHEAPY XO@cheapyxoWhy are these people like this? I don’t understand… the amount of times I’ve been purposefully coughed on, stepped on, cut in line is tooooo much . I need a strong drink
Banks alo accused airline staff of losing her bag “on purpose” because she is black. In one tweet, Banks claimed that on her flight home, a rabbi sitting next to her on the plane asked if he could have sex with her “for money.”
Banks also described another incident where “some old Jewish lady” screamed at her on the plane. “Y’all country is nuts,” she declared in another tweet.
CHEAPY XO@cheapyxoOn my flight back I sat next to a rabbi who taught me some numerology then asked if I’d have sex with him for money .. “away from the community”.. it was kind of kinky but I politefully declined.
CHEAPY XO@cheapyxoNo some old Jewish lady on my el al flight screamed at me in front of the whole plane for trying to put my bag where hers was. It was so racist I sat in my seat and cried
The reaction to Banks’ comments on Twitter was mixed. While some echoed her experiences in Tel Aviv, others branded Banks herself a racist for tarring all Israelis with the same brush.
Seth Mandel✔@SethAMandel
I have no doubt Azealia Banks faced racism on her trip, but just want to say these particular examples (she cites more in the piece) will be familiar to literally any person who has ever been to Israel or flown on El Al http://www.newsweek.com/azealia-banks-rips-racist-israelis-says-she-will-never-ever-ever-ever-ever-go-916514?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter …
David Sheen✔@davidsheen
WHAT? Racism against a non-Jewish black woman? In Israel? A state whose leaders regularly use the N-word, associate black folks with death-causing diseases like ebola & cancer, who round them into camps & deport them back to the tortures they fled from? Who could have predicted?!
Storyteller Rebecca
✔@dorothyofisrael
You ignorant racist. Any non citizen has their bags checked before checking in. My Jewish cousins and friends complain Israelis are rude, but you go on rants blaming racism. Educate yourself on the place you go to, before you embarrass yourself. https://twitter.com/cheapyxo/status/993808863760498689 …
The singer also lamented the mad “dark voodoo vibes” she felt in Israel and vowed not to return.
I have to say “Serves you right!!!”
Why any sane person of any colour, race or creed would visit Israel is beyond me.
Did this woman not know where she was going? Can she not read? Maybe the few dollars that she was paid for ‘entertaining’ them was sufficient incentive to overcome the revulsion that any normal person would feel.
Translation, she is now ‘antisemitic’
She should’ve known better! Duhh. What a surprise! Dumb ass! Now she knows!
Her language skills are clearly deficient
Serves her right for following the shekels and not principal
Maybe it’s kind of a hidden blessing: I’m sure the AntiGentile racism she experienced there was uncomfortable at the moment, but now she KNOWS- at first hand- what real, unfettered, full-blown AntiGentilism feels like; and, thanks to social media, many other young people will be able to see the true face of AntiGentilism, through her eyes and through her first-hand experiences.
No one can pay me enough money to set one foot in the UNholy land.
It is becoming blatantly obvious that Adolph Hitler’s Momma “didn’t raise no fool”.. 🙂