ERITREAN migrants staged a mock slave auction outside the Israeli Knesset today in protest against government plans to forcibly deport African refugees and asylum-seekers to Uganda and Rwanda. 

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Around 10 men took part in the protest covered in chains with their mouths tapped up as another man shouted through a megaphone: “Get your slaves. Slaves for half price.”

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The Knesset passed a bill in December allowing the government to  imprison indefinitely or deport asylum-seekers to an unspecified country in Africa. 

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Israel plans to begin deporting 40,000 African asylum-seekers starting in April. 

Yesterday a collection of Israeli rabbis inspired by Anne Frank’s story called on Israelis to hide African asylum-seekers facing deportation from the Jewish state.