Ethiopians stage protest in Jerusalem against racism at Knesset and Zion Square, Tzipi Livni speaks

Ethiopians held a protest at the Knesset against racism and discrimination in Israeli society after an investigative television report revealed that over 100 Israeli families in the town of Kiryat Malakhi had signed an agreement not to rent or sell apartments to Ethiopians. They came because they want to send a message to lawmakers that they must do more to protect their rights. Their posters were in English, Amharic (a Semitic language in Ethiopia), and Hebrew. Many of them simply said "stop the discrimination." Protestors proceeded to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house and afterwards to the center of Jerusalem at Zion Square. Kadima opposition leader Tzipi Livni had this to say at the protest, "The story of these Ethiopians coming to Israel is one of the greatest stories of Zionism, and they need to know that we respect them as a society, and that the Israeli government gives them what any Israeli citizen gets. This is something that matters to standard of living [and] respect, and this is something that needs to be done today. It's not an Ethiopian problem, it's a problem of the Israeli society."