o present their view and their counterarguments. It is
clear from what was discussed during our immigration hearings that Israel
has almost nothing in common with democracy. A permission to leave the
country, an indication of nationality and the country of origin in
special enternal passports, a supremacy of the religious laws over the
civil code, a right for a military committee to decide who is a single
son - and who's not, an imprisonment for months without an official
accusation: All these and hundreds of other Israeli laws are suitable
may be for a mental hospital - but not for a "democratic society". An
opinion expressed by the document that we should not escape to
Canada but should seek a help in Israel also has nothing what to do
with the reality. We did everything to defend ourselves in Israel, and G.
as a journalist and the human righta activist did everything that was
possible to help us.He presented tenth of receipts of his complains to
various ministries and organizations including the Ministry of Police,
the Ministry of internal affairs and police, which were unanswered, to
the immigration committee. The sad truth is that the committee just
ignores everything. And recognize only the ungrounded Israel's
declarations. And the immigration officer - a person who sends faxes to
Israeli embassy, obtains documents there;in other words who's in
tight connection with Israelis - is the only person who has a decidable
voice in the refugees from Israel cases... Isn't that sad?!
We can not go back to Israel under no condition, because
1) my husband and my son may be arrested by the militaries and
imprisoned. I expressed my grounded fears about that during the hearings
- and I can widen them now. 2) How can we go back to Israel if the
immigration officer informed the Israelis about our refugee claim? In
Israel where the ideology and the patriotic education play a very
important role we will be considered as "traitors" and will be persecuted
for
that, too. 3) Persecutions against us in Israel were so strong that if
we would be send back to Israel we will die. 4) After receiving so called
"21-st military profile" my son has no future in Israel: Because in
Israel people who are given that "profile" can not study, and nobody will
employ my son with such a "profile". 5) After all the persecutions we
faced in Israel we feel fear - and we are afraid to go back; our fear, our
psychological tremor towards Israel are so strong that there is
impossible for us to live in Israel any more. In the name of God, in the
name
of Justice - HELP US!!!
CONCLUSIONS: our 2 immigration hearings (as well as hearings in G.
case) have nothing in common with any legal procedure. They rather
remine of an incuisition court or a secret political tribunal. This
tribunal was arranged to punish us for flieding Israel and G. - for his
ideological views - not to decide whether or not our (ours and G.
family's) claim for a refugee status is justified. It was used for the
political
purposes: To "show" how just any information about human rights
violations in Israel which not concerns Arabs can be calmed down - and
to express a huge pro-Israel propaganda. They made clear that they
treat our escape from Israel as a mutiny and will never admit the very
fact that we are in Canada, in Quebec, not in Israel. Their words,
their behavior - everything - was meant to show us that we could only
deserve to be treated according to the Canadian rules after getting a
refugee status. Before that we don't deserve to be treated by
Canadian rules. That's why we were treated according to the rules and
norms of Israel!!! It hard to find a more violative ritual of humiliations
over the juridical norms then that... It is absolutely clear for the
judges - as well as for ourselves - that we were severely persecuted in
Israel,
that all members of our family were severely abused and that the
definite casualties were inflicted to our health, including our son. It is
also
absolutely clear to the judges that the deportation back to Israel is a
death penalty for all members of our family. The tricky thing is that the
immigration board expressed almost no doubt about persecutions we
survived in Israel or even recognized the harshness of these
persecutions. But the point is that they claim ... we are guilty in the
persecutions ourselves - and therefore they don't worry about our souls
and our lives... So, this is not even a tribunal, but a brutal act of a
vengeance. sp; *
The court's negative decision (resume) was
made and expressed in an inappropriate manner without any clear
connection to our real case. The decision was clearly made by the
immigration officer, not by the judges. She is an Israeli patriot and
she hates the Russian-speaking people. Everything what is expressed in
the decision document is basicly a lie. The text of that document is
politically motivated and juridically illegal. This is just the next stage
of
injustice.
SUPPLEMENTS (if required):
1.A LIST OF TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH OR FRENCH ARTICLES.
2.DOCUMENTS.
3.TAPES FROM THE IMMIGRATION HEARINGS.
4.OTHER MATHERIAL PROOFS.
5.OTHER DOCUMENTS.
6.DETAILED COMMENTARY TO THE HEARINGS.
7.COURT'S RESUME (DECISION).
8.DETAILED COMMENTARY TO THE COURT'S RESUME (DENIAL OF OUR CLAIM).
SINSERELY YOURS, LUDMILA METELNITSKY
telephone number: (514) 845-8216
address: Ludmila Metelnitsky, 3440 Durocher Str., Apt.1602, Montreal,
Quebec, H2X 2E2, CANADA
AN ADJUSTMENT
We came to Israel in 1990; as many other people we had a hope for a
better life. As the most of Russian-speaking people we were
"welcomed" by a malicious anger, the state unti-Russian propaganda and
the most severe discrimination. Our son was 15 when we came to
Israel. Each of us (including our son) was assaulted, abused, beaten,
discriminated against. The ignorance of what is going on in Israel with
the Russian-speaking people can not make what our friends and we
suffered from in Israel unreal. Batteries, assaults, abuses were real and
happened to us in real life. If my son could come to school and could
hear a discussion about the last article in a Hebrew newspaper, in which
"Russians" were called sons of a bitch, prostitutes, fools and thieves:
was it "unreal"? And the computer games in Hebrew accompanied by
songs with words like "Russians, go home": They were as real as the
real life. And the social climate in Israel is so horrible that if a child
is
beaten at school "because he's Russian" - he is forced to feel guilty
himself as if he's guilty in not being an Israeli but being a Russian.
Any person with conciseness (a journalist, immigration official, a
human right organization official) could take a translator from Hebrew, go
to a
library or to an archive and find articles in Hebrew newspapers which
have highly aggressive untie-Russian contest. And what about
thousands of articles in Russian newspapers published in Israel about
what can be called almost genocide against "Russians"?
When they began to call my son to a draft board (because Israel has a
compulsory military service) he asked an alternative military service
each time they called him: because he was afraid of hostility towards
"Russians" within the Israeli army and also because of the rule that a
single son can not be taken into the front-line units against his will.
They gave him no decision, but kept ordering him to come to the draft point
again and again.
One day a new routine order to come to the draft point arrived. My son
was ordered to come one day - but the order has been sent one day
later then the date of his appearance. A couple of other days past
before he got the order. But as soon as he got it he immediately went to the
draft board.
When he came they have arrested him incriminating him a disobedience to
the order to come. No excuse, no explanation was admitted.
Everything happened so fast that there is no doubt: they were prepared.
So, they have submitted this order for him later then the date he was
called to intentionally. He was accused in a refusal to come to the
draft board (they ignored that he arrived voluntarily) and in avoiding the
military service. They have treated him like if he already was a
soldier and flied from a military unit. He was also given a soldier's number
as
if he was a soldier when in reality he never entered the army and never
wearied a military uniform. When he admitted that he's going to
become mentally ill because of the military prison they refused to give
him a Russian-speaking psychologist, and the Hebrew- speaking
psychologist couldn't speak with our son, but wrote a report based on
ungrounded insinuations. When later a Russian-speaking psychologist
appeared he translated him that report but told that it is impossible
now to dispute what the Israeli wrote.
When our son was in the military prison severe humiliations were
committed over him. All the violations of the rules and of the moral norms
in
his case were too innumerable to mention them. During his imprisonment
our son was transformed from a healthy person to a mentally ill boy.
When he was released from the military prison (he was in the prison
more then 3 months; no charges were posed against him, no court took
place) the military medical committee recognized him as a mentally ill
person. When he was just imprisoned he was recognized as a fully
healthy person suitable to the military service. He received some
treatment here, in Canada, and the immigration board knows it. We did
everything we could to release our son from the military prison. But
the civil lawyers refused to take his case as soon as they heard about the
conflict with the army. Some of them assaulted us refusing to take the
case. We demanded a military lawyer but the military commandature in
Jaffo denied us a military lawyer. We turned to all the possible places
like Israel Bar Association,human rights organizations, Sharansky's
Zionist Forum, Israel and foreign media, state officials: nobody
couldn't or didn't want to help us. Then we decided to send a letter to
Amnesty
International. A friend of us - a dissident and a journalist Lev G. -
has contacted Amnesty International and later submitted several faxes to
them. When the authorities realized that we complained to Amnesty
International they released our son from the military prison.
We couldn't live in Israel any more after what happened to us and to
our son there, and also because we were afraid that our son can be
arrested again if we will stay in Israel. The only reasonable solution
for us was to escape. And the only way to do it was to become refugee
claimants. We flied to Montreal in November 1994.
I don't want describe the whole farce of so called "immigration
hearings". There were 2 of them.
Any positive decision couldn't be taken in our case since the
immigration officer assigned to our case is a Jew, probably, an Israeli, and
she
hates the Russian-speaking people. We prove in our later appeal that it
was her who took the decision in our case.
Several months ago when our son was on a party, one gay called him out
and took him to a car.
That gay was drunk. When driving the car he damaged several parked
vehicles. Later we discovered that he took another person's car.
Despite the clear evidences that not my son drove the car police
accused him. We also have an audiotape where that other boy recognizes
that he (not our son) was guilty. There is a recorded telephone
conversation on this tape. Just everything was ignored during the first
criminal
hearing in that case. Of cause it looks as if my son accompanied that
gay - it's enough to accuse him. But you must take into consideration that
he is psychologically, mentally ill after Israeli military prison. A
healthy person could refuse to hear what that gay told him but my son is a
sick
person!
I believe that this was MOSSAD's provocation, and I believe that the
politicians are still behind everything what is going on around us.
If somebody can do something to help us to avoid deportation to Israel,
HELP US!!!
DO SOMETHING!!!
Sincerely yours, Ludmila Metelnitsky
Please, call us to (514)-845-8216. Montreal.
Ludmila Metelnitsky
December 1996 - March 1997
Montreal
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FROM FAMILY GUNIN
Folder of Documents about abuse and injustice, partial decisions and
inhuman actions by Canadian Immigration on request of the State of Israel
against a peaceful and talented family
Order of documents:
#1 (this document): To the Federal Court,
# 2: Post Determination Appeal ,
#3: Translator's Sabotage,
#4: Appeal (Alert) to Amnesty International,
#5: IRB's Conclusive Decision,
#6: List of Documents,
#7: BRIEF DESCRIPTION
#8: From Alla GUNIN to the Federal Court,
#9: Appeal to UN Refugee Tribunal,
#10: Humanitarian Appeal (Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds),
#11: To QUEBEC's Children Rights Committee (in French),
#12: From Elisabeth GUNIN - Humanitarian Cases ,
#13: Events in March-August, 1999, in Hebrew, French, English, Russian
and Polish
#14: Declaration
#14-a: The WITNESS (Autobiographical essay)
#15: The Enforcement of Immigration's persecutions against Gunins (list
of 1998-1999 events)
#16: Grigory SVIRSKY: Appeal to Prime Minister of Canada
#17: Another short description of GUNINS case
#18: New Persecutions - April - May, 2000
#17: Leo's Old Mother Is Under Persecutions
#18: Manipulation of medical data and personnel by Immigration
#19 ALARMING SOS: Usage of falsified medical data against GUNINS - last
update December 2000
After been denied the refugee status
and the rights to appeal to the Federal
court, after years of humuliations and
abuse of justice, family Gunin received a
positive decision to their humanitarian
reasons appeal. In spite of granting them
the landed immigrant status Immigration
is trying now to freeze their file to avoid
giving them the permanent residents
papers and continues persecutions.To
punish Lev Gunin they startet to
humiliate over his old mother (check the
link)
Complete update of GUNINS tragedy is
here
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For The Federal Court, Second-Stage Appeal Procedure
FROM Lev GUNIN (FILE Number 2948-6524/ 95/76/23/18
ID: 3082-7125/7174/7220/7231/7317/ )
FOR THE FEDERAL COURT, AFFIDAVIT February 24, 1998
LIST OF ITEMS
INTRODUCTION: An explanation why some important (from my point of view)
details never appeared in my refugee claim.
(This document).
1. Why the refugee board's decision has formed an additional
risk of return for my family, and me.
(This document).
2. How my lawyer's translator torpedoed my chances to get a positive
decision.
(Document #3).
4. My observations regarding the hearings and the negative decision
(Document # 3).
(Group of Documents #4).
5. My observations regarding the text of the negative decision
("Conclusive Decision").
(Document # 5).
6. My final statement.
(This document, paragraph 1.7.).
In any decision in our case I ask you to take into consideration the
next documents, which I have submitted on November
the 7-th, 1997, for post-determination revue.
7. Adjustment to my refugee claim as an essential explanation of that
risk.
(Document # 2).
8. List of supporting documents.
(Document # 6).
9. Supplements.
(Group of Documents # 7).
10.List of Organizations.
(Document AC)
INTRODUCTION
Introduction.1. There are some important, from my point of view,
details, which never appeared in my refugee claim.
My advisers were strongly opposed to the next passages.
a) Anything that could throw a shadow to the state's of Israel good
image.
b) Statements, which would mention Israeli army.
c) Any claims, which could include politics or politically motivated
persecutions.
Introduction.2. They said (may be, indirectly) that the influence of
Israeli lobby is very strong everywhere. They said
that by mentioning about the violations of Russian speaking people'
human rights in Israel, discrimination of them in
Israeli army, or politics behind persecutions, from which we suffered
in Israel, we could make the commissioners just
furious. They could accuse us in exaggerations (a word, which became
very popular when an excuse must be
found for an inhuman action) and refuse to accept us as refugees.
Introduction.3. These advisors (including my wife) partly convinced me,
partly sounded ultimate. Now I see even
better then before, that they were right, and I must completely
recognize their marvelous competition. Now I could
understand that my lawyer's, maitre's Le Brune, recommendations were
very wise. In the same time my lawyer's
translator inserted 2 statements into my refugee claim, which I never
authorized her to insert and which were in
complete contradiction to my lawyer's recommendations. The 1-st is a
statement that I was a well-known dissident in
ex-USSR. The 2-nd is a declarative passage about slavery. In the
Document #3 you could read more about this.
Introduction.4. Suspending some information from entering my refugee
claim I did it because I was afraid that the IRB members - instead of
defining my chances to be a conventional refugee - would define my "guilt".
Introduction.5. But during our refugee hearings (because of my lawyer's
translator's distortions and because of
commissioners' aggressive behavior) I was forced to mention such
things, which I decided not to mention before.
When it became clear that the commissioners were extremely partial
towards us, and that we had no what to loose,
all three above-mentioned "self-restrictions" became not important any
more.
Introduction.6. In the same time events, which I was afraid to mention
in my refugee claim and my lawyer did not
recommend to mention, were accessible for the Immigration Board as
others (besides my main refugee claim)
documents in my file. I handed them over to my lawyer, and he adjusted
them to my file before or between the
hearings. It means that the information, which I enter now in Document
# 2, is not new, and was in my immigration
file before. In the same time, it was up to my lawyer to share this
information or not. Recently I took all documents,
which were in my file, away from my lawyer, including letters to
Jerusalem Post (see Document # 5 in
Supplements), and others. My lawyer's notes were written on top of
them, what you can see on one of the copies. It
means that I have rights to mention them now because by time of our
refugee hearings they were accessible for the
commissioners because were part of my immigration file.
1
1.1. In this document, I am going to explain, prove and show, why and
how all my family members, and I, would face
risk to life, extreme sanctions and inhuman treatment not just because
of the danger for us in general, but also
because of the refugee board members' actions.
Please, do not make a final decision in my case without studying all
supporting documents, because they content the
main argumentation about this risk.
1.2. This risk of return to Israel has been increased during our
residency in Canada because of the next actions of
IRB members.
A). IRB, assigned to our file, contacted Israel and informed Israelis
about our refugee claim in Canada (see Group of
documents # 4, Document # 3, p.p. 1,2,3; Document # 1, page 1,
paragraph # 3, point 5), also p.2, point
11), also p.3, point 8); and also Supplements, Documents # 6, 7). That
would increase the possibility of
vengeance to us from Israeli authorities.
B). Even if a definite information - that the embassy of Israel in
Canada could already know about the content of our
immigration file - is wrong, sooner or later they would know it. Trying
to find defense and justice, I have submitted a
short description of our immigration hearings and of the final IRB'
negative decision to hundreds of human rights
organizations and to thousands of other destinations. I made them
available on Internet for the same purposes. So,
Israelis know them, too, anyway.
C). In the same time the IRB commissioners and the immigration officer
instead of defining whether or not we could
face persecutions in Israel (as we claimed), concentrated on accusing
us as if it was a criminal court. They
characterized me as an exaggerator and defamator, dangerous (they do
not use this word but it is the only
characteristic of what they meant) to the state of Israel* (see
commentaries in the end of this part). Their insinuations that I turned to
innumerous places in Israel, including human rights organizations, MP's,
police, Amnesty International (see the list of them in Supplements, Document
# 8; see also copies of documentary proof of my appeals to
various organizations in Supplements, Documents # 9,10,11,12) not
because I looked for protection but to
"spread slender about Israel"** (see comments 2 at the end of that
part), seem absurd and outraged only in Canada, but not in Israel! Even here
(in Canada) they were used as an excuse to deny our refugee claim, and the
negative decision
was logically presented as a "punishment" for "slander" and
"exaggerations" (see Document #5, p. 1; 2 last
paragraphs on the bottom of the page, p.2, paragraphs 1, 2). Israeli
authorities would consider Montreal's
"immigration court's" (IRB) decision to define us as enemies of Israel
and dangerous exaggerators, as a leading
order (not just an excuse) to persecute us. As a Jew and, probably, an
Israeli, the immigration officer, Mrs. Malka,
expressed her almost open hatred and partiality towards my personality
in such tones and colors, which could
perfectly correspond to the manners and mentality of Israelis. Their
most sensitive feelings would be touched by her
words, and that would make my destiny even more miserable if I would be
removed to Israel (please, read the
whole Group of Documents #4, and Document # 5). She also expressed open
threats, including a threat to
open a criminal procedure against me... (see Group of Documents # 4).
D). By their attitude, the commissioners during the hearings and in the
negative decision somehow separated me
from other members of my family. They almost openly let know that my
family suffering and refused the status only
because of my political views. That could provoke Israelis to separate
me from my family or even take away our
children (I know several precedents). Rejection of my refugee claim
because of my attitude towards the state of Israel
(in other words, my political views) is the main topic of the negative
decision. That would encourage Israelis to do just
anything to me (if Canadian court did what it did, why should they
wait?): to imprison me, place to a mental hospital, or kill. I am absolutely
sure that within days or weeks I could be imprisoned in Israel and,
probably, killed in custody not just because of objective factors, but also
because of what the commissioners' did.
E). The political situation in Israel has been changed, too, since we
left, to the worse. I present documents (see
Supplements, Document # 19), which shows that the present extremist
government is not ready to maintain just
any tolerance. This is why the commissioners' actions would lead to
more severe consequences if we would be
removed back to Israel. By the time of the hearings these changes
already took place, and the commissioners had to
know pretty good about that...
F). Policemen in Israel could still remember my wife's, mother's, and
my own complains; I also turned to the Ministry
of Police and Ministry of Internal Affairs. Now, - when in their brief
description of my refugee claim members of IRB
severely distorted my claim (see Document #5, page 2, Comments), - how
could we turn for defense in Israel any
more? The IRB members' action made us completely insecure and
unprotected in Israel (if removed there). [Since
the context of their negative decision is already known to Israeli
authorities].
* The negative decision mentioned the paragraph about slavery in my
refugee claim (which Mrs. Broder inserted) in ignorance of: 1) my words that
the translator distorted my statement, 2) my explanation that this paragraph
correspond to a specific tendency in Israel called "kablanut", 3) two
newspaper articles, which described "kablanut" and openly denounced it as
slavery. (See these articles in Supplements, Doc. #81). An affidavit about
the event, on which "my" statement about slavery was based, was given to me
in Israel by Lev Ginsburg (see Supplements, Doc.82). We became victims of
extreme generalization, when submitted by partial Israelis "affidavits" were
respected more then even human life - and thousands of affidavits, articles
and other documents provided by another side were totally ignored.
Documents, which demonstrated non-competence and partiality and were
provided by the members of Israeli government
(Mr. A. Charanski), its institutions (Israeli embassy) or committed to
Israeli government fundraisers (Dr. Livny) were presented as only reliable
and "independent"!
** After expressed by IRB members' insinuations that I turned to
various organizations and institutions in Israel not for protection but to
"spread slander" I could have no protection in Israel any more if removed
there. IRB's insinuation is a verdict for non-protection in the state of
Israel! How could we go back there now?!
CHILDREN.
During our refugee hearings, the commissioners had chances to observe
our children.
They could not ignore that the children are deeply suppressed and still
not in norm.
Because of abuses and insults, both Ina and Marta had nervous tics and
hyper kineses. It stopped only about one
year ago. We possess a videocassette as a proof that during the period
of refugee hearings the children still had
impulsive face muscles' contractions and other visual neurological
disorders.
We also had a psychological evaluation at this point concerning Ina.
From observing our children, the commissioners could understand that
because the children are shy and timid they
could be abused or even killed by Israeli children. That would bring
additional danger to their lives. Such children as
ours have always much more chances to be abused or even killed in the
countries with the dominated "east temper".
Because in spite of the time, which passed since we came from Israel to
Canada, both Ina and Marta visually reacted
to the discussion about their life in Israel with horror and fear, the
commissioners had a chance to see how deep the
psychological trauma affected the children and also how easy such
children could become targets for abuses in
Israel.
The description of multiple assaults of our children were also ignored
by the commissioners. The IBR members also
probably knew that by the time of our hearings Israeli authorities
could take children away from Christian, atheist,
mixed, or non-traditional Jewish families...
In the text of their negative decision the IRB members seriously
distorted some paragraphs of our refugee claim,
which described multiple abuses against our children.
Through all mentioned above (active or passive) actions, the IRB
members had shown themselves as people with no
mercy, open to cruelty and ready to commit abuses themselves. If they
had no attention or mercy even towards the
children, who then they are and how could such people make a decision
in our case?!
WIFE.
The commissioners had also a chance to observe my wife.
My wife Alla (look over our refugee claim) suffered very much from
multiple abuses, batteries, insults, and
discrimination in Israel. That all caused already serious damage to her
mental and physical health. During first two
years in Canada, she suffered from the consequences of that damage. (A
surgery was done to her in relation with
what happened to her in Israel; she often cute her hands, stroke
herself not on purpose because of her mental
disorder; once she spent several days in an emergency; by then a danger
has threaten her life).
A psychologist found her mental disorders serious enough. He told us
that they came in result of her previous life
period, what means in result of our life in Israel. (See her medical
reports: Supplements, Documents #13, 14,
15, 16, 17, 18).
Only about a year and a half ago her mental and physical wounds started
to heal, and she came almost completely
back to norm. But even now more time is needed and the danger of
deportation back to Israel has to be liquidated for
complete improvement of her health.
During our refugee hearings, the IBR members had to see that she was
paralyzed by fear and horror so much that
hardly could speak. They could see that she was near an emotional
collapse, and they had to understand that it must
be connected with what happened to us in Israel.
By observing us, by listening to my wife's, and my, replies IBR members
could easy understand that we belong to a
rare type of people, for whom any suppression of their own pride is
unbearable. We could become refugee
claimants and agreed for all the degrading procedures only because of a
threat to our lives, only! We care about our
children lives, and we know that they need us. Otherwise, we would
never let a person like Mrs. Judith Malka
humiliating over us! It was absolutely clear that something really
serious (like a threat to our lives) had to happen to
force people like us to become refugee claimants.
To ignore their observations the IRB members had not to care about our
fate at all. Their indifference demonstrated
that they came with prepared in advance negative attitude towards all
Russian speaking refugees from Israel in
general. Nothing could change this attitude, no matter who is sitting
in front of them... It was visually clear that such a
partial attitude could not be affected by their emotions, by
compassion; or they rather had no emotions, no
compassion at all...
Please, read my wife's statement in Group of Documents # 4, Document #
2.
MY MOTHER.
Everything that corresponds to my children and my wife corresponds to
my mother as well. If the commissioners had
no mercy towards the children and towards the woman, who suffered so
much, then may be they expressed
compassion towards an old mother who might loose her single son (she
told them that her younger son died) if we
would be removed to Israel? No, they had no shame before an old mother
to use their unfair methods and
demonstrate no sign of a mercy!
ME
I am the very person, whom Israelis persecuted long before then I was
taken to Israel (see Document #2). I was
taken to Israel by force, against my will (see Document #2, page 4,
paragraphs 2.16., 2.17., and the NOTE).
When I was in Israel, Israeli State radio (RADIO RECA) called me in one
of its auditions (3 December 1993, around
noon) "a racist." The radio correspondent Daniela Linor gave an
opposite meaning to one of my articles (see
Supplements, Document # 27). In that article ("Israeli (Jewish)
Apartheid") I denounced the discriminatory practice
of Israeli authorities against some of the ethnic minorities, including
Buchara origins. If not my good relations with
some of the Buchara people and my attempts to help some of them to
fight discrimination, I could be in a serious
danger. The community of Buchara is one of the most sensitive and
united communities in Israel. This event was
already discussed during my immigration hearings, but the IRB committee
did no comments. One newspaper
("Vremja", 5 September 1994, page 18), which published my article "Why
Israel is against the Victory Day?", in its
comment called the public to destroy all my works and presented me as
traitor and enemy. It was very well known
that this newspaper was by then close to the right opposition led by
Mr. Netanyagu, and expressed its opinions (see
the original and its translation in Supplements, Document #28). IRB
members did no comments to that, too.
The same newspaper ("Vremja", 1 August 1994, Supplements, Document #
29) placed an interview with me,
distorting my words and trying to discredit me. The interviewer, Mr.
Mark Kotlarsky, was my friend, and I trusted him.
But he composed that interview in a humiliating manner, portraying me
as a traitor, pathologically tiresome and stupid
person. Pretending to be half serious - half joking he told about me
things, which he never discussed with me and
which could turn the whole anger of Israeli ultra-patriots against me.
He had no personal reasons for that provocation
and it could be explained only by the involvement of the authorities.
(This interview and circumstances, which
surrounded it, were discussed during my immigration hearings). During
one of our immigration hearings Mrs.
J. Malka, the immigration officer, used non-conventional methods to
distort the reason, why I presented this article,
and did not let me speak. In the same time, she used some information,
which I shared with Mr. Mark Kotlarsky only.
In 1993, I was attacked in Tel-Aviv after my conversation with "MAARIV"
and "Yidiot Achronot" correspondent,
Avraham Pelet. (See my refugee claim). Mrs. J. Malka's attitude towards
this event and her "evaluation" of it was the
same: not to let me speak! Multiple attempts by the governmental
structures to confront me with anger of the most
sensitive and dangerous in anger social and ethnic groups could lead to
my death and were equal to assassination
attempts. Even here, in Montreal, Israelis threaten me through people,
whom I knew in Israel (listen to the tapes of
my last immigration hearing), or via E-mails, or by telephone calls
(see Document #30 of Supplements). I also
presented a letter from Israel to the Immigration Board. This letter
also informed about such threats (see my file).
These threats are not jokes! To send such a person (who was considered
by such a sensitive - towards ideological
opponent - state as Israel as an enemy) backmeans to sign him (me) a
death penalty. Know that by sending me back
to Israel you would kill me! I am writing this just to remind you what
you might be responsible for.
But Mrs. Malka several times threatened me directly during the
hearings, one time even suggested that she will start a
legal procedure against me in civil (or - may be in criminal?) court.
But if even a politically motivated threat to my life could not exist,
even then risk to my life could always exist in Israel
because a person like me could never accommodate in strictly regulated
- ideologically, religiously, ethnically,
socially, politically, and military - society as Israeli. And it had to
be evidently clear to the board! It clearly evaluated
from the refugee hearing procedures! I had innumerous incidents in
Israel, which were already described in my
refugee claim. It had to be evidently clear to the IRB members (from
the background of our conversation) that I could
add a description of others less or more serious incidents and
conflicts, which used to happen to me in Israel
practically every day. They were caused by my inability to use to
growing demands of ultra-orthodox, by my entire
and psychological incompatibility with the Israeli society, by my
softness, which provoked harsh by nature Israelis to
attack (abuse) me. Often conflicts erupted because I did not understand
the tough subordination within the Israeli
society or could not use to it. In my refugee claim I described only
some events, caused by fully developed incidents.
But there were thousands others, which merely did not developed
completely, and if would develop themselves,
could lead to severe consequences, including my death. Since we left
Israel political and social situation there
became even tenser. It is more possible now that I would not only face
the same incidents and conflicts (if removed to
Israel), as in 1991-94, but more tense, which could soon lead to my
death.
Risk to my life would immediately erupt in Israel not only because of
above-mentioned reasons. The commissioners
could see from my claim and all documents (if they wanted to see) that
in Israel the state of my health in 1991-94
became so bad that it could make me an invalid or cause my death. I
possesed multiple medical documents, which
could illustrate that. In Israel I got a hyper-tonic disease (which - I
believe - came as a result of a battery; I gave
explanations and necessary proofs already during my immigration
hearings), I had multiple infections, flues, terrible
headaches, heart disorders, tics... In 1994 I had such a heart
disorder, which was suspected as a minor heart attack. I
suffered severe heart pains and other hard disorders during 2 weeks,
and I was sick much longer. In
mentioned-above interview Mr. M. Kotliarski wrote about my infarct
(heart attack). (See this article in Supplements;
document # 29). I already presented medical documents to the IRB. I
supply you the new copies (Supplements,
documents #35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40) in terms if they somehow disappeared
from my file by the time of the hearings
or were not presented to the board.
Danger to my life could be even wider because during our life in Israel
there were multiple conflicts with
doctors-Israelis, and they refused to serve members of my family, and
me, several times. We were also expelled from
medical center "Ramat Verber" in spite of the money, which we paid for
membership. Since we came to Canada my
health improved. But it could not stand stresses of eventual removal
and life in a thrusted on me society.
My life would be under an extreme danger in Israel also because my past
life there has already shown that no
institution, no organization would defend me. I would have no legal or
other defense. IBR members could express
insinuations that I used to turn to many institution and organizations
not for protection and help but to "spread
slander," but they did not want to comment (in their negative decision)
the fact of refusals or inability of all these
institutions and organizations to help me. In reality this fact is one
of the most essential. If I was (and would be)
completely unprotected in Israel - then how would I go back there?
The Immigration Board members also did not let me speak about my
confrontation with Mossad. In reality this
confrontatio