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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.<\/p>\n
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 \u201cpurposefully coughed on\u201d<\/em> and \u201cstepped on\u201d<\/em> in public.<\/p>\n Sidebar: 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\u2019t enjoy my time here. The show was great tho<\/p>\n \u2014 CHEAPY XO (@cheapyxo) May 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Why are these people like this? I don\u2019t understand… the amount of times I\u2019ve been purposefully coughed on, stepped on, cut in line is tooooo much . I need a strong drink<\/p>\n \u2014 CHEAPY XO (@cheapyxo) May 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Banks even accused airline staff of losing her bag \u201con purpose\u201d<\/em> 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 sex with her \u201cfor money.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Banks also described another incident where \u201csome old Jewish lady\u201d<\/em> screamed at her on the plane. \u201cY\u2019all country is nuts,\u201d<\/em> she declared in another tweet.<\/p>\n On my flight back I sat next to a rabbi who taught me some numerology then asked if I\u2019d have sex with him for money .. \u201caway from the community\u201d.. it was kind of kinky but I politefully declined.<\/p>\n \u2014 CHEAPY XO (@cheapyxo) May 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n No 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<\/p>\n \u2014 CHEAPY XO (@cheapyxo) May 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n The reaction to Banks\u2019 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.<\/p>\n 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 https:\/\/t.co\/XGVdtIJg2N<\/a>pic.twitter.com\/OvkTxQkqFQ<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) May 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n 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?! pic.twitter.com\/9UjwYgJ7HZ<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 David Sheen (@davidsheen) May 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n 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:\/\/t.co\/kwSAKnAe3M<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Storyteller Rebecca 🍀 🏀 (@dorothyofisrael) May 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n The singer also lamented the mad \u201cdark voodoo vibes\u201d<\/em> she felt in Israel and vowed not to return \u201cunless it\u2019s for some real money.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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