Former Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball star, Derrick Sharp, praised Israel over its treatment of people of African descent compared to the United States.
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Sharp, who is African American and an Israeli citizen, appeared in late May at an event hosted by the Israeli Consulate in New York.
"Today it is safer to be in Israel more than anywhere else, especially for a black person," Sharp said at the event according to a translated version of the comments. He was referring to the recent wave of protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd, an African American man who died after an officer put his knee on him during his arrest in Minneapolis.
"We saw what happened in Minnesota and the rest of the world with the violence," he continued. "I lived in Israel for 20 years, and I never got mugged. In the US I was."
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