History does not repeat itself in identical form – but it speaks. And when it speaks, it warns.

For Israel, that warning is deeply rooted in the memory of The Holocaust. It is a reminder not only of unimaginable loss, but of what happens when the world hesitates in the face of growing danger.

Today, that lesson is being tested again—this time in the fate of Amhara asylum seekers from Ethiopia.

The debate over deportation is often framed as administrative or political. But at its core, it is something far more serious: a question of whether individuals may be returned to a place where their identity puts them at risk.

Since 1974, Ethiopia has undergone profound political upheaval, beginning with the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie and the rise of the Oromuma communist Derg. In the decades that followed, the country’s political structure shifted toward ethnic-based federalism, reshaping identity into a central axis of power and conflict. Within this system, the Amhara people—historically........

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