Yet, there remains the unresolved crisis of the current African refugees’ legal status, some of whom reside in a detention center. Israel is hardly the first democratic country to contend with the challenges associated with undocumented immigrants; that’s not news. The real story is why these people felt the need to flee. But none-the-less, one finds more stories focused on Israel’s challenges in dealing with the refugee influx than the events that led to this situation.Let’s put it in perspective: Sudan’s dictator is wanted by the International Criminal Court. Eritrea, ruled by the same leader since 1993, is saddled with a corrupt government that assesses an immoral “Diaspora Tax” on monies sent home from Eritrean nationals. Millions of Congolese have lost their lives as a result of that country's seemingly never-ending civil war. Yet for Israel’s critics, millions of dead and displaced Africans is not the real story; the real story is how Israel is dealing with a massive influx of refugees - some of whom, incidentally, are citizens of a nation officially at war with the Jewish state.As my friend and Zimbabwean author Masimba Musodza wrote, “The situation of African refugees and asylum seekers in Israel is being used as a stick with which to beat up the Zionist state and draw a large population that would otherwise be indifferent to events in the Middle East into active condemnation (i.e., BDS) of Israel." Displaced Africans are being exploited in order to demonize the Jewish state. That’s not just a sin against Israel, but also against the very people for whom Israel’s detractors feign concern.By Dumisani WashingtonPastor Dumisani Washington is the Diversity Outreach Coordinator for Christians United for Israel.We never have forgotten the boat with 900 Jews, the St. Louis, having left Germany in the last weeks before the Second World War… traveling from harbor to harbor, from country to country, crying out for refuge. They were refused… Therefore it was natural… to give those people a haven in the Land of Israel.