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| Israel's Arab face more racism in Gaza aftermath |
| 2009-01-23 |
| In the Middle East's "only democracy" discrimination is a way of life for a sizeable portion of its population. Israel's Arab sector has faced inequity since the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948 but recently racism has been on the rise, say Arab and Palestinian residents. Israel's Jewish community increasingly supports the discrimination and even deportation of Arabs, say Palestinian human rights activists in Israel. "Anywhere you go in Israel you will not find Arabs represented or integrated. And this holds for all aspects of life, from basic representation on the street to that of public institutions," Jafar Farah, director of the Haifa-based Mossawa Advocacy Center, told AlArabiya.net. Israel's more than one million Arab citizens make up 18 percent of the population. While 90 percent of the Arab community lives in the entirely Arab towns and villages of Galilee, Triangle and Negev, some 10 percent live in mixed Arab-Jewish cities like Tel Aviv, Jaffa, and Acre. Despite having a distinct national, ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic character, Arab Israelis are treated as second-class citizens. "Discrimination is regularly apparent in state resource allocations in every field, and Palestinian Arabs continue to be excluded from the centers of power and underrepresented in decision-making public institutions, and in the general public sphere," Yousef Jabareen, law lecturer at Haifa University and director of the Nazareth-based Arab Center for Law and Policy told AlArabiya.net |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 All Israeli Arabs should be free to move to the Islamic paradise that is Gaza, right? |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2009-01-23 18:31 |
| #12 Deny Israel's existence and call for war against the Jews and the Arabs wonder why their political party is banned from elections and members eyed warily? Chutzpah must really be an Arab word. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-01-23 12:00 |
| #11 In the Middle East's "only democracy" Funny though a bit OT, in an entry copying and pasting a wires blurb about arab parties & MP being barred from israeli election, noted (everything's relative) rightwing blogger Daoudal used the same "only democracy" title... no background, nothing, past the not-so-subtle subtext. And, he does speak for the mainstream french rightwing (what's left of it), since IIRC pépé lepen did a public statement comdemning Israel for all the usual sins of brutality, disproportionality, arrogance,... but, anyway, this just shows again the decay of french intellectual & political life, there is no actual right past random individuals, as an organized or semi-organized movement, just a bitter mixed, fringe of french statist, sovereignty fetichists, unacknowledged socialists, people mired in a "last stand" ideology that only feeds on its doomed end... all united by their rejection of the "Empire", of capitalism, often of Christianity (the fundie fringe Catholics are dhimmis in training who prefer the pure & rugged muslims to the decadent West), of juices, of course, of classical liberalism,... in their collective minds, they've already integrated the notion that they lost, and are now part of the Third world, this is why they more (putin, who's their real hero, chavez, who's a bit behind) or less (ahmadinejad) roots for their strongmen. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-01-23 11:13 |
| #10 "Discrimination is regularly apparent in state resource allocations in every field, and Palestinian Arabs continue to be excluded from the centers of power and underrepresented in decision-making public institutions, and in the general public sphere," Yousef Jabareen, law lecturer at Haifa University and director of the Nazareth-based Arab Center for Law and Policy told AlArabiya.net So, if this is all true, how come you aren't cleaning toilets or driving a cab, perfesser? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-23 10:28 |
| #9 "Arab" is not a race. It's a linguistic group. |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-01-23 10:25 |
| #8 A "crying baby" graphic would work too, but I don't see one of them in the Photos selection either. |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2009-01-23 09:51 |
| #7 Dang, we used to have a pic of my valued femtoviolin that we could use, but I think Fred did some housekeeping. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-01-23 09:44 |
| #6 Tiny VIOLIN, that is :-) |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2009-01-23 09:08 |
| #5 Say, Fred...is there a "tiny vioiln" graphic you can add to the story? |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2009-01-23 09:07 |
| #4 Too slowly for my taste, but surely, Israelis beginning to understand that Ben Gurion made a BIG mistake in 1948. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-01-23 06:59 |
| #3 I discriminate against people who try to kill me too. It's something that I'm trying to get past. |
| Posted by: Formerly Dan 2009-01-23 06:42 |
| #2 For those (many) "individuals" who did things like cheer every time Israel was hit by a Scud during GW I would stop doing things like that and start getting upset, it would help my sympathy factor. Until then, they deserve every bit and more. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-01-23 02:04 |
| #1 Coming from Al Arabiya (Saudi it is rich. BTW, Bedouins (discriminated in Arab countries) don't face racism, Druze (who aren't even admitted in Saudi Arabia) don't face racism, Christian Arabs (who aren't even admitted in Saudi Arabia) don't face racism and, if Israeli Arabs weren't in bed with terrorists they wouldn't face racism |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-01-23 01:37 |