racism

Maureen Clare Murphy interviews Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon about his upcoming feature-length documentary, A People Without a Land, and his journey from a religious Zionist background to becoming an advocate for Palestinian rights.

After today’s bus crash which killed a number of Palestinian children, many Israelis on Facebook reacted with joy. Others expressed strong revulsion at such racism.

The Israeli “satire” show Latma TV produces an animated cartoon that represents African people as apes. Latma TV has become notorious for its racist videos, including one which spread a libel that Muslim men were responsible for a “rape epidemic” in Norway.

Badil center responds to the Israeli high court’s rejection of a challenge to the racist “citizenship law”: “This illustrates once more the Israeli self portrait as an exclusively Jewish state with a different set of rights for its Jewish and non-Jewish (mainly Palestinian) inhabitants.”

Responses to the ruling by Israel’s High Court in favour of the racist Citizenship Law highlight the country’s obsession with demography and separation - fears with a historical echo.

Israel’s High Court has rejected a legal challenge to the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law, in a 6-5 decision on Wednesday. Despite a “security” justification, the ruling has been praised in explicitly racist terms, as helping Israel maintain its ‘Jewish majority’.

High-ranking Jewish Agency official confirms that Israeli government plan for new communities in the Negev is about preventing Bedouin “incursion” and an “Arab belt” of land.

The United States is subsidizing an all-expenses paid sushi-making courses for Israeli soldiers while Congress cuts a vital nutrition program for low-income infants at home.

Anti-Arab outburst by Israeli cabinet minister Yuli Edelstein, who sits on the steering committee for the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism.