Racism against Israel's Arab citizens has dramatically increased in the past year, including a 26 percent rise in anti-Arab incidents, according to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel's annual report. According to the June 2007 Democracy Index of the Israel Democracy Institute, for example, only half the public believes that Jews and Arabs must have full equal rights. Among Jewish respondents, 55 percent support the idea that the state should encourage Arab emigration from Israel and 78 percent oppose the inclusion of Arab political parties in the government. According to a Haifa University study, 74 percent of Jewish youths in Israel think that Arabs are "unclean." The ACRI says that bills introduced in the Knesset contribute to delegitimize the country's Arab citizens, such as ones that would link the right to vote and receive state allowances to military or national service. They also include bills that require ministers and MKs to swear allegiance to a Jewish state and those that set aside 13 percent of all state lands owned by the Jewish National Fund for Jews only. "Arab citizens are frequently subject to ridicule at the airports," the report states. It says that Arab citizens "are subject to 'racial profiling' that classifies them as a security threat. The government also threatens the freedom of expression of Arab journalists by brandishing the whip of economic boycott and ending the publication of government announcements in newspapers that criticize its policy." http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/932384.html Anyone surprised by this?
basically instead of Star of David , the Mizrahi are wearing qamar sign and instead of concentration camps they are persecuted to West Bank and Gaza to die of bullets, bombs, and starvation.
Perhaps this will help 1. CLASSIFICATION -check 2. SYMBOLIZATION -check 3. DEHUMANIZATION- check 4. ORGANIZATION - check 5. POLARIZATION - in progress
It's prejudice but not anti-semitism, a term which only applies to Jewish people these days. It's a minor semantic point, I know. Prejudice is basically the same thing. The analogy to concentration camps is hopelessly inapplicable.
I think we can agree that judging an individual for their ethnicity or religion is a bad thing. The Nazi camps were multi-ethnic, there were Lutherans, Africans, Germans, Poles, Chinese, Mexicans, and many others one wouldn't expect. It's not an analogy to make lightly. The intent of Israeli occupation has never been extermination.
Everything has to begin somewhere And there certainly was an intent to create a "Jewish state" without any consideration of the existing Palestinians
The intent of Nazis and the concentration camps was not extermination, it was worse, it was human body experimentation.
It does not have to. Actions speak louder than words. The intention was always there. http://www.zmag.org/shalom-meqa.htm
the Israel government funding and Israel military command logistics is not a valible proof for extermination and expulsion?
So, your interpretation of the Jews as endorsing some kind of final solution for the Palestinians is your personal invention? It's hardly worth bringing up (again) that the Nazis were in negotiation with the Arabs to implement the final solution over there, so they wouldn't have to do it in Germany. Funding of what? "Command logistics" as proof of something other than effective organization of the military? Please try to make a point.
