Racist Protest Outside Netanya Dorm Housing Arab Students

A group of Jewish residents of Netanya staged a racist protest outside a college dorm in the city hosting Arab students on Saturday night, accusing them of disrupting a Shabbat prayer service earlier in the day. In the evening, several hundred Jewish protesters from the neighborhood gathered outside the Netanya Academic College’s dorms, many of…

Police Crackdown on Arab Leaders Protesting Racist Budget Cuts

Mayors of Arab-Palestinian communities in Israel demonstrated outside the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem Monday to protest Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s suspension of budgetary allocations earmarked for Arab municipalities. Hadash MKs Youssef Atawne, Aida Touma-Sliman and Ayman Odeh during the demonstration in front of the Knesset on Monday, rejecting the decision of Smotrich not to transfer…

Knesset Okays ‘Sexual Terrorism’ Racist Law

The Knesset on Monday passed a far right-wing-backed law that makes “terrorist motivations” an aggravating factor in crimes of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Aggravating factors come into play during criminal sentencing and are a consideration that can push judges toward issuing a sentence closer to the legal maximum. Sponsored by a group of lawmakers led by…

Racists Chant ‘Death to Arabs’ as Settlers Rally in Jerusalem

Far-right Israeli government officials including racist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir joined tens of thousands of settlers participating in Thursday’s inflammatory “Flag March” in occupied East Jerusalem, an event at which police and demonstrators attacked Palestinians and journalists while chanting slogans including “death to Arabs” and “your village will be burned.” “Jews and Arabs against…

Hadash Slams Anti-Democratic Law to Strip Arab-Palestinians of Citizenship

The Hadash-Ta’al parliamentary faction slams a just-passed law to “strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship or residency if they were paid by the Palestinian Authority.” The payment clause is widely understood to have tailored the bill to apply only to Arab-Palestinian terrorists and to exclude Jewish terrorists from scrutiny. MK Aida Touma-Sliman against “the anti-democratic…

JNF to Move Ahead with Racist Tree Planting in Negev

The Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet LeIsrael) said Sunday it will move ahead with plans to plant trees near Nahal Yatir in the Negev, which last year was temporarily stopped due to protests among Arab-Bedouin residents and planting resumed two days later. Sa’wah demonstrations against tree planting by the JNF, January 13, 2022 (Photo: Waleed…