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A still from Dotan Moreno's film "Shuk."
To my Ashkenazi girlfriend, and the one who is yet to come
It’s fairly common these days to hear people in Israel claim that there can’t be racism because everyone is marrying everyone else, regardless of ethnicity. Except that’s not really true. By Adi Sadaka Part 1: A certain kind of truth When I began studying film five years ago, one of the first movies they showed…
By Cafe Gibraltar October 28, 2014
Palestinian and Jewish men speak at protest against settler violence in Jaffa. December 5, 2008 (Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)
One or two states, Israelis and Palestinians are bound together
Whether the conflict here is resolved through one, two, three or ten states, Israel will still never be homogenous. Ethnic homogeneity is a nasty and dangerous sham. As the referendum over the future of Scotland approaches, poll numbers for the “YES” (pro-independence) have suddenly spiked. Many Brits are now panicking that Scots may really decide they are not…
By Dahlia Scheindlin September 9, 2014
Mahmoud Mansour celebrates in Jaffa before heading to out to his wedding reception. (photo: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)
Wedding crashers: Do anti-miscegenation protesters hate or love Judaism?
With chants of “Death to Arabs” and “Mohammed is dead” in the background, the 30-something couple spoke earnestly, their faces worried. “As far as I’m concerned,” said the woman, an economist who didn’t want to be named, “I came to a funeral. The father is in mourning. I’m here to support the family in their…
By Dahlia Scheindlin August 18, 2014
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Wedding procession at Ma'asara before the arrests (Oren Ziv / Activestills)
Court to allow anti-Arab protest outside Jewish-Palestinian wedding
A Palestinian citizen of Israel and his fiance, a Jewish Israeli who converted to Islam, have turned to the courts to try and prevent a protest planned at their wedding Sunday night, Haaretz reported. As I reported here Thursday, the anti-miscegenation, anti-Arab group Lehava publicized the couple’s wedding invitation on social media in full with date and…
By Mairav Zonszein August 17, 2014
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