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One lynching tells the story of Israel’s racial pyramid
The acquittal of the two Israelis in the lynching of an Eritrean asylum seeker reveals just how deeply white supremacism is entrenched in Israel's political establishment.
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Orly Noy
July 21, 2020
A pat on the back for condemning anti-Arab racism
A video of a popular children's entertainer mocking Bedouin children was widely condemned by Israeli society. But does the singling out of one racist prevent a real reckoning?
By
Edo Konrad
July 15, 2020
Mizrahi-washing: The new face of Israeli propaganda
A new brand of pro-Israel activism is exploiting the oppression of Mizrahi Jews in order to justify the subjugation of Palestinians.
By
Lihi Yona
June 25, 2020
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Coronavirus pandemic driving increased racism against Indian Jews in Israel
A 28-year-old Indian Jew in Israel is in hospital after being assaulted by Israelis who called him 'corona.'
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Saudamini Jain
March 20, 2020
Anti-Palestinian incitement spikes online with Israeli election season
Violent, racist speech against Palestinians and Arabs was posted every 64 seconds on Israeli social media last year, new report finds.
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Ellie Stern
March 12, 2020
Yes, Mizrahim support the right. But not for the reasons you think
By supporting right-wing parties, Mizrahim have found solutions to hardships that stemmed from decades of Ashkenazi supremacy in Israel.
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Tom Mehager
February 27, 2020
Police reverse racial profiling policy at Israeli hospital
Israeli police tell High Court that security guards no longer single out 'Arab-looking' passengers on buses entering Barzilai Medical Center.
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Meron Rapoport
January 27, 2020
‘Our Boys’ exposes the Mizrahi-Palestinian fault line
‘Our Boys’ shows that Mizrahi racism has transformed into a real and deadly threat. As the younger generation of Mizrahim, we must accept accountability for and develop a new understanding of Mizrahi-Palestinian relations. By Moran Habaz As someone who grew up in Jerusalem and experienced its bloodied streets as a teenager during the Second Intifada, HBO’s “Our Boys” shook…
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Haokets
October 11, 2019
Otzma Yehudit is out. Does that mean Israelis reject Kahanism?
While the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit party failed to pass the electoral threshold, the latest national elections in Israel saw the normalization of Kahane’s particular brand of overt racism. Twenty-one years ago, Rabbi Meir Kahane stared into the camera during an election ad for his Kach party and told viewers, “[the Arabs of Israel] want to kill…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
September 19, 2019
How ‘cultural racism’ helps Israelis rationalize inequality, discrimination
‘Cultural racism’ blames minorities for their inequality by suggesting that their low social position is due to a lack of effort or failure to adjust to a Western way of life. But active and institutional racism is the real culprit. By Rachel Shenhav-Goldberg It has been 35 years since Ethiopians immigrated to Israel, after leaving…
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July 29, 2019
‘To ask an Arab student to internalize this is a way of humiliating him’
Israel requires all high school students who want to travel abroad on school-sponsored trips to pass an online course that promotes far-right and often racist ideas about Palestinians. One Arab school in northern Israel has had enough of it. Before a high school student in Israel can participate in a school-sponsored trip overseas they must…
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Henriette Chacar
July 14, 2019
Once there’s no Palestinian suspect, the media loses interest
The media played a key role in turning a Palestinian man into the top suspect in a recent child rape case. But ever since charges against him were dropped, the press seems to have lost interest in the case. By Uzi Benziman If you Google the recent rape case of a seven-year-old ultra-Orthodox girl in an ultra-Orthodox settlement in…
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The Seventh Eye
July 11, 2019
Ethiopians have an opportunity at solidarity with Palestinians. Will they take it?
Solomon Tekah was shot and killed by an Israeli police officer because he was black. As a Palestinian I know exactly what that feels like. By Ashraf Ghandour For over a week I have watched Ethiopian Israelis conduct a loud and righteous struggle against the systematic racism that has held them down for 35 years.…
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