'Current Knesset is the most racist in Israeli history'

[Donald Ian Rankin]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157857.html

The Israeli government passed at least 21 bills aimed at discriminating against the country's Arab citizens making the current Knesset as being the most racist Israeli parliament since the country's founding, according to a report released Sunday by civil rights groups.

The Coalition Against Racism and the Mossawa Center, which works to promote equality, claimed that the proposed legislation seeks to de-legitimize Israel's Arab citizens by decreasing their civil rights. The report's data show that in 2008 there were 11 bills defined as racist presented to the Knesset while in 2009 there were 12 such bills.

In 2010, the report's authors claim, there were no less than 21 bills proposed that included discriminatory elements against the country's Arab citizens.
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According to the report released to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the number of laws that discriminate against Arab citizens proposed in the current Knesset bypassed all previous years, increasing by 75 percent.

"There has never been a Knesset as active in proposing discriminating and racist legislation against the country's Arab citizens," said the report's authors Lizi Sagi and Nidal Othman.

(more at link)

[whyverne]

1. Don't ya have to be from different races to be racist? n/t

[LeftishBrit]

3. It's a sad fact of human nature, but no.

While it's *easier* to be racist toward people of different races, people can and do make use of *any* sort of difference. E.g. Europaean prejudices against Jews; English against Irish and vice versa; currently English against Poles and other East Europaeans- etc.

[IDFbunny]

6. What was once called 'prejudice' is now 'racism'?

[IDFbunny]

5. Semites vs Semites?

[Crunchy Frog]

7. Race is only a social construct.

You only have to be percieved by society as being from different races.

[Jefferson23]

2. Perhaps Israel's lawmakers should re-name the proposed legislation, Our True Colors Bill.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Sad and disgusting.