Israel has officially declared itself an apartheid state

Earlier this week Israel’s Knesset passed the first reading of the Jewish Nation-state bill.  In so doing it made it clear, beyond any doubt, that Israel is now officially an apartheid state.  Israel has, of course, always declared itself to be a Jewish state, despite having a 20% non-Jewish minority.  But now this has become…

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Just Another Example of Everyday Israeli Racism – Announcements will no longer be made in Arabic on Be’er Sheva Buses

All it took were a few  complaints for the Government’s Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz to act  A bus going to Be’er Sheva stops in the Bedouin town of Hura, August 4, 2016. Eliyahu Hershkovitz In Israel Arabic is officially a language alongside Hebrew.  However like all things in Israel, equality is more a matter of…

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