Druze, Syria and Israel
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The Arab citizens of Israel stand in a peculiar position regarding their Palestinian identity and integration into Israeli society. Looking at Arab society in Israel today, one struggles to ...
When Shada Khatib was killed by an Iranian missile, Israelis’ responses showed the strength of Arab-Jewish bonds—and the forces that threaten them.
In the process, more of Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens will work together, study together, and learn about each other, and Israeli society will see a difference as well.
Israel’s Arab citizens, who comprise approximately 20% of Israel’s population, captured an unprecedented 15 seats in the 2020 elections — a sign both of their growing political clout and ...
KARMIEL, Israel -- Fatina and Ahmad Zubeidat, young Arab citizens of Israel, met on the first day of class at the prestigious Bezalel arts and architecture academy in Jerusalem. Married last year ...
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“The Israeli state and society, during this period, has treated the Israeli Arabs more like a security risk than as equal citizens of the state of Israel,” Sela said. “We can see it in a number of cases that happened from 1956 on, of how Israeli military forces or the police used light ammunition in response to demonstrations or riots.”
In November 2014, after Israeli police shot dead a young Arab citizen in an Arab town in the lower Galilee, he ordered his interior minister to look into whether Israel could strip citizenship ...
Re "The Dilemma of Israeli Arabs," Commentary, Jan. 8: What Azmi Bishara claims is the impossibility of democracy in a Jewish state is, in fact, the impossibility of realizing Arab national ...
Almost all the 15 Israeli-Arab women freed in the swaps were released against their will. One was expelled from a university and others fear they could be attacked by those who link them to Hamas.
As it turned out, many Arabs in Israel didn’t want to disassociate from Israeli society; they just wanted their fair share of its promises to its citizens. They wanted to integrate, not separate.
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The Times of Israel on MSNAyman Odeh, on brink of expulsion from Knesset, urges Arab citizens to vote in next electionTwo days before a scheduled vote to expel him from the Knesset, Hadash-Ta’al party chief Ayman Odeh calls on Arab citizens “to flock en masse to the polls” in the next election, declaring that “Arab citizens must be part of the struggle against the [government’s] coup d’état.