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VIDEO | Palestinians Face Discrimination in Israeli Economy, Majority Live in Poverty

The Real News Network (TRNN) / November 3rd, 2013 Shir Hever, an economic researcher in the Alternative Information Center, a Palestinian-Israeli organization active in Jerusalem and Beit-Sahour: Official Israeli statements on integrating Palestinians into workforce exposes apartheid system. Still living in fairy-tale-land about Israel? Time to wake up: The Map of the “Greater Israel” even […]

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Institutionalized discrimination against non-Jews in Israel ~ by Khalid Amayreh

[ 14/10/2013 – 09:55 PM ] By Khalid Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem A recent decision by the Israeli Supreme Court which asserted “Jewish nationality” over “Israeli nationality” has further alienated Israel’s large Arab minority and rekindled the old question of whether it is possible to really reconcile parochial Jewish laws with broad democratic principles.. […]

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The Occupation Authority Closes Ibrahimi Mosque for Two Days so Settlers can enter

[ PIC 09/04/2012 – 12:32 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil in the West Bank to Muslims and only allowed Jewish settlers to enter it to celebrate the passover Jewish holiday, preventing Muslims from calling for prayer for two days. Zeid Al-Jabari,the director of Al-Khalil Waqf, said […]

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Detaining Africans latest step in making Israel an ethnocracy

Sophie Crowe | The Electronic Intifada | Tel Aviv 2 March 2012 Israel is moving to criminalize and detain asylum-seekers. (Oren Ziv / ActiveStills) Levinsky Park sits just across from Tel Aviv’s central bus station, a rundown, bustling neighborhood in the city’s south known for its large migrant worker community and municipal neglect. For years […]

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The Economic WhiteWashing of Political Discrimination against Arabs in Israel ~ by @benabyad

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer speaks during a news conference in Jerusalem 15 November 2011. (Photo: REUTERS – Baz Ratner) By: Ben White | Published Saturday, December 17, 2011 In the last couple of years, there has been a concerted effort by both the […]

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Ben White talks about his new book ‘Palestinians in Israel’ – video

Dec 14, 2011 Author Ben White talks about his new book ‘Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy’ (Pluto Press). Visit the website: http://www.palestiniansinisrael.com Follow Ben at twitter : @benabyad http://www.plutobooks.com

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Israel Lawmaker Wants to Force Palestinians to Swear “Zionist” Oath  ~ by @AliAbunimah

A Million Stories about the Zionist Rape of This World – in pictures By Ali Abunimah | Information Clearing House December 07, 2011 “Electronic Intifada” —  Danny Danon, a member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, is proposing that all Israeli citizens – especially the 1.4 million Palestinian citizens of Israel – should be forced […]

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The daily discrimination of life in #Silwan

Truth does not bother “Israel”. Pushing Buttons Do. To mute. “From Tweeting until Termination” Thursday, 13 October, 2011 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Residents of Silwan have long since held the view of Israeli settlements in their village as islands of legal immunity, barricaded within walls, security cameras […]

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Background on Israel as a ‘Jewish state’ and the ongoing discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel

Related : Ethnic Cleansing  Institute for Middle East Understanding | September 28, 2011 | Mondoweiss In recent months, Israeli and American officials have been increasingly vocal in demanding that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a “Jewish state” as part of any peace agreement. On Monday it was reported that Israel and America’s insistence that a clause […]

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Discrimination Against Palestinian Citizens of Israel

IMEU |  Sep 28, 2011 In recent months, Israeli and American officials have been increasingly vocal in demanding that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a “Jewish state” as part of any peace agreement. On Monday, September 26th, it was reported that Israel and America’s insistence that a clause defining Israel as a Jewish state […]

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Israel: Tacit Approval of Discrimination against Bedouins

  By Richard Lightbown Around 90,000 Arab Bedouin live on their own land in the Negev which they have inhabited for generations, in some cases before the establishment of the state of Israel. As part of the Israeli Government’s policy to relocate Bedouin from their “unrecognized villages” into government-planned towns, the Water Commissioner had refused […]

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Just Another day of Discrimination and Apartheid in Hebron

23.05.11 – 12:14| PNN By Vicky Orwel – PNN – Some of the streets in Hebron on Sunday saw Palestinians put under a four hour curfew from 15.00 until 19.00 in order to facilitate a Jewish tour of the old city for the Jewish settler population living in the area. The group of settlers gathered […]

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Israel: New Laws Marginalize Palestinian Arab Citizens

Measures Threaten Discrimination; Chill Freedom of Expression  | Human Rights Watch March 30, 2011 (Jerusalem) – Two new Israeli laws affecting Israel’s Palestinian Arab residents would promote discrimination and stifle free expression, Human Rights Watch said today. One would authorize rural, Jewish-majority communities to reject Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel and other “unsuitable” applicants for […]

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Israeli Arabs, Bedouins protest discrimination

By Yoav Lemmer (AFP) – March 30, 2011 AL-ARAQIB, Israel — Arab Israelis and Bedouins marked “Land Day” on Wednesday, saying the Jewish state still maintains a discriminatory policy of trying to force its minorities off their land. Rallies were held in Israel and the Palestinian territories in an annual commemoration of a 1976 shooting […]

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