Just as Arab immigrants get routinely assaulted and abused across Europe (and Russia), second-class Arab-Israelis get pushed around by "civilized" Jews....
Tuesday, July 23, 2002 Av 14, 5762
When life's a racist beach
A family of adult professionals on a quiet day out is assaulted, for being Arab
By Joseph Algazy
haaretzdaily.com
Excerpt:
Since the beginning of the current intifada and the bloody events of October 2000 in Arab towns in the Galilee and the northern Triangle, Arab citizens have complained of racist treatment. Arab newspapers like A-Siniara, Al-Ittihad and Kul Al-Arab report continually about such incidents, but they are rarely noted in the Hebrew press.
Among other reports was one about dozens of residents from the Givat Hat'marim neighborhood of Acre who demonstrated against the family of an Arab physician, Dr. Amin Safiyyah, who bought a home in the neighborhood. Dr. Safiyyah wasn't helped by the fact that he runs hostels for shell-shocked and disabled patients under the aegis of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Defense.
The demonstrators chanted, "No Arabs wanted" and "Death to the Arabs." In Kfar Saba, an apartment was wrecked after having been purchased by a dentist from Tira, Dr. Sami Sultan: "Tsomet Hasharon," the regional newspaper there, termed it "the ugly face of racism." In Or Akiva, the dental office of Dr. Nihad Gera of Jatt was torched.
In Safed, a flyer made the rounds with the headline "The Arabs Plan to Conquer Safed." The flyer warned Jews not to sell apartments or shops to Arab citizens. A similar call was heard in Upper Nazareth. About three months ago, around Independence Day, anonymous graffiti appeared on the walls of the home of an Arab resident of Upper Nazareth - "Independence for us, hell for you."
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