The Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel (20% of the population or about 1.2 million people, excluding East Jerusalem and Golan) face institutionalized inequality that excludes them from state resources, services and positions.
Israel’s attempt to legislate loyalty to the Jewish state is proof of the failure of the Zionist/colonial project of Israelification. by Azmi Bishara What is behind the latest wave of legislative proposals flooding the Knesset agenda? I refer specifically to those intended to curb manifestations of Palestinian patriotism and to restrict the political activity of [...]
By Azmi Bishara – latimes.com During my years in the Knesset, the attorney general indicted me for voicing my political opinions (the charges were dropped), lobbied to have my parliamentary immunity revoked and sought unsuccessfully to disqualify my political party from participating in elections — all because I believe Israel should be a state for [...]
There are plenty of noteworthy articles that are missed every week. To give them credit and rescue them from going unnoticed by my blog readers, I will try to compile some of these articles every weekend in a ‘Weekend Read’ post. Here is the first one: 1. The Holocaust as political asset By Amira Hass [...]
What do you know about Arab-Israel living inside Israel? In other words, what do you know about Palestinians living in ‘Occupied Palestine’ which is now called Israel? I was never asked this straight question, but when thought of it after receiving the quoted email below, I forced myself to think of the answer and arrange [...]