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Too bad you can’t talk about Israel at the Durban anti-racism conference

Seems like there might be a few things to talk about. This video isn't new, but I just saw it on Pulse and found it absolutely shocking:

And from just the past two days:

Jerusalem Post: PM reiterates need for Palestinians to recognize Israel as Jewish state

World Bank: Israelis get four times more water than Palestinians (more background on this story here)

Promised Land blog: Racism on the Train (part III):

Israel’s Labor Court had another hearing on the issue of the Arab lookouts I’ve been following. As I wrote here before, Israel Railways, the national train company, tried to fire almost all of its Arab lookouts, on the pretext that it prefers to hire Army veterans for the job, i.e. Jews. The court ordered the train company not to fire the lookouts until its next hearing.

This is becoming a case study for the way discrimination works in Israel.

Should Israel be the only country discussed in an international anti-racism conference? No. (And this was never the case anyway.) Should Israel definitely be discussed in an international anti-racism conference? Yes!

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