“Racist Attacks Against Arabs Increase in Israel” is the headline in Der Spiegel online. Yesterday we noted that Leonard Fein has described Israeli racism as “unimpeded.” Again I wonder, when is the mainstream American press going to get to this story? So far the attitude is, Move along now, nothing to see here.
Julia Amalia Heyer reports in Der Spiegel online:
Arabs are being beaten and insulted in Israel, where the number of racially motivated attacks has risen dramatically. The unresolved conflict, fueled by nationalist politicians, is shifting from Palestinian areas into the Israeli heartland…
[Revital] Wolkov, 53, teaches history in Ramat HaSharon, near Tel Aviv. She was attacked and her car was damaged, merely because an Arab colleague was sitting in the passenger seat. It happened in March, but it wasn’t the only attack of its kind.
In the spring, several Jewish teenage girls asked a women standing at a bus stop in Jerusalem whether she was an Arab. The woman, wearing a headscarf, replied that she was. One of the girls pulled the hijab from the woman’s head and spat in her face. The others kicked and beat the woman. A police officer stood nearby and watched. Hana Amtir, 38, three months’ pregnant, locked herself into her house for three days before filing a complaint with the police.
In a beach bar in Tel Aviv, an Arab waiter was clearing away bottles of mayonnaise and ketchup, but the men sitting at one of the tables weren’t finished yet. “Damn Arab,” they cursed, and then proceeded to beat the man, who was later hospitalized. None of the other guests came to his aid.
Youths attacked an Arab cleaning man working for the city of Tel Aviv as he was emptying garbage cans. They broke a bottle over his head. The man, covered with blood, asked them why they were doing this to him. “Because you’re an Arab,” they shouted.
Such attacks have become commonplace in Israel, but it isn’t Jewish soldiers beating Palestinian civilians in the West Bank. The attacks have nothing to do with militant settlers or an autonomous Palestine, although these conflicts are always at the back of people’s minds…
Knesset Speaker Juli Edelstein wrote on Facebook that the Arabs are “a deplorable nation.” And Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister until recently, wants to transfer Israeli Arabs to Palestine in the context of an exchange of territory and to revoke the citizenship of those who are “disloyal.”
Everything old is new again. 1933 in Europe is not 2013 in the Levant.
in israel, they don’t call them “racially motivated attacks”, they call them “Jewish nationalistic activities”:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/un-to-aid-palestinian-victims-of-settler-violence-in-west-bank.premium-1.528273
Arabs in Israel are now like Jews in Germany in 1935. It is a commonplace to note that abused children often become abusers when they get older. Here we have a whole society that claims legitimacy based on its victimhood and then turns around and behaves exactly like its persecutors. Perhaps this should warn us of what is to still to come.
Funny how Der Speigel plays short shrift to German ‘mediterranean looking youths’ assaulting a German rabbi and calling him a ‘shitty Jew’.
http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Youths-attack-Rabbi-in-Germany-315559
A headline from the Future?.
Why did the Jews destroy their Homeland.