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The new two-state bill in the House promoted by progressive Congresspeople describes Israel as the “national home of the Jewish people.” This language is “unacceptable” to Palestinians, says Jafar Farah of the Mossawa Center in Haifa, because it prolongs discrimination embodied by the fact that Palestinians are not permitted to build a university in Nazareth over 40 years of demanding that right.

Flag bearers Hanna Minenko and Yakov Toumarkin of Team Israel during the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, July 23, 2021 (Photo: Getty Images/Matthias Hangst)

Palestinian citizens of Israel are 20 percent of the population. But not a single one was on Israel’s 90-member Olympic team. “Sports Apartheid” is the correct term for preventing 20 percent of your fellow citizens from competing internationally. What’s also amazing is that until now, no one in the U.S. mainstream press has even bothered to report on this injustice.

Sign at a city-run park in Haifa is written in Hebrew, English and Russian, but not Arabic, thus excluding the Arabic-speaking Palestinian residents that live in the neighborhood.

Many Israeli government ministries have no services in Arabic. Most museums provide no information in Arabic; and the Palestinian Arab society in Israel has no museum or cinema that does programming in Arabic. While Israel’s international airport only lately provided signs in Arabic, after holding out for years.