As the government cuts funding for the integration of Arab Israelis, a study finds signs that the contribution of Arab society to economic growth has grown over the past decade. Over the past decade, the increased, albeit slow, integration of the Arab population into the Israeli work force has been one of the growth engines…
Lawmaker hopes move will ‘break taboos’ * Two centers for LGBT Arab Israeli adults to open in Haifa. srael is set to open its first shelter designated for LGBT Arab Israeli youth, in a move hailed as “historic” by one of the lawmakers who led the initiative. The Welfare and Social Affairs Ministry, which recently…
Palestinians live under the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank or under the control of the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza. What of Israeli Arabs? As an Israeli Arab who grew up in Nazareth, Amnesty International’s recent report tries to distort my identity. The 211-page document constantly refers to an “apartheid” against “Palestinian citizens of…
The first Arab party to join a government in decades, Islamists make good on promise to seek change from inside, winning billions in promised state funding for community. Ringed by flashing cameras in a luxury hotel in Ramat Gan, conservative Islamist Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas made history on Wednesday night as the first Arab Israeli…
The Apartheid Lie and the Appropriation of South Africa’s History by Olga Meshoe Washington, initially published as a chapter in the book Israelaphobia and the West: The Hijacking of Civil Discourse on Israel and How to Rescue it, edited by Dan Diker and published by the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs (www.jcpa.org). As a movement,…
