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Residents of Jaffa protesting on May 15, 2021. (Photo: AP Photo/Heidi Levine)
Last weekend Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as “terrorists” those Palestinian citizens who have been protesting decades of state-sponsored discrimination. Vowing that “anyone who acts like a terrorist will be handled like one”, he said: “Arab law-breakers are attacking Jews, burning synagogues and Jewish homes.”
Netanyahu has been far from alone in his denunciations of nearly two weeks of protests inside Israel by the fifth of Israel’s population who are Palestinian by origin. They are the remnants of the Palestinian people, most of whom were ethnically cleansed at Israel’s founding in 1948.
Palestinians in Israel now face far-right mob violence backed by the state
Protests by Palestinian citizens are being greeted with a mix of police violence and vigilante-style attacks from Jewish fascists
by Jonathan Cook / May 15th, 2021
With Jerusalem ablaze and Gaza on the brink of another major Israeli onslaught, it has been easy to overlook the rapidly escalating ethnic violence inside Israel, where one in five of the population is Palestinian.
These 1.8 million Palestinians – Israeli citizens in little more than name – have spent the past week venting their frustration and anger at decades of Israeli oppression directed at their own communities inside Israel, as well as at Palestinians under more visible occupation.
Protests by Palestinian citizens are being greeted with a mix of police violence and vigilante-style attacks from Jewish fascists With Jerusalem ablaze and Gaza on the brink of another major Israeli onslaught, it has been easy to overlook the.