Mada al-Carmel publishes a new report titled, “Fragile Citizenship: Racism and Oppression against Arab Citizens in Israel during the War on Gaza”.
This report examines the primary manifestations of racism towards Arab citizens in Israel that have appeared since the outbreak of the war on Gaza, including racist statements and views voiced by leaders, decision-makers, politicians, and members of the Israeli general public, among them artists, intellectuals and journalists. It further analyzes racist practices by state authorities and security, judicial and academic institutions, including governmental policies and Knesset legislation.
The security and political crisis that Israel has been living through since October 7, 2023, and its characterization of the war as an existential war, or a second war of independence, provide fertile ground for the growth of open racism towards Arab citizens in Israel.
The state of emergency created by the war has brought the boundaries that separate the Jewish and Arab communities inside Israel into sharp relief, and reconstituted tribalism within Israeli society. Any person who is outside the Jewish tribe or does not adopt its standpoints becomes a suspect and an enemy, and may be subjected to heightened racism and political oppression.
The report concludes that what is taking place can thus be described as an unofficial return to military rule. The war on the Gaza Strip has exposed the fragile and empty nature of the citizenship granted to Palestinians in Israel, and its total subordination to security imperatives and the needs and terms of the Zionist consensus. It has further erased the political margin within which Palestinians in Israel used to exercise their most fundamental of rights, and seen an attempt to place new limits on their political expression and activity.
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