Racism against Israeli Jews by Israeli Arabs
Polls
A 2009
PEW poll, which included 527 Israeli Arab respondents, showed that 35% of Israeli Arabs said their opinion of Jews was unfavorable, while 56% said their opinion was favorable (the figures amongst Israeli Jews on their attitude of themselves were 94% favorable; 6% unfavorable).
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The 2008 Index of Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel by the
Jewish-Arab Center found that 40.5% of the Arab citizens of Israel
denied the Holocaust, up from 28% in 2006.
[213][214] This report also states that "In Arab eyes disbelief in the very happening of the Shoah is not hate of Jews (embedded in the denial of the Shoah in the West) but rather a form of protest. Arabs not believing in the event of Shoah intend to express strong objection to the portrayal of the Jews as the ultimate victim and to the underrating of the Palestinians as a victim. They deny Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state that the Shoah gives legitimacy to."
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Incidents
Numerous racist attacks against Jews have taken place throughout Arab localities in the
Galilee and in Arab areas of
Jerusalem, including murders. Among the people killed in such attacks was Kristine Luken, an American tourist stabbed in a forest near Jerusalem after being seen wearing a
Star of David necklace.
[215] In Jerusalem, Jews driving through
Al-Issawiya have been subjected to ambushes by crowds, as was a repairman who had been hired by a resident.
[216] Emergency services vehicles have also been attacked while passing through the neighborhood. Jews who travel to the
Mount of Olives also risk violence.
[217] Jews who enter or buy property in Arab areas face harassment, and Arabs who have sold property to Jews have been murdered. In 2010, an Israeli-Jewish security guard, Kochav Segal Halevi, was forced from his home in the Arab town of
I'billin after a racist crowd gathered at his house, and he received death threats.
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In 2008, the slogan "Death to the Jews" was found spray-painted in Arabic on the cargo hold of an
El Al plane.
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In 2010, the wall of a synagogue and a Jewish residence in the mixed Jewish-Arab
Ajami neighborhood of
Jaffa were spray-painted with swastikas and Palestinian flags.
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In 2014, Arabs from
Shfaram murdered
Shelly Dadon.
Leaders
Raed Salah, the head of the
Islamic movement in Israel, was prosecuted in 2010 for incitement to racism
Journalist Ben-Meir described Arab Knesset members who "talk incessantly about the Palestinian people's rights, including their own state" but who "refuse to acknowledge Israel as the state of the Jewish people and deny the very existence of a Jewish people as a nation with national rights" as racist.
[221] Ariel Natan Pasko, a policy analyst, suggested that prominent Arab leaders such as Arab member of Knesset
Ahmad Tibi is racist because he "turned away from integration" and "wants to build an Arab university in Nazareth, as well as an Arab hospital in the Galilee."
[222] Tibi had been previously accused of racism: in 1997, he said "whoever sells his house to the Jews has sold his soul to Satan and done a despicable act".
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The head of the
Islamic movement in Israel's Northern Branch, was charged with incitement to racism and to violence. During legal proceedings, the prosecution said that
Sheikh Raed Salah made his inflammatory remarks "with the objective of inciting racism."
[224][225] he also accused Jews of using children's blood to bake bread.[226]
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