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Internal Discrimination
What happens to a seemingly rational adult who sexually assaults a young child? What goes on his mind? How does he reach this point? A person who outwardly seems very normal wakes up in the morning, brushes his teeth, gets dressed, eats breakfast, goes to work, raises his children, and talks to his wife—and the whole time he maintains a dark, hidden corner that makes him assault children aged five, four, or three. We think he is a father, an uncle, a grandfather, or a big brother. What kind of person is this? What is he like? How does he arise from our midst? What does he mean for us?
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Crimes of the occupation army
Now especially, as Ari Folman’s technically beautiful but morally repugnant film, “Waltz with Bashir,” exonerates and cleanses himself and his people of the massacre of Palestinians at Sabra and Shatila with a journey through memory that ends with the repetition of that well-worn, constant lie, it is perhaps time—26 years after the fact—to admit the truth: the state of Israel—our country, us—we perpetrated the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
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Discrimination Against Arabs 48
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said today at a conference on Arab affairs, held in Haifa, “Israeli Arabs do not constitute a strategic threat. I do not view them as a strategic threat.” Shawqi al-Khatib, the head of the Arab Higher Follow-Up Committee, said in his speech that “the time for crying is over” for the Arab community.
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Discrimination Against Arabs 48
The day that Sikkuy released its equality index, which shows that Jews live longer than Arabs, it turns out that the situation is even worse. Figures presented to the parliamentary investigative committee on the employment of Arabs in the civil service show that Tel Aviv comes in last place among all local authorities for its record of hiring Arabs.
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Discrimination Against Arabs 48
“Last year gaps between Arabs and Jews in Israel widened in most fields, with the Jewish population in Israel in 2008 living longer and better”—this was the basic conclusion of the annual equality report issued by Sikkuy, an association working for civic equality between Jews and Arabs in Israel.
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Discrimination against minorities (Arabic World)
About three weeks ago here in this space I raised the problem of Nur, aged six, and Hana, aged 3. The British School in New Cairo refused to move Nur from kindergarten into primary school and refused to accept Hana into the kindergarten at all because their application papers are missing an important document: an electronic birth certificate (they only have a paper birth certificate).
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Freedom of Expression (Arabic World)
The Arab Network for Human Rights Information reported on its website that on Wednesday the Egyptian security establishment ordered a filming company to cancel filming for two segments of a program on the American Hurra channel.
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Discrimination against women (Arabic World)
The police of Sidi Salem, located in Kafr al-Sheikh, charge a man and his wife with offering their daughter-in-law to a con artist; he was allowed to rape the woman if in return he would extract the cash and antiquities that the couple claimed was inside their home in a village in Sidi Salem. The suspects were arrested and transferred to the prosecutor’s office, where they were jailed pending an investigation.
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Discrimination against minorities (Arabic World)
The British police announced on Tuesday that a Qatari youth, age 16, who was taking a language class in Britain, died after an attack in Hastings, located in southern England, which they described as “racist.” Mohammed al-Majed was assaulted after an argument with young Britons in Hastings.
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Discrimination Against Foreigners (Arabs World)
A right group based in the US says that Lebanon must improve conditions for migrant domestic workers, who often commit suicide or meet their death while trying to escape from the employers.
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