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Haaretz contributor Yitzhak Laor added more food for thought. Headlining his article "Israeli racism is embedded in daily politics of every state body," he said:
It requires political opposition to work. Hardliners incite anti-African migrant hatred. Doing so replicates European neo-fascism. "Anyone who stands in airport lines....understands how" dark-skinned people are persecuted.
Israeli and Western racism "divides people first and foremost by the color of their skin, and that's how it's always been."
Israel is especially tarnished. By law, it's a racist state. Its Basic Laws institutionalized it.
"On the basis of this racism, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, National Union MK Michael Ben Ari, Interior Minister Eli Yishai and MK Ofir Akunis of Likud can join together and speak of "the danger to the Jewish state."
Israeli citizenship laws spurn non-Jews. Israeli rabbis act as "a separation fence between Jews and non-Jews."
Israel's 1950 Law of Return applies solely to Jews. It automatically grants entry and citizenship to people of Jewish ancestry. It states: "Every Jew has the right to come to this country as an oleh (a basic Zionist Aliyah right)."
Non-Jews aren't wanted. Arabs aren't tolerated. Persecuting them ruthlessly exposes a festering sore. Doing it makes abhorrent policy look normal.
It calls Arab population growth "a cancer in the body of the nation." It claims educating Palestinian children is dangerous.
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