freediver wrote on Jun 10
th, 2025 at 3:50pm:
You have not pointed out anything. You have sprouted mindless gibberish
Nonsense. I showed in the other thread the many racist laws which discriminate against Arab citizens of Israel. Or did you miss that too? And how can you possibly call it gibberish?
Quote:Which middle eastern or north african country do you think grants its citizens more rights and freedoms than Israel?
That should ask, Which middle eastern or north african country do you think grants its
minorities more rights and freedoms than Israel? Try again.
Here, I can help you with that one: In Jordan most of the 1.5 million Palestinians have citizenship and are well integrated socially and economically, while Syria hasn't yet granted them citizenship but still gives them the same economic and social rights enjoyed by Syrian citizens.
And what other nation in the region has anything like the racist laws in Israel such as The Jewish Nation-State Law, The Law of “Return”, The Admissions Committee Law, The Absentee Property Law and Land Acquisition Law, to name a few?
And I asked you to show what 'rights and freedoms' Arab citizens of Israel enjoy that those in other countries in the region do not. Still waiting.
All the while I've showed that they face institutionalized discrimination:
Quote:Yes, non-Jewish citizens can vote, but the Israeli institutions, including its parliament and its land administration apparatus is heavily biased against them. Thus, almost all of the lands in Israel are owned and administered by a state and state-affiliated institutions which have a stated priority to be biased towards ‘Jewish settlement’. There is a myriad of laws which more and less directly discriminate against Palestinian citizens (see Adalah database with over 65 discriminatory laws).
And this discrimination goes beyond the citizenship per se – this is extremely important to understand. One of the first and most blatant examples of this discrimination is the Law of Return (1950). With its subsequent amendments, the law allows any Jew, their spouse, or even a non-Jew who is a 3rd generation descendant of a Jew, to ‘return’ to Israel, even if they never set foot there before, and receive automatic citizenship.
While those who have never set foot in the land are allowed and welcomed to ‘return’, those who have been expelled from it – the majority of the Palestinian people – are not allowed to return, and not afforded the citizenship that is automatically bestowed upon Jews.
Thus, the issue of ‘citizenship’ here presents itself in ‘absence’ – millions of Palestinians should have been allowed to be equal and free citizens – but they are denied that right. How are they denied it? By ethnic cleansing and by denial of their right to return. This is called ‘demographic engineering’ (see UN ESCWA report on Israeli Apartheid by R. Falk and V. Tilley, 2017). Having applied the engineering (Nakba, ethnic cleansing, etc.), the state can then maintain trappings of democracy (elections, etc.), without endangering the Jewish racial supremacy rule.
Thus, the citizenship afforded by Israel to its Palestinian subjects should be seen as an aberration – an alibi for the grave crime involving the denial of citizen rights to most Palestinians.
https://mondoweiss.net/2019/03/understanding-citizenship-nationality/ And I'm still waiting for an answer to this: Even if your claim were true, how does it justify the existence of dozens and dozens of racist laws which discriminate against Arab citizens of Israel, in all walks of life?
When will you stop avoiding that?