Israel is not now and has never been a democracy. It is a Jewish supremacist state, formally codified in 2018. All non-Jews, including Christians and especially Palestinians, are second class citizens. There are over 60 laws on the books restricting their rights. While a few Arabs have seats in the Knesset, they have no influence on policy, assuming they don't want their fellow Palestinians starved, bombed, burned alive in attacks, land stolen and homes razed to the ground.
Israel's been declared an apartheid state by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), and B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, and others.
Yes. Israel's Arab citizens have the right to vote and run for elective office. Arabs and Jews are treated in the same hospitals by medical staffs comprised of Jewish and Arab personnel. Arabs can bring suit in court; Arabs can also serve as judges. Arabs and Jews work together. The list of people kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 includes the names of Arabs as well as the names of Jews.
They don't have full civil rights. For starters, there are many parts of Israel where non-Jews are not allowed to live. It's a very racist and segregated society, in some ways similar to the Jim Crow era in the U.S.
Do Arab-Israeli citizens have full civil rights? Are they treated equally to non-Arab Israeli citizens in both society and law?
Israel is not now and has never been a democracy. It is a Jewish supremacist state, formally codified in 2018. All non-Jews, including Christians and especially Palestinians, are second class citizens. There are over 60 laws on the books restricting their rights. While a few Arabs have seats in the Knesset, they have no influence on policy, assuming they don't want their fellow Palestinians starved, bombed, burned alive in attacks, land stolen and homes razed to the ground.
Israel's been declared an apartheid state by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), and B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, and others.
Yes. Israel's Arab citizens have the right to vote and run for elective office. Arabs and Jews are treated in the same hospitals by medical staffs comprised of Jewish and Arab personnel. Arabs can bring suit in court; Arabs can also serve as judges. Arabs and Jews work together. The list of people kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 includes the names of Arabs as well as the names of Jews.
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They don't have full civil rights. For starters, there are many parts of Israel where non-Jews are not allowed to live. It's a very racist and segregated society, in some ways similar to the Jim Crow era in the U.S.