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Criticism of the Arab charges of "racism"

Israel's Favoring Arabs' rights over Jews'

Israel has implemented affirmative action in different areas, And on campus --critics argue-- there's a constant favoritism of Arabs over Jews, a de-facto affirmative action.

Rabin's government contributed to the introduction of affirmative action under there some affirmative action programs Arab citizens pay much lower lease rates than do Jewish citizens.

An rexample in the finacial sector, from an Address by the Governor of the Bank of Israel, 13 Nov 2007:

We publish tenders for the populations entitled to affirmative action, and in other tenders too the approach to candidates from those sectors is one of affirmative action. Tenders are passed directly to several organizations that represent those populations, and are published also in Arabic.

An example of unfairness towards Jews:

Upper Nazareth was established for the Jews as affirmative action, because the Arabs would not let them live in Lower Nazareth. Today, Arabs live in Upper Nazareth but in Arab Nazareth there are still no Jews.

Some have asked if companies' Minority Discounts" for Israeli Arabs constitute reverse discrimination.

Calling on security worries "racist"

A writer titled (the false "racism" terminology on awareness of anti-Jewish Arab racist attacks targeting Jews) it: "Israelis aren't 'racist,' they're worried" . Others have spoken out on describing Israel’s concerns as "security pretexts" and translating those genuinely held concerns into policies supposedly promoting "apartheid" and "racism" - as pure incitement and the real racism, it has also been noted example-facts which these "critics" ignore, like: there are roads in the Arab-Palestinian West Bank that are closed to Jews, where the real racist-apartheid side is at. .

"Racism" epithet as a political tool

Under title: Yes, Israel's a democracy J. Dayan wrote in the LA Times (May, 2010) about Tibi's using inflammatory words like "racist" and "fascist." As is his style, Tibi failed to back up his white-hot rhetoric with hard facts. the writer backs up the factual equality status of Arabs in all aspects with facts on the ground, and goes on in saying: "The Arab Israeli lawmaker who accused the Jewish state of having 'racist' and 'fascist' policies enjoys rights and freedoms he wouldn't find anywhere else in the Middle East."

Even not agreeing with Israel Beiteinu's Liberman's policies, the left-winger liberal Haaretz had a piece: "Lieberman is no racist," and it's an injustice to brand him as such, for him, for his voters, it stems from a tendency to delegitimize and demonize people with whom certain politicians have a disagreemen with. Emphesizing that:

What's racist is denying the Jewish people a state of their own. Certain Arab Knesset members talk incessantly about the Palestinian people's rights, including their own state. But in the same breath they 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. The person who deserves the racist epithet is MK Jamal Zahalka, who attended the conference of hate in Geneva and called himself "a victim of Israel's racist apartheid" while serving as a member of the Israeli parliament.