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Arab-Israelis fear new laws turning them into ‘second-class citizens’ (www.ft.com)

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“I was treated as though I was some major criminal — and all for an organised protest for which we actually had a permit,” he said. “There has always been a sense of different treatment of Palestinians and Israelis. But [since the start of the war] the environment is much more electrified.”

Shafamer’s view is widely shared among Israel’s 2mn-strong Arab minority, who make up a fifth of the country’s population, and are descendants of the Palestinians who remained inside the borders of the newly established Israeli state after the war of 1948. A further 5mn Palestinians live in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.

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[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

After the Nakba they definitely were under Israel Martial Law and Defence (Emergency) Regulations, which we're then practiced in the occupied territories instead after 1967. Even then, Arab Israelis continued to be second class citizens for many reasons including Education (2001 report)

Here is an archived version of the article of this post

Since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack, Israeli authorities have clamped down hard on Palestinian-Israeli expressions of dissent over the war in Gaza, while Benjamin Netanyahu’s government — widely regarded as the most rightwing in the country’s history — has advanced a raft of legislation that human rights groups say is discriminatory and infringes on Palestinians’ rights.

They argue it entrenches a system that has long treated them as second-class citizens and as suspects.

The article goes into a few more examples of how they are second class citizens, especially when it comes to censorship and a lack of civil rights