"The Jews, no matter what they do, are always the victims."

Yes you read right. This guy as well as other Shin Bet directors who claims that Israel is not much better than the Natzi era. I read an article today in a Montreal about his documentary that shows an ugly face of Israel. Not enough we have to fight against racisme from most of the world, but we have to fight it witin. I'm a Jew and a proud one!

The state-for-an-ethnos formula is racist, and widely practiced. 40 Arab tribes fanned out from Nejd and Yemen to occupy what are now 21-23 Arab states, many with subjugated pre-conquest ethnic groups. Israel largely keeps to the boundaries of local pre-Crusades Jewish residence from the days of jund Filastin, when Arabs were a small minority of garrisoned troops headquartered in Ramla. So I don't see the logic in what you've tried to point out. And besides, what do the Czechs call it when they sterilize Roma women?

Sarah B. you can't be an Arab, because you are not human.

ok clever cloggs. what is the point? why don't you try ''talking" to us? My post # 3 was not ''nasty''

has now come home to roost...you are what the world says you are... TATA

Beautifully put. I call myself "maurav yerushalmi" because of my mixed Sephardi/Ashkenazi heritage. Compassion and hope - the magic words. Keep up the good work.

Haredim are hated because something they have control over: They live on our money and do not serve in the army. Fix these 2 problem, and no reason to hate. Contrary, the Arab old women in Nazareth can not do anything to reduce the hate. It is not hating here because what she is doing, it because of the group she belongs to, and that is the difference.

Cousins we are. Abraham, as far as I know, had 1 son, Isaac. Do you know who gave birth to the 2nd son? Oslo did more damage than we realize. I am sure the 2 kids you hugged remember your kindness & sincerity. We all have a tremendous amount of ''fixing'' to do,together, in the name of peace.

but that some Y-Net columnist is not accusing the Jews of racism. Given the fact that Arabs outnumber Jews by a factor of 70 to 1 in the Middle East and given the fact that Arab-Muslim genocidal hatred toward the Jewish people far outweighs anything that the tiny Jewish population feels, Y-Net might consider not spreading hatred toward their own people. Just a thought.

long life to you, your mother and all your family.

Kol Ha Kavod Rabbi Shu. May many Rabbis think like you and hasten the coming of the Mashiach

oh shame, no one is taking notice of your crap. poor tata.

I am not a Leftist by any means....However, there's a good old fashioned word we used to use when I was growing up in the US: BROTHERHOOD! So, Yousef habbibi, you are 1000% correct. In fact, let all the Palestinians know that to achieve peace with Jews, there is only one way: not through violence, not through stones, guns, Jihad, etc....Approach us with a hug and a kiss and you will achieve whatever you desire (and vice versa).

Menachem Ben-David (#10) writes, "An Arab is someone emanating from an Arab Land. Jews born in Yemen, Iraq, or any Arab land are Arabs, regardless of the religion they practice." Nonsense. My father came from an Arab land (Syria), but he *never* considered himself an Arab. A Syrian or a Syrian Jew, yes, but never an Arab. Kurds from Iraq and Syria don't consider themselves Arabs either. There's much more to Arab identity than place of origin.

Thank you Joe.

exactly. kudos to you, Raymond.

For a moment I was tempted to say "these days"...

We need the help of rabbis, educators and social workers who should unite their forces in order to stop racism. Don't they realize that racism is a dangerous illness and a serious offence to the memory of the victims of the Shoa? Yes, I am an Arab too.

The Czech expelled the Sudetenland Germans and Hungarians who lived there since historical times. Czech nazis like Jarda is typical of the Islam loving antisemites. They never rescinded the expulsion orders, not even as members of the EU. Disgusting people.

Naomi Wolf the infamous leftist Jewess, a self-hater par excellence is about to join Aljazeera. The tip of the iceberg: they go after the money like flies chasing roadside animal droppings.

Anytime I hear of a racist incident I cringe. I expect more from Jews. It's one thing to have biases, or even prejudice, but hatred or behaving violently to someone because they are different is deplorable. Arabs are our cousins and many of us have Arab friends. True, We might not see eye to eye on politics, but culturally in many ways we are similar. In any case we are human beings, and Arabs and all human beings must be treated with compassion. To act differently is not Jewish.

even if the reality is hard to bear: the refusal of israel by arabs is not eternal because not "godgiven". refusing to take the path of accepting each other and stigmatisation of arabs at the same time is definitively racism be it liberal or not.

here in Israel in 2012 I want to say, with the author of this paper, we are all Arabs, but Jew. If it is not literally true smart people understand what it implies, or evoke. But actually I am a berber Jew from Constantine, Algiers. You see not that far to be an Arab ;-)

Arab, Jew, Haredim, Secular--if those who can respect each other, show kindness, work for the ability to live and prosper, soon the "separation" will take place between the honorable among all the groups, and those who are going the wrong way. Don't group people. Example: Moslems killed Ambassador Stevens, and Moslems tried to save his life, and also held a candlelight memorial. Enemy combatants are different.