Israeli Arabs

Colors: A Message of Hope for 'World Read Aloud Day' From Our Friends in Jerusalem

Pam Allyn | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Jews, Israelis, Writing, Ngos, Peace, Poetry, Jerusalem, Arabs, Jewish, Litworld, Israel, Reading, World Read Aloud Day, Shel Silverstein, Diversity, Israeli Arabs, Video, Good News News

Literacy has all kinds of benefits that we might not associate immediately with reading and writing. The stories we read and write and share have the power to transcend physical borders as well as boundaries of race and religion.

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Defiant Dreamers of Arab-Jewish Coexistence

Dan Fleshler | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Israel, Palestinians, Israeli Arabs, Coexistence, Middle East Coexistence, Israeli Arab Coexistence, Middle East Peace, Middle East, Israeli Palestinian Coexistence, Peace Middle East, Coexistence Middle East, World News

Nazia Masrawa, the mayor of an Arab Israeli town, and Chaim Gaash, the mayor of a nearby Jewish town described a project that is extraordinarily difficult: their townspeople are working together to solve the day-to-day problems shared by both communities.

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Of Butchers And Boycotts: The Mladic Arrest Seen From Nazareth And The Netherlands

Stephen Schwartz | Posted 07.28.2011

Read More: Srebrenica, Nazareth, Serbia, Sufism, Virgin Mary, Ratko Mladic, Netherlands, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Serbian Genocide, Islam in Israel, Ratko Mladic Arrested, Israeli Pluralism, Israeli Arabs, Religion News

By coincidence, I was thinking about Serbia when I received word of the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the notorious leader of the Serbian extremist forces that devastated Bosnia-Hercegovina.

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Arab-Israeli Tennis Star Embodies Coexistence At Duke

The Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nadine Fahoum, Israel, Nadine Fahoum Duke, Nadine Fahoum Tennis, The South, Israeli Arabs, College News

In Israel, it can be easy to choose a side. In the volatile country strained by the tension between Arabs and Jews, some choose to hate. But Duke t...

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Hoorah for Hapoel: A Core of Anti-Racism

Dana Agmon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Arab, Anti-Racism, Soccer, Olympique Lyonnais, Football Club, Israeli-Arabs, Israel, UEFA Champions League, Hapoel Tel Aviv, UEFA European Football Championship, Ultras, Antifa, Sports News

Last week, Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. won its first game at the UEFA Champions League. It was an emotional moment. But when people refuse to understand that many of us have differing political views, such happiness is short-lived.

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Hidden in Plain Sight: Israel's Palestinian Citizens

Diane Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, Israel, Israeli Arabs, Green Line, Palestinians, Tel Aviv, West Bak, Gaza, Jerusalem, Oprah, Religion News

In the past six days I've talked with more Palestinians than many Israeli Jews meet in a lifetime.

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Peace In Arabic

David Suissa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jews, Arabs, Khaled Abu Toameh, Ramallah, Islamic Radicalism, Palestinians, Stand With US, Israel, Barack Obama, Israeli Arabs, World News

His words didn't smell like propaganda or activism. He spoke for moderate Palestinians like himself, and he spoke from his heart, not from talking points.

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Voices From Jerusalem: An Arab Citizen of Israel Discovers Jerusalem

Ir Amim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hebrew University, Palestinians, East Jerusalem, Israeli Arabs, Jerusalem, Israel, Palestinian Identity, World News

I am able to see the strength and the might of this city and its residents. I pray for them out of amazement and appreciation. I close my eyes and ask that the city accept me as its daughter.

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Israel's Arabs -- A Cinematic Voice in New York

Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Films, Israeli Cinema, Other Israel Film Festival, Zabar's, Israeli Films, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Cinema, Israeli Arabs, New York News

National schizophrenia has become an obsession for the Israeli Arab community -- and to the benefit of Israeli cinema, the subject matter of a growing number of increasingly fine films.

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Jack Shaheen: Obama Delivers a Message of Peace to the Muslim World

Christian Avard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Muslim, Barack Obama, Arab World, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Obama Muslims, Middle East Politics, Obama Middle East, Palestinians, Obama Arabs, Middle East Peace, Muslim World, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Arabs, Mideast Peace Process, Middle East, Arab, American Muslims, Palestinian, Israel, Muslims, Obama Middle East Policy, Obama Muslim Smear, Obama Mideast Speech, Muslim, Israel Gaza, Anti-Muslim Bias, Obama Israel, Israeli Arabs, China, Gaza, Berlin, Obama Mideast Trip, World News

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Israel 'Loyalty Law' Thrown Out

AP | STEVE WEIZMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel Beiteinu's Avigdor Lieberman, Avigdor Lieberman Foreign Minister, Israel Loyalty Law, Israel Jews, Israel Arabs, Israeli Arabs, Israeli Jews, World News

JERUSALEM — The Israeli government on Sunday threw out a proposal aimed at minority Arabs to require an oath of loyalty to Israel as a Jewish st...

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Israel Disloyalty Speech Could Become Illegal With New Legislation

Jerusalem Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Knesset, Anti-Israel, Israel Disloyalty, Anti-Israel Protests, Habayit Hayehudi, Israel Disloyalty Speech, Foreign Affairs, Zevulun Orlev, Anti-Israel Speech, Anti Israel Protests, Hamas, Israel, Advocacy, Israeli Arabs, World News

The Knesset plenum on Wednesday passed a preliminary reading of a bill that would mandate the imprisonment of anyone who calls for the end of Israel a...

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Avigdor Lieberman's Party Seeking To Ban 'Nakba' Commemorations

The Daily Star | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Nakba, Avigdor Lieberman, Foreign Affairs, Nakba Ban, Yisrael Beitenu, Catastrophe, Israel, Israeli Arabs, Advocacy, World News

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's party wants to ban Israeli Arabs from marking the anniversary of the Nakba, or the Catastrophe in 1948, when 700,...

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To Gain a True Affinity for Arab Jerusalem, Visit It

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Church-of-the-Holy-Sepulchre, Israeli-Arab Conflict, Dome of the Rock, Arabs, Jerusalem, Mecca, Israeli Arabs, World News

Only a few tens of thousands of Arabs were able to visit Jerusalem in the past few decades while millions of Jews and non-Arab Christians are able to do so annually. How then can it "always remain Arab"?

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Many In Israel Upset By Musical Show Of Unity

Nytimes.com | By ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tel Aviv, Eurovision Song Contest, Israel Gaza War, West Bank, Avigdor Lieberman, Peace Activists, Noa, Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Achinoam Nini, Mira Awad, Israeli Arabs, World News

Achinoam Nini, a singer and peace activist, has long stirred controversy here. Known abroad by her stage name, Noa, she has recorded with Arab artists...

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Israel's Election: HuffPost Contributors Have Their Say

Huffington Post | HuffPost Contributors | Posted 05.25.2011

Israelis head to the polls tomorrow, February 10, to vote in a new government. Huffington Post contributors from Israel to Ramallah to DC have shared ...

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Israel's Stubborn Minority

Amy York Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel Obama, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Society, Israel Election, Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Obama Israel, Israeli Arabs, World News

From first-time voting soldiers returning from Gaza to exhausted progressives, it seems like no one in Israel is satisfied with the way things have been going, or with the choices they see in front of them.

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Avigdor Lieberman, Hard Man Of The Right, Is Israel's Kingmaker In Waiting

The Independent | By Donald Macintyre in Umm el Fahm | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Umm El Fahm, Israel Elections, Israel Election, The Independent, Wadi Ara, Avigdor Lieberman, Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak, Yisrael Beiteinu, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Israeli Arabs, World News

Avigdor Lieberman, the far-right politician campaigning on a platform that Israeli Arabs should pledge loyalty to the state or lose their right to vot...

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