Editing Anti-Arab racism (section)

==={{anchor|Anti-Arabism_in_Israel}}Israel===
{{See also|Arab citizens of Israel|Racism in Israel|Israeli apartheid}}
[[Image:Baruch Goldstein tomb.jpg|thumb|right|Baruch Goldstein's tomb. The plaque reads "To the holy Baruch Goldstein, who gave his life for the Jewish people, the Torah and the nation of Israel."]]
As a consequence of the [[Arab–Israeli conflict]], there is a high level of hostility between sections of the Jewish and Arab societies in Israel. A group of men in [[Pisgat Ze'ev]] started patrolling the neighborhood to stop Jewish women from dating Arab men. The municipality of [[Petah Tikva]] has a telephone hotline to inform on Jewish girls who date Arab men, as well as a psychological counseling service. [[Kiryat Gat]] launched a school programme to warn Jewish girls against dating local Bedouin men.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1253198149221&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708082344/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1253198149221&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-08 |title='Protecting' Jewish girls from Arabs |work=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |date=2009-09-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/mena/israeli-drive-to-prevent-jewish-girls-dating-arabs-1.490477 |title=Israeli drive to prevent Jewish girls dating Arabs |work=[[The National (Abu Dhabi)|The National]] |first=Jonathan |last=Cook}}</ref>

Geography textbooks used in Israeli schools were found to portray Arabs as primitive and backwards, with the [[Nakba]], the destruction of Palestinian society in the [[1948 Palestine war]], disregarded entirely. History textbooks likewise portrayed the Palestinian population negatively, showing them as primitive and collectively to be an enemy. Contrasted with the portrayal of Jews, who were shown to be heroic and progressive, Israeli textbooks delegitimized Arabs and used negative stereotyping of Arabs nearly uniformly.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Bar-Tal | first=Daniel | title=The Rocky Road toward Peace: Beliefs on Conflict in Israeli Textbooks | journal=Journal of Peace Research | publisher=Sage Publications, Ltd. | volume=35 | issue=6 | year=1998 | issn=0022-3433 | jstor=425413 | pages=727, 738 | doi=10.1177/0022343398035006005 | s2cid=145696905}}</ref>

The [[Bedouin]] representatives submitted a report to the [[United Nations]] claiming that they are not treated as equal citizens and Bedouin towns are not provided the same level of services, land and water as Jewish towns of the same size are. The city of [[Beersheba]] refused to recognize a Bedouin holy site despite a High Court recommendation.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bedouin ask UN to help fight systemic discrimination in Israel |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/734096.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060705021417/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/734096.html |archive-date=2006-07-05 |work=[[Haaretz]] |date=2006-07-03}}</ref>

In 1994, a Jewish settler in the [[West Bank]] and follower of the [[Kach and Kahane Chai|Kach]] party, [[Baruch Goldstein]], [[Cave of the Patriarchs massacre|massacred]] 29 Palestinian Muslim worshipers at the [[Cave of the Patriarchs]] in [[Hebron]]. It was known that, prior to the massacre, Goldstein, a physician, refused to treat Arabs, including Arab soldiers with the Israeli army.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://972mag.com/idf-jewish-soldiers-refuse-to-share-table-with-druze-comrades/40607/ |work=972mag |title=Jewish soldiers refuse to share Seder table with Druze comrades |first=Yossi |last=Gurvitz |date=2012-04-08 |access-date=2012-09-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://theunjustmedia.com/Jewish%20Zionists/The%20Real%20Significance%20of%20Baruch%20Goldstein.htm |title=The Real Significant of Baruch Goldstein |author=Israel Shahak |newspaper=The Unjust Media |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150326001404/http://theunjustmedia.com/Jewish%20Zionists/The%20Real%20Significance%20of%20Baruch%20Goldstein.htm |archive-date=March 26, 2015 }}</ref> During his funeral, a rabbi declared that even one million Arabs are "not worth a Jewish fingernail".<ref name="LATimes-022894">{{cite news|title=Extremists Pay Tribute to Killer of 48 at Funeral|last=Kraft|first=Scott|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=1994-02-28|page=A1}}</ref><ref name="wrmea-0399">{{cite journal|title=Growing Intolerance Threatens the Humane Jewish Tradition|last=Brownfeld|first=Allan C.|journal=[[Washington Report on Middle East Affairs]]|date=March 1999|pages=84–89|access-date=2011-04-11|url=http://www.wrmea.org/1999-march/growing-intolerance-threatens-the-humane-jewish-tradition.html}}</ref><ref name="TheNewCrusades">{{cite book|title=The new crusades: constructing the Muslim enemy|url=https://archive.org/details/newcrusadesconst00qure|url-access=limited|author=Emran Qureshi, Michael Anthony Sells|page=[https://archive.org/details/newcrusadesconst00qure/page/n143 129]|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|isbn=0-231-12667-0|year=2003}}</ref> Goldstein was immediately "denounced with shocked horror even by the mainstream Orthodox",<ref name="ethics">The ethics of war in Asian civilizations: a comparative perspective By Torkel Brekke, Routledge, 2006, p.44</ref> and many in Israel classified Goldstein as insane.<ref name="wilson">{{cite journal | last1 = Wilson | first1 = Rodney | year = 2007 | title = Review Article: Islam and Terrorism | journal = British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies | volume = 34 | issue = 2| pages = 203–213 | doi = 10.1080/13530190701427933 | s2cid = 144867169 }}</ref> The Israeli government condemned the massacre and made Kach illegal.<ref>{{cite news | first=Clyde| last=Haberman| title   = Israel votes ban on Jewish groups linked to Kahane| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/14/world/israel-votes-ban-on-jewish-groups-linked-to-kahane.html?pagewanted=all| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date=March 14, 1994}}</ref> The Israeli army killed a further nine Palestinians during riots following the massacre,<ref>{{cite news|last=Surkes |first=Sue |url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-goldstein-massacre-and-the-danger-of-escalation |title=The Goldstein massacre and the danger of escalation |newspaper=The Times of Israel |date=2014-02-28 |access-date=2016-01-07}}</ref> and the Israeli government severely restricted [[Palestinian freedom of movement]] in Hebron,<ref name=shame>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/the-shame-of-shuhada-street-hebron/372639/|title=The Shame of Shuhada Street|author=AYELET WALDMAN|magazine=The Atlantic|year=2014}}</ref> while letting settlers and foreign tourists roam free,<ref name = "Hindu">{{cite web | first   = Bhaduri| last   = Aditi| title   = Fabled town, divided and bruised| url   = http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2006/05/21/stories/2006052100090100.htm| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071029173031/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2006/05/21/stories/2006052100090100.htm| url-status = dead| archive-date = October 29, 2007| work   = [[The Hindu]]| date   = May 21, 2006| access-date  = October 19, 2009| quote   = Still fresh in the memory of almost all the inhabitants was the Goldstein case of 1994, when a two-week curfew was imposed on the 1,20,000 {{sic}} Palestinian residents of the city, but not on the 400 Jewish settlers of H2.}}</ref> although Israel also forbade a small group of Israeli settlers from entering Palestinian towns and demanded that those settlers turn in their army-issued rifles.<ref>{{cite news | first=Clyde| last=Haberman|author-link=Clyde Haberman| title   = West Bank Massacre; Israel Eases Curfew in Territories; Ensuing Riots Deepen Pessimism| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/03/world/west-bank-massacre-israel-eases-curfew-territories-ensuing-riots-deepen.html?scp=1&pagewanted=all|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| page=A1| date=March 3, 1994| access-date=November 23, 2015| quote       = Faced with rage in the territories and its own revulsion over the Hebron massacre, the P.L.O. has dug in on its demands that all settlers be disarmed and that an international force be created to protect Palestinians. Mr. Rabin has said no to both demands. But he [Rabin] has imposed tougher measures against a relatively small number of the most militant settlers, which, while far from what the Palestinians want, represents a significant shift for the Government. Several days after ordering the arrest of five people faithful to the anti-Arab preaching of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, the army began today to carry out other measures, telling 18 settlers to stay out of Arab towns and to turn in their army-issued rifles.}}</ref> Goldstone's grave has become a pilgrimage site for Jewish extremists.<ref name = "Party">{{cite news| title       = Graveside party celebrates Hebron massacre| url  = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/685792.stm| work  = BBC News| date  = March 21, 2000| access-date  = October 19, 2009}}</ref>

In a number of occasions, Israeli Jewish demonstrators and rioters used racist anti-Arab slogans. For example, during the Arab riots in [[October 2000 events]], Israelis counter-rioted in [[Nazareth]] and [[Tel Aviv]], throwing stones at Arabs, destroying Arab property, with some chanting "[[death to Arabs]]".<ref>{{cite news|title=The Or Inquiry - Summary of Events |url=http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=96428&contrassID=3&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y |work=[[Haaretz]] |date=2000-09-12 |access-date=2006-04-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011216035313/http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?contrassID=3&itemNo=96428&listSrc=Y&sbSubContrassID=0&subContrassID=1 |archive-date=December 16, 2001}}</ref> Some Israeli-Arab soccer players face chants from the crowd when they play such as "no Arabs, no terrorism".<ref>{{cite news |title=Israeli's World Cup hopes saved by ... Arabs |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7349701/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050405223549/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7349701/ |archive-date=2005-04-05|work=MSNBC |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url-status=dead |date=2005-04-01}}</ref> In the most radical event, [[Abbas Zakour]], an Arab member of the Knesset, was stabbed and wounded by unidentified men, who shouted anti-Arab chants.<ref name=h744039/> The attack was described as a "[[hate crime]]".<ref name=h744039>{{cite news |title=Acre gang stabs, lightly wounds MK Abbas Zakur in hate crime |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/acre-gang-stabs-lightly-wounds-mk-abbas-zakur-in-hate-crime-1.194011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016111914/http://www.haaretz.com/news/acre-gang-stabs-lightly-wounds-mk-abbas-zakur-in-hate-crime-1.194011 |archive-date=2015-10-16 |date=2006-07-30 |work=[[Haaretz]]}}</ref> Among the Israeli teams, [[Beitar Jerusalem]] is considered emblematic of Jewish racism; the fans are infamous for their 'Death to Arabs' chant<ref>[https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/beitar-jerusalem-football-club-hails-a-year-free-of-racist-chanting-in-the-stands-1.477861 Beitar Jerusalem hails a year free of racist chanting in the stands] – Jewish Chronicle, 1 January 2019</ref> and the team has a ban on Arab players,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.insideworldfootball.com/2015/04/21/beitar-jerusalem-ordered-to-end-racist-ban-on-arab-players/|title= Beitar Jerusalem ordered to end racist ban on Arab players |date= 21 April 2015}}</ref> a policy that is in violation of [[FIFA]]'s guidelines, though the team has never faced suspension from the football organization. In March 2012, supporters of the team were filmed raiding a Jerusalem mall and beating up Arab employees.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/soccer-hooligans-in-israel-bring-racist-chants-to-shopping-mall/?_r=0|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|title=Soccer Hooligans in Israel Bring Racist Chants to Shopping Mall|date=23 March 2012}}</ref>

The Israeli political party [[Yisrael Beiteinu]], whose platform includes the redrawing of Israel's borders so that 500,000 [[Arab citizens of Israel|Israeli Arabs]] would be part of a future [[Palestinian State]], won 15 seats in the [[2009 Israeli legislative election|2009 Israeli elections]], increasing its seats by 4 compared to the [[2006 Israeli legislative election|2006 Israeli elections]]. This policy, also known as the [[Lieberman Plan]], was described as "anti-Arab" by ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref name="israelpoll">{{cite news |title=41% of Israel's Jews favour segregation |first=Chris |last=McGreal |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=2006-03-04 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/israel/Story/0,,1738508,00.html | location=London}}</ref> In 2004, [[Yehiel Hazan]], a member of the [[Knesset]], described the Arabs as worms: "You find them everywhere like worms, underground as well as above."<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/English/archive/archive?ArchiveId=8245 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829094334/http://english.aljazeera.net/English/archive/archive?ArchiveId=8245 |title=Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera|archive-date=August 29, 2007|work=Al Jazeera}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |title=ADL Dismayed At Offensive Remarks Made By Member of Israeli Knesset |publisher=[[Anti-Defamation League]] |date=2004-12-14 |url=http://www.adl.org/PresRele/IslME_62/4602_62 |access-date=April 4, 2006 |archive-date=October 28, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028061425/http://www.adl.org/PresRele/IslME_62/4602_62 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[File:Vandalized grave.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Vandalized grave. The graffiti says "death to the Arabs" by an unknown.]]

In 2004, then Deputy Defense Minister [[Ze'ev Boim]] asked "What is it about Islam as a whole and the Palestinians in particular? Is it some form of cultural deprivation? Is it some genetic defect? There is something that defies explanation in this continued murderousness."<ref>{{cite news |first=Yair |last=Ettinger |title=Boim: Is Palestinian terror caused by a genetic defect? |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=397851 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041109035328/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=397851 |archive-date=2004-11-09 |work=[[Haaretz]]}}</ref>

In August 2005, Israeli soldier Eden Natan-Zada traveled to an Israeli Arab town and massacred four civilians. Israeli Arabs said they would draw up a list of grievances after the [[terrorist]] attack of [[Eden Natan-Zada]]. "This was a planned terror attack and we find it extremely difficult to treat it as an individual action," Abed Inbitawi, an Israeli-Arab spokesman, told ''The Jerusalem Post''. "It marks a certain trend that reflects a growing tendency of fascism and racism in Israeli society generally as well as the establishment towards the minority Arab community," he said.<ref>{{cite news |first=David |last=Rudge |title=Israeli Arabs: Israel is racist |url=http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/000267.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051026125458/http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/000267.php |archive-date=2005-10-26 |work=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |date=2005-08-11}}</ref>

According to a 2006 poll conducted by Geocartographia for the Centre for the Struggle Against Racism, 41% of Israelis support Arab-Israeli [[Religious segregation|segregation]] at entertainment venues, 40% believed "the state needs to support the emigration of Arab citizens", and 63% believed Arabs to be a "security and [[demographic threat]]" to Israel. The poll found that more than two thirds would not want to live in the same building as an Arab, 36% believed Arab culture to be inferior, and 18% felt hatred when they heard Arabic spoken.<ref name="israelpoll"/>

In 2007, the [[Association for Civil Rights in Israel]] reported that anti-Arab views had doubled, and anti-Arab racist incidents had increased by 26%.<ref>{{cite news |title=Israeli anti-Arab racism 'rises' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7136068.stm |date=2007-12-10 |work=[[BBC]] | access-date=2010-01-01}}</ref> The report quoted polls that suggested 50% of Jewish Israelis do not believe Arab citizens of Israel should have equal rights, 50% said they wanted the government to encourage Arab emigration from Israel, and 75% of Jewish youths said Arabs were less intelligent and less clean than Jews. The Mossawa Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel reported a tenfold increase in racist incidents against Arabs in 2008. Jerusalem reported the highest number of incidents. The report blamed Israeli leaders for the violence, saying "These attacks are not the hand of fate, but a direct result of incitement against the Arab citizens of this country by religious, public, and elected officials."<ref>{{cite news |title=Racist attacks against Arabs increase tenfold - report |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3689855,00.html |date=2009-03-21 |publisher=Y-Net News |access-date=March 22, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090324093531/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3689855,00.html |archive-date=March 24, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In March 2009, following the [[Gaza War (2008–09)|Gaza War]], the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) drew criticism when several young soldiers had [[T-shirt]]s printed up privately with slogans and caricatures portraying dead babies, weeping mothers, and crumbled mosques.<ref name="indy-tshirts">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-military-condemns-soldiers-shocking-tshirts-1651333.html|title= Israel Military condemns soldiers' shocking T-shirts|last=Macintyre |first=Donald |date=2009-03-22|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=2009-03-24 | location=London| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090323234237/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-military-condemns-soldiers-shocking-tshirts-1651333.html| archive-date= 23 March 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="haaretz-tshirts">{{cite news|title=Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques - IDF fashion 2009 |url=http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072466.html |archive-url=https://swap.stanford.edu/20090322142136/http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072466.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 22, 2009 |date=2009-03-20 |work=[[Haaretz]] }}</ref><ref name=shermeister>{{Cite news| last = Blau| first = Uri| title = IDF education officer slams troops' 'belittling' T-shirts| work = Haaretz| access-date = 2009-04-01| date = 2009-04-01| url = http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1075348.html | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090401213612/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1075348.html| archive-date= 1 April 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>

In June 2009, [[Haaretz]] reported that Israel's Public Security Minister, [[Yitzhak Aharonovich]], called an undercover police officer a "dirty Arab" whilst touring [[Tel Aviv]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1093401.html |title=Public security minister calls cop 'dirty Arab'| work = [[Haaretz]] |date=2009-06-16 |first1=Yuval |last1=Goren |first2=Yoav |last2=Stern |first3=Mazal |last3=Mualem}}</ref>

Since the 2000s, groups such as [[Lehava]] have been formed in Israel to prevent that Israeli Arab men form relationships with Jewish women. Some of the material promoted to discourage Jewish women to be with Arab men, are sanctioned by local governments and police departments.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/sep/29/israel-jewish-arab-couples|title=Israel's vile anti-miscegenation squads|author=Seth Freedman|date=29 September 2009|website=The Guardian}}</ref> Lehava has received permission from Israeli courts to picket the weddings uniting a Palestinian and a Jewish partner.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Guardian|title=Israeli court allows protesters to picket Palestinian-Jewish wedding|date=17 August 2014|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/17/israeli-court-protesters-picket-palestinian-jewish-wedding}}</ref>

In 2010, dozens of Israel's top [[rabbis]] went on to sign a document forbidding that Jews rent apartments to Arabs, saying that "racism originated in the [[Torah]]".<ref>{{cite news|title=Top Rabbis Move to Forbid Renting Homes to Arabs, Say 'Racism Originated in the Torah'|url=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/top-rabbis-move-to-forbid-renting-homes-to-arabs-say-racism-originated-in-the-torah-1.329327|date=7 December 2010|newspaper=Haaretz}}</ref>

In January 2012, the Israeli High Court upheld a decision, deemed racist, preventing the Palestinian espouses of Israeli Arabs from obtaining Israeli citizenship or resident status.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/9010302/Israel-citizenship-ruling-slammed-as-racist.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/9010302/Israel-citizenship-ruling-slammed-as-racist.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|date=12 January 2012|title=Israel citizenship ruling slammed as 'racist'}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

A poll in 2012 revealed that racist attitudes are embraced by a large majority of Israelis. 59% of Jews said they wanted Jews to be given preference in admission to public employment, 50% wanted the state to generally treat Jews better than Arabs, and over 40% wanted separate housing for Jews and Arabs. According to the poll, 58% supported the use of the term [[apartheid]] to represent Israeli policies against Arabs. The poll also showed that the majority of Israeli Jews would not want voting rights extended to Palestinians if the West Bank were annexed by Israel.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/survey-most-israeli-jews-wouldn-t-give-palestinians-vote-if-west-bank-was-annexed.premium-1.471644|title= Survey: Most Israeli Jews Wouldn't Give Palestinians Vote if West Bank Was Annexed|author=Gideon Levy|date=23 October 2012|newspaper=Haaretz|author-link= Gideon Levy}}</ref>

In 2013, [[Nazareth Illit]] mayor Shimon Gafsou declared that he would never allow that an Arab school, a mosque, or a church be built in his city, despite the fact that Arabs account for 18 percent of its population.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/high-above-nazareth-an-israeli-mayor-wants-to-keep-his-city-jewish-now-and-forever/2013/09/19/1a3fd172-2157-11e3-ad1a-1a919f2ed890_story.html|date=20 September 2013|title=High above Nazareth, an Israeli mayor wants to keep his city Jewish 'now and forever'|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>

On July 2, 2014, 16-year-old Palestinian [[Mohammed Abu Khdeir]] was kidnapped, beaten and burned alive, after [[2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers|three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and killed]] in the West Bank. Khdeir's family members have blamed Israeli Government anti-Arab hate speech for inciting the murder and rejected the PM's condolence message, as well as a visit by then President [[Shimon Peres]].<ref name=uncle>{{cite news|title=Shocked Palestinian family waits to bury son|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/07/shocked-palestinian-family-waits-bury-son-20147317554777685.html|date=4 July 2014|first=Gregg|last=Carlstrom|publisher=Al Jazeera English}}</ref> Two Israeli minors were found guilty of Khdeirs' murder and sentenced to life and 21 years imprisonment respectively.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hasson|first1=Nir|title=Abu Khdeir Murderer Sentenced to Life Imprisonment Plus 20 Years|url=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.717695|work=Haaretz|date=3 May 2016}}</ref>

During the [[2015 Israeli legislative election]], [[Prime Minister]] [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] complained, in a video statement to supporters, that his left-wing opponents were supposedly sending Israeli Arabs to vote in droves, in a statement that was widely condemned as racist,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/opinion/an-israeli-election-turns-ugly.html?_r=0|date=17 March 2015|title=An Israeli Election Turns Ugly|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2016-01-07}}</ref> including by the US government.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/world/middleeast/netanyahu-apologizes-for-comments-about-israeli-arabs.html?_r=0|date=23 March 2015|title=Netanyahu Apologizes; White House Is Unmoved|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2016-01-07}}</ref> Netanyahu went on to win the elections against poll predictions,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newsweek.com/netanyahu-cant-walk-back-his-election-rhetoric-316157|date=23 March 2015|title=Netanyahu Can't Walk Back His Election Rhetoric|magazine=[[Newsweek]]|author=JACOB ERIKSSON}}</ref> and several commentators and pollster imputed his victory to his last-minute attack on Israeli Arab voters.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/2015/03/25/benjamin_netanyahus_racist_remarks_may_have_swung_israeli_election_pollster_suggests/|date=25 March 2015|title=Benjamin Netanyahu's racist remarks may have swung Israeli election, pollster finds|work=[[Salon (magazine)|Salon]]|author=LUKE BRINKER}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2015/03/24/Netanyahu-s-racism-won-him-the-Israeli-elections.html|date=24 March 2015|title=Netanyahu's racism won him the Israeli elections|publisher=[[Al Arabiya]]|author=Octavia Nasr|author-link=Octavia Nasr}}</ref> During election campaign, then Foreign Affairs Minister [[Avigdor Lieberman]] proposed beheading Israeli Arabs that are "disloyal" to the state.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/1.646076|title=Lieberman: Disloyal Israeli Arabs Should Be Beheaded|publisher=Haaretz|date=9 March 2015}}</ref>