Save the neighborhood!
Lod residents protest Arab neighbors
Hundreds of demonstrators gather in front of home sold to Arab family in attempt to change owner’s mind; plan to protest all week
Eli Senyor
Hundreds of Jews protested against an Arab family moving into the Naveh Zayit neighborhood in Lod on Saturday, and two demonstrators were taken in for questioning.Preparations for the protest began after residents of the neighborhood discovered that one of their neighbors had signed a contract to sell his home to an Arab family.
Immediately upon hearing this, tenant representatives went door-to-door, distributing fliers calling to “save the neighborhood”. Some 200 residents responded to the call and gathered in front of the seller’s home to protest the deal. [source]…”
As upsetting as it may sound, I was shocked to read this but wasn’t exactly surprised! Reports of steep rise in racism among the Israeli community are all over the place; lately, a survey showed that 75% of the Israeli community don’t approve on living in the same building with Arabs, another 50% consider marriage to an Arab a national treason, and over than 60% of Jewish Israelis will not allow an Arab to enter their house! [source]
On the other hand, I think one won’t need a documented survey to understand the amount of racism against the Jews and the Israelis amongst the Arab communities, I think that if such a survey is to be conducted the results would be something like: “99% of Arabs don’t accept living anywhere near a Jew”, or something like: “99% of Arabs are proud to hate all Jews!”. The way Jews are perceived in local Arab media had often infuriated me, the scuffle with Zionism is never an excuse for such an outrageous racism to disseminate.
In my personal perspective, humanity fades once racism is on the rise, and in the case of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, once racism is unleashed this way, more crimes will find more justifications, and more miseries will find their way to more people. Something must be done to stop this madness.
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you say “racism”? are you nuts? Jews cannot move into ANY Arab neighborhoods inside of Israel for fear of being overrun by their neighbors. Druze drove Christians out of their villages a year ago. Christians are being driven out of Bethlehem. Arabs from West Bank have moved by the thousands into Jewish Jerusalem. There were articles in Jerusalem Post about Arabic being spoken in kosher coffee houses.
you are deluded.