| MrBubbles said: israeli arabs have equal rights (and thats more rights than they would get in any other arab country) |
On paper means nothing when the government itself has extreme prejudice against arabs. They don't give enough support to arab settlements in Israel, among others things.
As a side note, Israeli Jews are extremely racist to Arabs:
In 2006, a research institute poll reported that 41% of Israelis were in favour of Arab-Israeli segregation, 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 data went on to report 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.
In 2007, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel released a report stating that the expression of anti-Arab views had doubled, and anti-Arab racist incidents had increased by 26%. 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.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/mar/24/israel
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7136068.stm
