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Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Peter Beinart is wrong: Palestinian hostility to Israel is frequently anti-Semitic [View all]Little Tich
(6,171 posts)73. You've obviously never heard of DWB.
The thing is, that an Arab can't leave home without identification, because he'll probably be asked to show it. A jewish citizen isn't automatically under suspicion, and could probably sneak out to buy a quart of milk without identification.
In the US, it's considered a form of legal harassment to target ethnic groups for unwarranted police checks. Even if the laws that allow unwarranted checks include white folks, it's the way they're used that become discriminatory. I've seen police doing racial profiling, and I felt like .
DRIVING WHILE BLACK: RACIAL PROFILING ON OUR NATION'S HIGHWAYS
Source: ACLU, June 1999
On a hot summer afternoon in August 1998, 37-year-old U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Rossano V. Gerald and his young son Gregory drove across the Oklahoma border into a nightmare. A career soldier and a highly decorated veteran of Desert Storm and Operation United Shield in Somalia, SFC Gerald, a black man of Panamanian descent, found that he could not travel more than 30 minutes through the state without being stopped twice: first by the Roland City Police Department, and then by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
Read more: https://www.aclu.org/report/driving-while-black-racial-profiling-our-nations-highways
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Peter Beinart is wrong: Palestinian hostility to Israel is frequently anti-Semitic [View all]
King_David
Apr 2016
OP
All calls for removing a population of one ethnicity and replacing it with another are racist.
Little Tich
Apr 2016
#25
I see a lot of ethnic discrimination going on in Israel and the occupied territories,
Little Tich
Apr 2016
#27
If Israel did not adhere to Zionist values, it would become a normal democracy
Little Tich
Apr 2016
#35
So why do you think that Israel has a political system that discriminates against non-Jews in Israel
Little Tich
Apr 2016
#36
It's exactly those elements that justify making discrimination against non-Jews into Israeli law
Little Tich
Apr 2016
#41
Everyone has equal rights in a liberal Israeli democracy. Your charges are bullshit.
shira
Apr 2016
#39
The only reason to continue posting from there is to incite hatred & bigotry. n/t
shira
Apr 2016
#46
So there's no discrimination against non-Jews in Israel and the occupied territories at all?
Little Tich
Apr 2016
#47
Oh, I would jump through a lot of hoops if it would enable me to refute you.
Little Tich
Apr 2016
#54
I deleted that last post, because I'm anxious to get into Adalah's utter idiocy....
shira
Apr 2016
#55
Congratulations, you've managed to pick some of the least offensive of the discriminatory laws on
Little Tich
Apr 2016
#59
I think that these 3 laws actually promote the jewishness of Israel rather than its democratic and
Little Tich
Apr 2016
#62
Really? So the Nordic Cross flags of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland....
shira
Apr 2016
#61
Could you please then explain the legal grounds for mandatory draft for jewish citizens and only
Little Tich
May 2016
#72
Already did in last post. They shouldn't be required to fight fellow Arabs, family...
shira
May 2016
#75
I think that American legal standards make a good rule of thumb for determining if a practice
Little Tich
May 2016
#74
DU is mainly a forum for people who support the values of American Democratic Party.
Little Tich
May 2016
#79
Israel is an ethnic national state like Germany, Finland, Greece, Ireland, & Italy...
shira
May 2016
#80
I'm not sure what form this "discrimination" would take in Germany, Finland, Greece, Ireland,
Little Tich
May 2016
#81
So, apart from our disagreements over the interpretation of what practices may constitute
Little Tich
May 2016
#83
They are both wrong, essentially. To determine the finite level of anti-Semitism within the
Jefferson23
Apr 2016
#57