Are Jewish Israelis racist against Arab Christians who want to live in Israel ?

Question

At first, Tefahot residents received Christina with open arms when she arrived at the moshav to look for a home, assuming that she had just made aliyah. After finding out that she was in fact a Christian from Romania, and her husband a Druze from the Galilee, residents began making threats.

“The moment they found out he was Arab, the threats began,” Christina said. “They informed me that they wouldn’t accept the young children to the kindergarten, and they wouldn’t allow them on the school bus.

“One of the neighbors said rocks would be thrown at us, and another neighbor threatened to burn down the house with the children in it,” Christina added.

The two violent attacks on the house prompted its landlord to cancel the contract she had signed with the Khatibs. “This is sheer racism. The moshav wants to supervise which people live in it,” the landlord said.

http://desertpeace.blogspot.com/2007/08/but-we-thought-she-was-jewish.html

Answer 1

It gets worse, but from their fellow arabs:

HISTORY OF MUSLIM ABUSE, CHRISTIAN FLIGHT

Incidents such as this, largely ignored by the western media, have been the leading cause of massive Christian flight from the Holy Land over the past few years.

The historical Christian towns of Bethlehem and Nazereth, once home to large Christian populations, have seen that population flee en masse due to Muslim intimidation and violence. As HonestReporting has documented:

● Over 100 Palestinian terrorists took over the Church of the Nativity in 2002, using it as a fortress from which to fire upon Israeli troops, while holding nuns, priests and monks hostage, and looting or destroying virtually everything of value inside the building.

● During 2000-2002, the PA's Tanzim militia chose the Christian town of Beit Jala as a base for unprovoked shooting at Jerusalem. The Tanzim were specifically positioned in or near Christian homes, hotels, churches, and the Greek Orthodox club, knowing fully well that these sites would be hard-hit by Israeli return fire.

● In 1995, Bethlehem was 62% Christian, but today is less than 20% Christian. Before 1995, Bethlehem had a majority-Christian municipal council, but when the Palestinian Authority took over the town, Yassir Arafat replaced the municipal council with a predominately Muslim council, and Christian Arabs fled Bethlehem in droves after a radical Islamic wave began inciting against them.

● On February 6, 2002, the Boston Globe reported "a rampage of Palestinian Muslims against Christian shops and churches in Ramallah... Police made no attempt to stop the mob, which besieged and damaged a widely respected youth center associated with the Boy Scouts of America after torching the Christian properties...'The truth is this is a problem between Christians and Muslims,' said one Christian businessman."

For more on Christian persecution under the PA, see this report from the JCPA, this article by Joseph Farah, and a report from The Prism Group.

Answer 2

Moshavs are cooperative communities similar to a kibbutz. Each moshav has its own set of bylaws governing its members including requirements for membership. Many are restricted only to Jews...as are most kibbutzim.

That said, the reaction reported...if true, is appalling and must be denounced. As is the case with many such reports, the truth is often much less dramatic than the claims.

Any anger should, of course, have been directed to the landlord, not the tenant.

Answer 3

I guess, just from reading this, you're right. But I've always thought that the Jews and the Arab Christians kind of stood together when the Muslims took over the Middle East, and ended up being the minority. I guess it's just because these people aren't Jews and want to live in a "Jewish" land.

Answer 4

Do whites rejoice with the equivalent rights they have been granted in Zimbabwe? No! and you will locate the comparable is actual for Arabs residing in Israel. The Israeli government is an apartheid regime and needs to circulate the way that South Africa's former regime went. perfect now, on human rights, it costs perfect down there with Zimbabwe, Myanmar, and North Korea.

Answer 5

Obviously some are. ***However***, I checked the source of your article and you conveniently left off an Israeli response:

Here's what the landlord said:

“This is sheer racism. The moshav wants to supervise which people live in it,” the landlord said.

and:

The Israel office of the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement condemning the incident.

"We condemn this hateful attack. None of us can afford to be bystanders in the face of this kind of blatant bigotry and violence. We commend the Tiberius police for taking it seriously and we anticipate a prompt and thorough investigation. All communities must speak out and teach our children that hate against one is hate against all.

“Perpetrators of hate crimes send a message to their victims – and everyone else who shares the victim's characteristics – that minorities are not welcome or safe. We strongly condemn this intolerance.”

Answer 6

No! you will not find more racists in Israel for Arab Cristian or any other then in the USA.
If you have an Arab neighbor in Israel, first you will fill unsafe until you know him well because its normal in the atmosphere jews are living.
please look at the link below to understand if ISLAM is a religion.

Answer 7

Even Hebrew modern historians started to admit the massacres against Christians in Dair Yasin 1948.

Answer 8

How can it be racist when arabs and israelis are of the same semitic race? It is just a Hatfields-McCoys problem, not racist. Or maybe those israelis are just like everyone else when it comes to religion -- they really only like their own doggerel -- er, dogma.

Answer 9

Yes.

My friends who are Christians in Israel have been attacked on the streets by mobs of anti Christian Jews.

Answer 10

Israel sheltered many Christian and Muslim refugees from Lebanon,Bosnia and Sudan and gave them Israeli citizenship