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Thread #153638   Message #3606489
Posted By: Jim Carroll
02-Mar-14 - 02:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: BDS of Israel 'Gathering Weight.'
Subject: RE: BS: BDS of Israel 'Gathering Weight.'
"And that has what to do with the Palestinians and other non-Jewish Israeli's having equal rights in Israel"
Ignoring the situation in Israel, where even some of its own citizens have taken to describing it as an "Apartheid state" does not make your continuing unqualified claim anything other than a lie   
From - the 'Or report':
"Civil rights
Main article: Ethnic discrimination in IsraelDirected at Arabs
The Israeli Declaration of Independence stated that the State of Israel would ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex, and guaranteed freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture.
While formally equal according to Israeli law, a number of official sources acknowledge that Arab citizens of Israel experience discrimination in many aspects of life. Israeli High Court Justice (Ret.) Theodor Or wrote in The Report by the State Commission of Inquiry into the Events of October 2000:[182]
The Arab citizens of Israel live in a reality in which they experience discrimination as Arabs. This inequality has been documented in a large number of professional surveys and studies, has been confirmed in court judgments and government resolutions, and has also found expression in reports by the state comptroller and in other official documents. Although the Jewish majority's awareness of this discrimination is often quite low, it plays a central role in the sensibilities and attitudes of Arab citizens. This discrimination is widely accepted, both within the Arab sector and outside it, and by official assessments, as a chief cause of agitation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/israel_studies/v011/11.2or.html

Published March 2011.
The definition of Israel as "the Jewish State" or "the State of the Jewish People" makes inequality a practical, political and ideological reality for Palestinian citizens of Israel.
The State of Israel, as an ethnocracy or "ethnic nationstate", is systematically failing to adopt effective measures to redress the gaps that exist between the Palestinian minority and the Jewish majority. By privileging Jewish citizens in many fields, the state actively preserves and even widens these gaps.

The inequality Report
"The Inequality Report details some of the main legal, political and policy structures that institutionalize and entrench discrimination against the Palestinian minority in Israel."
The Inequality Report

The last time I put up 'The Inequality Report' one of the 'usual suspects' braindead said there was too much to read; another said it couldn't be believed because "it was written by Arabs" - that is how "equal" these twots believe Arabs to be - they don't even believe their own lies.
Jim Carroll