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Israeli Arab groups: Riots were bid to expel Acre's Arabs
By Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Acre Theatre Festival 

Israeli Arab groups on Thursday branded last week's violent clashes in Acre as an attempt to expel the northern city's Arab residents.

Acre-based Israeli Arab community groups will announce this claim on Thursday at a press conference in conjunction with Arab families that have been forced out of their houses in the city's eastern neighborhood in the wake of the clashes.

The groups claim that the riots that have swept across the mixed city since last week's Yom Kippur were in fact a premeditated attempt at ethnic cleansing.
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The groups have also decided to revive the annual Acre Theater Festival that was scheduled to take place this week but was called off in light of the events. They will host two plays on Thursday evening, one of which will feature the renowned Israeli Arab actor Mohammed Bakri.

Meanwhile, the Kibbutz movement and Hashomer Hatzair, the socialist youth movement, erected a "peace sukkah" in the old city of Acre. Other Voice movement invited Jewish and Arab teens to visit the sukkah and creatively express their hope for a better future.

On Wednesday, the Adallah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel urged Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to investigate the posters of online notices calling for a boycott of Israeli Arabs, in particular ones residing in Acre.

The group described the notices as "Wild incitement to racism against Arabs in general and the [Arab] residents of Acre in particular."

Police presence is still felt in different parts of the city, even though quiet has been maintained.

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      1.   `Premeditated`? 12:12  |  Joseph 16/10/08
      2.   THE Incitement came from lies broadcast from an Acre Mosque 14:08  |  PETER SM 16/10/08
      3.   #1premeditated 14:08  |  Bob 16/10/08
      4.   Hatred for the Sake Of Hatred 14:26  |  Yakov 16/10/08
      5.   ARAB RESPONSE IS JUVENILE 14:28  |  Ian 16/10/08
      6.   #1 Don`t expect rationality 14:32  |  Simha 16/10/08
      7.   Last Time I Checked, Jews AND Arabs were rioting?? 14:48  |  B`Galil 16/10/08
      8.   Excuse, but who started rioting? 15:52  |  Gee 16/10/08
      9.   Who is to blame...........religion 16:35  |  zoe 16/10/08
      10.   Crying wolf 17:16  |  Yoni 16/10/08
      11.   Relief from the consequences of their actions 18:35  |  Jess Ghannam 16/10/08
      12.   Was the incident on Yom Kippur last year 18:35  |  lily 16/10/08
      13.   #2 21:57  |  DAVID 16/10/08
      14.   peter sm 2 22:47  |  potobac 16/10/08
      15.   21st century blood libels against the Jews 23:07  |  Richard S 16/10/08
      16.   POTOBAC How does one exclude the other? 02:22  |  PETER SM 17/10/08
      17.   Rioters were muslim 04:05  |  Great White North 17/10/08
      18.   David 13 - of you knew anything at all 11:02  |  ChanahS 17/10/08
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