Municipality lawyer: J'lem Arab students discriminated against

M: "Come on now, Zionists, so far you`ve only produced a few of these, you can do better!" No, when the racism and discrimination is TOO blatant they simply refuse to post, and hope that the article disappears from the Haaretz web site with barely a ripple..... Because, of course, if you ignore what is going on then you can pretent that it isn't really going on, is it????? Don't expect that this article will ever have more than a few dozen talkback responses, Murray.

You are making assumptions about Petra's 'region', shepherd

If Israel cannot administer her colony according to acceptable standards, then she should give up the control, and let the Palestinians become independent and free.

your angry diatribe is so emotional and nonsensical, the overgeneralizations and illogical fallacies are basically what inhibits any progress in the region, Israeli's have as many radicals as palestinians. Israel yakes no blame or responsibilty for its part in the madness and inequalities and violence...... Your lopsided rhetoric is a sirrational and useless as the reasoning you use against the pals. indoctrination is so toxic in your region......

East Jerusalem is under the jurisdiction of the state of Israel, and they have the obligation to educate its residents. Blaming the Palestinians is an absurd non sequiter. Israel keeps insisting on control over all of Jerusalem yet it is failing in its fundamental responsibility to provide an education.

That's an odd thing for YOU to day. Normally your explanation for any article or comment critical of Israel is that it is the product of an antisemite. So you actually admit that Israel sometimes is unjust to Palestinians? Mirabile dictu!!

Hello Meron Rapoport, I recall seeing an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about how Arab students are discriminated against with their entry into higher education in the 2002--2003 hence I don't doubt this for a minute this complaints follows along similar lines. I will pass your column and the civil rights group report (URL below) to the Chronicle and the New York TImes and other newspapers. Americans ought to know Israel doesn't share their democratic values today and they are being falsely misled by their officials and some in the media. Dutch

REALISM (#7), do these Jews you mention have the moral and political will to do away with this kind of immoral discrimination against Arabs? We in the US, having had a long history in the practice of the subtleties of effective racism, recognize it immediately. We had for nearly 80 years US states that were "white and democratic" until finally that ugly oxymoron was cast out under our "equal protection of the laws" Constitution. Israel should "get a Constitution" and purge itself of the humanistically ugly "Jewish and democratic" oxymoron.

They are not welcome in Jewish Israel where their young have been used as mules to die in vain via suicide bombers and jihadists. The Pals could have spent their welfare aid $$ to build schools in Gaza and the terrORtories. But, hey, when did the Pals give a rip about their kids? They use and abuse them and want Israel to educate them? Why? To be better educated suicide bombers? Or, they could move to Rome, Mexico, or Saudi Arabia, that's where they belong, as that's where much of the terror $$ comes from, plus of course, Iran, and Syria, and the other richer arabs. NOT in Israel. They're like illegals from Mexico, demanding we( Americans) educate, feed, and let them own OUR country. They can piss off.

When Haaretz reports on a particularly gross piece of maltreatment of the non-Jewish minorities in Israel, I look forward to the following talkback themes: - it isn't really happening - Haaretz are traitors for reporting this - they would be treated worse in Arab countries - this is Arab culture - totally irrelevant anti-Arab rants - this is G-d's command - their fault for losing the war - personal attacks on the reporter or other contributors. Come on now, Zionists, so far you've only produced a few of these, you can do better! Of course the very fact that a newspaper like Haaretz can report freely on these points says lots of good things about Israel, especially compared to her neighbours. Alas, they're slightly reduced in value when you see the reaction of the Zionists who would like this free reporting suppressed.

Let the PA spend it's welfare money on their people instead of trying to murder Israelis.

You should try emulating that before posting a mishmash of slogans and sweeping generalisations. In case you have not noticed this is an Israeli website.

Protesting against"The following are excerpts from a children's show which aired on Hamas Al-Aqsa TV on December 3, 2007. To view the clip, visit: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1625.htm. To view the MEMRI TV page devoted to Al-Aqsa TV clips, visit: http://memritv.org/content/en/tv_channel_indiv.htm?id=175 Boy: "My beloved brothers, as you know, today the Al-Aqsa Mosque is crying out: 'Where are the people of the frontline, the Palestinian people?' Yes, my dear brothers, that is the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The subject of our lesson today is Jerusalem, to where your Prophet made his nocturnal journey ? the Al-Aqsa Mosque. "Yes, my beloved brothers, as you know today, and as you knew yesterday and the day before, the Al-Aqsa Mosque has fallen into oppressing and malicious hands, the hands of those who know nothing but injustice. But let me tell you how the Al-Aqsa Mosque will be returned, how we shall rescue it from the shackles of the occupation, from the shackles of the Zionist entity. "Will it be through conferences? No, not through conferences, but by means of force, because the Zionist entity, your enemy, the enemy of Allah, the enemy of Islam, knows nothing but injustice and the killing of Palestinians, the persevering people on the frontline. Indeed, the [mosque] will be returned only by means of force. "In 1917, the Balfour Declaration was issued. Balfour decided on the cleansing of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. But look what the Zionist enemy has done, look what Israel and America have done. Look what the allies of Israel and America have done. They have dug tunnels underneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque, but the sheikhs and mujahideen of the Al-Aqsa Mosque have exposed these tunnels and called upon the Palestinian people: 'Look what has happened, look what has happened.' "These calls have gone unheeded, my beloved brothers. But is it too late? No, it is not too late. If we all unite, the Al-Aqsa Mosque will not remain in the hands of the Zionist enemy, it will not remain in the hands of your enemy, despite all their conspiracies against the Palestinian people." [...] Girl: "To Al-Aqsa, to Al-Aqsa ? we shall unite our ranks. We will wipe out the people of Zion, and will not leave a single one of them."

your comments accepted. yep may just see you there, BTW we are also neighbours :-)

Sheker gas. It happends all the time within the religious sectors. Religious schools, especially in Jerusalem and the surrounding areas are all encountering the same situation. There is no doubt however that discrimination does take a large part into the education of East Jerusalems Arab Residents but to blame it on the Mayors othodoxy is just anti dos rhetoric typical of Tel Avivim. By they way , come to pop ring, great bash at Teatron

Well what can we expect from Jerusalem mayor Lupolianski , anyone that isnt ultra orthadox is second class as far as he is concerned. This of course would not happen in a jewish neighborhood. This episode highlights the need for Palestinians to take control of Arab East Jerusalm as their capital and to be the victims of these rascist policies.

Attorney Yossi Havilio is worthy of everyone's respect, but he's not the only Israeli Jew who is raising a flag against the poor human & civil rights of East Jerusalem Arabs. There are a number of NGOs who are also trying to improve the situation through the courts. But a court order in Israel can be ignored and no one will ever pay a price. The concept of being in contempt of court orders is foreign to Israeli law enforcement agencies. By giving the Jerusalem city 4 years to build 245 classrooms is a joke in itself and makes the court an accomplice in this discrimination! An average school would have at least 24 classrooms, so we're talking about 10 schools! Whole settlements can be erected in less than a year, but it takes 4 years to build 10 schools?

How can this be? All zionists on this board vehemently deny that there is any discrimination against gentiles in Israel. The Jerusalem legal counsel must be anti-semites.