Three times a week I take the train from Be'er Sheva to my office in Tel Aviv. For two years now it has been the same routine: I enter the train station, my bag goes into the screening machine, I walk through the metal detector, I buy my ticket, and sometimes there's a short wait. There, I've earned an hour of undisturbed reading. Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, I've tried to head north as early as...
- By Alex
- 28 Nov 2012
- 05:41PM
When witnesses describe suspect as "black", should police concentrate their efforts on looking for a black person or should they keep suspecting and questioning everyone regardless of race to avoid racial profiling? "Race" and "racism" is not the same thing. There is nothing racist about racial profiling. If Arabs are blowing up buses, than you concentrate your security efforts on Arabs. There is nothing racist about that.
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