Professor of Sociology and Educational Policies, Director of Masar Institute for Research and Planning, Palestine 1948
The report presents the social, economic, cultural, and political reality of the Arab community inside Israel. It is characterized as an “original” minority after it changed from a majority to a minority in 1948. The Arab community inside Israel suffers from obstacles that hinder social development, economic prosperity, cultural mobility, and the possibility of effective participation in political life.
Among these obstacles is the Israeli authorities’ policy and behaviors toward the Arab community as a group of hostile masses outside the comprehensive Israeli national consensus. The governments look to the Arab community from racist grounds and perspectives that consider the state of Israel to be purely Jewish. The Arab community lies under laws of racial discrimination, the Judaization of their occupied territories, legitimizing Jewish settlement on Palestinian land and expelling more Palestinians from their lands. Israeli state deprives the Arab community of their human and legal rights.
The report concludes that under the current situations and laws, the question of what the future of the relationship between the Jewish majority and the Arab minority in Israel will be is currently difficult to answer.
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Internal Palestinians, Israeli Society, Internal Israeli Policies, Arab society in Israel, Discrimination