Joint (Arab) List MK Yousef Jabarin says the Arab community has been singled out by Benjamin Netanyahu, and warns of incitement against its members.
“The circumstances of the Wadi Ara shootout are still not clear to us, and we are very worried by the wave of incitement against Arab citizens in general, and the residents of Wadi Ara in particular,” he says in a statement.
“Over the past week the Arab population has been the subject of a collective besmirching and delegitimization orchestrated by the prime minister,” he says in a statement. “The struggle by the Arab population in Israel is popular, public, parliamentary and non-violent. This is our path, and we will walk it despite the severe incitement against us.”
Jabarin ends his statement with a “call for both peoples to maintain a sane and level-headed dialogue in these hard times, and to work towards equality and peace for all.”
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