Speaking at a ceremony in the Arab town of Kafr Kassem in the Lower Galilee, Joint List head Ayman Odeh lashes out at Israeli policies, which he says are a continuation of attempts to push Arab citizens out of the country.
“Netanyahu’s statements, and his racist incitement against the Arab community, are aimed at pushing us out of the legal and political spheres after they failed at physically deporting us. They want to push us out politically, but we are remaining physically, and also politically, in spit of them,” he says.
The speech in Kafr Kassem marks the 59th anniversary of the Kafr Kassem massacre, during which Israeli border police shot to death 49 Arab Israelis, among them several women and many children.
A year ago, Rivlin visited the commemoration and apologized, a first from an Israeli leader.
Odeh calls the massacre the second worst tragedy to befall his community, after the “Nakba,” a term meaning “catastrophe” used to denote the creation of the State of Israel and the exile of thousands of Arabs.
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