3-24-2014 Palestinians must resist Israel's efforts to foment sectarianism - Nadim Nashif The Electronic Intifada

http://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinians-must-resist-israels-efforts-foment-sectarianism/13269

 

On 24 February, Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, approved a controversial law aimed at de-Arabizing Palestinian Christians. The new law identifies them as a non-Arab minority group.

The initiative is led by the extreme right-wing member of the Knesset (MK) Yariv Levin from the governing Likud party.

Some consider this to be only a small symbolic action but we in Baladna, the Association for Arab Youth, and in wider Palestinian civil society see this action as linked to a much larger and systematic process of “divide and conquer” as well as to attempts to destroy Palestinian identity among Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel.

 

The legislation is part of a larger policy to fragment Palestinian identity….

 

All Palestinians want the full realization of their rights. However, this system in which marginally more rights can be achieved by military service and acceptance of sectarian identity will never result in full rights for any of us.

 

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

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