My Column at the Arab News: Israel’s dual justice

By Ray Hanania

Israel has a dual system of justice that is based on racism. One system is for Jews and the other system is for non-Jews.

A good example of the disparity is in the different ways Israel’s government handled the prosecutions of two people, a Jewish soldiers who murdered an injured Palestinian civilian in cold blood and an Arab Israeli “citizen” and member of the Knesset who helped Palestinian political prisoners who were denied access to their family members.

Here are the stories of Israeli soldier Elor Azaria who murdered, in cold blood, a Palestinian civilian accused of a crime but never given the right of judicial review by Israel. And, Israeli Arab Knesset member Basel Ghattas (Jittas) who was accused of helping Palestinian political prisoners who were being denied the right to communicate with their families.

You can click here to read the column in the Arab News where I wrote every week addressing civil rights issues in Israel and the Arab World, and discrimination against Arabs in America.

Palestinian Israeli Knesset Member Basel Ghattas (Jitas), targeted in racist attack by Israeli extremists

What many people hate to hear is that Israel’s government imposes a system of racist justice against non-Jews, who are Muslim and Christian. Ghattas is a Christian from the Israeli occupied city of Nazareth where Christians are persecuted.

It’s amazing to me that Christians in America are so silent and uneducated about the continued suffering of Christians in the Holy Land imposed by violence from Israel’s racist settlers and military.

It’s not all Israelis or Israeli Jews who engage in racism. But the country’s government applies a dual system of justice based on racism. Racism by a government is called “Apartheid.”

Israelis hate that word but if they don’t want to hear it, stop using it!

(Ray Hanania writes each week in the Arab News in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. Visit ArabNews.com for more columns. Email Ray at [email protected].)

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Ray Hanania is an award-winning columnist, author & former Chicago City Hall reporter (1977-1992). A veteran who served during the Vietnam War and the recipient of four SPJ Peter Lisagor Awards for column writing, Hanania writes weekly opinion columns on mainstream American & Chicagoland topics for the Southwest News-Herald, Des Plaines Valley News, the Regional News, The Reporter Newspapers, and Suburban Chicagoland.

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Hanania also writes about Middle East issues for the Arab News, and The Arab Daily News criticizing government policies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Hanania was named "Best Ethnic American Columnist" by the New America Media in November 2007, and is the 2009 recipient of the SPJ National Sigma Delta Chi Award for column writing.

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