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Ha’aretz is carrying a report of another new study out which concludes Israeli Arabs face a dramatic increase in discrimination in all levels of Israeli life.

Israel's Jewish community increasingly supports the delegitimization, discrimination and even deportation of Arabs, found a report on racism in Israel, set to be released Wednesday.

The report, to be presented at a press conference in Nazareth by Mossawa, the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel, states that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has clearly impacted public opinion, and warns that ideas such as population exchange and racial segregation are gaining ground. It also warns that several Jewish politicians are gaining influence based on a platform of racial hatred.

Mossawa is supported by the Human Rights Program of the European Commission and the United Nations Democracy Foundation. Israel's Jewish community increasingly supports the delegitimization, discrimination and even deportation of Arabs, found a report on racism in Israel, set to be released Wednesday.

The report, to be presented at a press conference in Nazareth by Mossawa, the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel, states that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has clearly impacted public opinion, and warns that ideas such as population exchange and racial segregation are gaining ground. It also warns that several Jewish politicians are gaining influence based on a platform of racial hatred.

Mossawa is supported by the Human Rights Program of the European Commission and the United Nations Democracy Foundation.

I am under the gun in my personal life and I don’t see my load letting up any time soon but I will have a lot more to say about this report on another day. Until then, I just want to point out that overall that I believe Israeli Arabs do face considerably more discrimination within Israeli society within the past seven years then they have ever faced before but very little in life or society ever happens within a vacuum-like state and the question really becomes - what does one do about it? Think Peki’in, and then, read this Ynet News account.