Sunday, January 23, 2011

Los Angeles Times on Israel: Rising racism, homophobia and discrimination

Major U.S. newspaper follows what it calls is a recent 'wave of intolerance' that is washing the country.

Racist, homophobic, and discriminatory, that's the way Israel is portrayed in a new feature published by the Los Angeles Times on Sunday, following what the paper calls as a "wave of intolerance toward people of different races, religions, orientations and viewpoints" that is washing the country.

Tel Aviv protest against foreign migrants Dec. 21, 2010 (Ofer Vaknin)




The protest against foreign workers and refugees in Tel Aviv's Hatikva neighborhood, Dec. 21, 2010.

The L.A. Times piece comes in the wake of several social issues that have plagued Israel in recent weeks and months – including a rabbinical letter forbidding renting apartments to Arabs, an attack on a Tel Aviv gay and lesbian youth club, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's controversial loyalty oath bill, as well as an on-going debate on Israel's official policy toward migrant workers.

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