1948 Palestinians suffer more racial repression, intimidation, land confiscation and homes, with the protection of the right -wing Israeli government led by the Prime Minister. Benjamin Netanyahu (Required by the International Criminal Court), and these practices increased significantly after October 7.
The attempt of the government coalition to pass the draft law excluding MP Ayman Odeh, head of the Front and Arab Alliance for Change from Knesset The most evident of these practices, and he called 73 members of the coalition and the opposition parties to expel it, but they were unable to secure 90 votes out of 120, which is the legally required majority to exclude an elected deputy.
This development raises – according to analysts – fundamental questions about the future of 48 Palestinians and their political participation in the Knesset, and re -talk about the challenges and concerns facing them under this extreme right -wing government.
Enclosed
The Palestinians are enumerated inside Green Line About 2.1 million and represent approximately 21% of the population of Israel.
Their presence was confined to certain areas as a result of the military rule that lasted (1948-1966), which restricted their movement and exported their lands, in addition to the massacres committed by the gangs Zionism In 1948 it aimed to displace them from their areas.
Since 1948, more than 90% of Palestinian lands at home have been confiscated under the “laws of the absentees” and “state property”, according to which the expansion of Arab towns have been prevented and construction requests have been rejected so far.
The head of the National Democratic Assembly Party and former Knesset member Sami Abu Shehadeh told Al -Jazeera Net that Israel has dealt with Arab citizens inside it as enemies. Nakba And not only since October 7, 2023.
Racist
Since the establishment of the occupation state, the Israeli government has enacted a set of laws in which the noose was narrowed on the Palestinians of 1948 and robbed their rights, the most prominent of which is:
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- The laws of absent property (1950): It was confiscated by the lands and property of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees and the interior of the interior, as the Palestinians possess only only 9% of the lands inside Israel, although they constitute 21% of the population.
- Admission Committees Law (2011): Which allows Jews in small settlements to reject Arab housing among them on the pretext of “the lack of social and cultural fit”.
- Knesset Elimination Law (2016): It allows the expulsion of any Knesset member accused of supporting “terrorism” or denial of “the Jewish state”, which is primarily directed against Arab deputies.
- Law of loyalty in culture (2018): It threatens to cut financing for cultural institutions if “denied the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish state.”
- Jewish National Law that enacted in 2018: The peak of the laws of apartheid, as the law states that the right to self -determination in the country is exclusive to the Jewish people, as it supports Settlement The Jew as a national value, and reduces the position of the Arabic language from an official language to “a language of special place”. Arab citizens are excluded and devoted to structural discrimination against them.
There are laws restricting political rights of the Palestinians inside, and examples include laws that raise the rate of decisiveness in the elections, which makes it difficult for Arab parties to pass them.
In addition to several laws that encourage Bedouin displacement in NegevAs the “Braver’s Plan”, which was later, by protests, He also enacted laws aimed at freedom of expression and regulation for Palestinians inside, including:
- Settlement County Law (2011): Who imposes fines and allows the prosecution of those calling for boycotting settlements or Israel, in addition to restrictions on mentioning the Nakba and financing the activities that they revive.
- Associations Law (2016): It targets civil society organizations, and often pursues Palestinian human rights associations.
- Laws for facilitating the demolition of Palestinian homes under the pretext of “unlicensed construction”, with great complexity in granting licenses to the Arabs.
Discrimination procedures also escalate in education budgets, municipal services, and infrastructure, ensuring the gap between Jews and Arabs.
In addition, the law that aims to influence the demographic balance of the 1948 Palestinians, and is called by the law of citizenship (for reunification), and prevents the reunification of Palestinian families if one of the spouses is from West Bank Or Gaza.
The academic and former Knesset member Jamal Zahalka describes in a special statement to Al -Jazeera Net, “racial interaction with the Palestinians of 1948, as part of the structure of the regime, and not just a policy of this or that government, and this is evident in a set of official discriminatory laws and in policies and practices, which were followed by Israeli governments since the establishment of the Zionist state.
He added that many laws apply a racist application, including the laws of land confiscation, which seem to be neutral and do not touch on the Jews and the Arabs, but they are applied in one direction, which is the deprivation of the lands from the Arabs and the granting of the Jews, in complex procedures, but it is clear direction.
The repression after the “seventh of October”
After October 20, 2023, Israel witnessed a new wave of punitive laws and practices directed against Arab citizens, under the slogan “maintaining security” or “preventing support for terrorism”, but it actually increased restrictions and discrimination.
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October 2023 witnessed the most cruel and racist measures, amendments to the “Anti -Terrorism Law” have been approved and sanctions were stressed to any expression of opinion, with allegations of support for terrorism, even on social media.
The definition of “incitement” expanded to include even symbolic expressions, such as raising the Palestinian flag in a demonstration, and many cases have been recorded to separate Arab employees from their workplaces due to publications or expressions that were considered in support of terrorism.
In November 2023, the government coalition paid bills to facilitate the withdrawal of citizenship or residence from Arab citizens accused of supporting “terrorism” or violating the state, even without trial, claiming that the “interest of the supreme state” justifies this.
On the other hand, the Israeli university departments threatened Palestinian students to separate due to publications or participation in demonstrations, and the Israeli Ministry of Education encouraged schools to “monitor” Arab teachers and students and report any “suspicious” positions.
The powers of the police and intelligence were expanded by pushing large forces from the police and border guards in the Arab towns with the “riot” cover, in addition to mass inspection campaigns, arrest campaigns, and the establishment of special units to spy on social networks in Arab society.
In January 2024, proposals for the restriction of financing or even the ban on Arab parties for “supporting terrorism” or “skepticism about the Jewish state”, which aims to pursue Arab civil societies, prohibited money from “hostile”.
The last of these laws was what was approved by the Knesset General Authority, July 9 last year in the second and third readings, which prevents the granting of a civil status in Israel to relatives of the perpetrators of operations, and under the law, members of the families of the perpetrators of operations will be prevented from entering Israel within the procedures for the reunification of families, and those who have already obtained a temporary residence will be deported.
According to the Legal Center for the Rights of the Arab Minority in Israel, “justice”, hundreds of Palestinians were arrested inside Israel due to the expression of opinion, including opposing the targeting of Israeli attacks on innocent civilians, to express sympathy for the Palestinian people in Gaza, talking about collective sanctions and war crimes and reporting what is happening in Gaza.
The head of the list of the Democratic and Arab Front for Change, Knesset member Ayman Odeh, indicates in a special statement to Al -Jazeera Net, that what Israel is doing after October 7 is pre -stamp plans and Israel is taking advantage of October 7 to pass it.
He added that “the plan against Gaza and its inhabitants to the Sinai were before October 7, and former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin wished to drown Gaza at sea, and the Israeli government is using the matter to pass policies against the Palestinian people.”
He said that he is parallel to the war against the Palestinians of 1948 in order to return them to the square of military rule, which means that they become illegal citizens in political action, “and that we are frustrated by the possibility of influence, and therefore our vote rate decreases in order to remain Right -wing In the ruling, with the withdrawal of all the gains – and it was always incomplete rights – at the level of freedom of expression that we have accomplished with our struggle over decades.
Negligence and chaos
The Palestinians in Israel suffer from chaos, neglect and the spread of crime, and according to the midterm report of the year 2025 of the “Aman” Center for the Arab Center for a Safe Society, a center specialized in human rights for the 1948 Palestinians, it has increased for the third year in a row the number of victims of violence and crime in Arab society since the current government of Netanyahu took power.
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According to a new survey of the Conrad Adenaur program for Arab Jewish cooperation at the Moshe Dayan Center, for Middle East and Africa Studies at Tel Aviv University published early this month, 75.4% of the participants reported the lack of personal safety and a decrease in the mood, mainly due to violence in Arab societies and the ongoing war in Gaza.
Zahalka says that since the election of the new Netanyahu government, the number of deaths has increased against the background of the outbreak of crime with two and a half times, and the annual killing rates of the Palestinians in Israel have reached more than 10 times the rates of the Jews within the framework of the state itself and the police are the police itself, and they exceed the percentage of murders in Palestinian society in the West Bank, and the people are the people themselves and society is society itself.
He added that the reason for crime breakdown is the state’s policies in general and this government in particular, which does nothing mentioned to combat crime, which makes criminals and criminal gangs impose a state of insecurity and even terror in Palestinian society at home.
Political repression
From 1948 until the mid -1960s, Israel has been active in implementing a systematic repressive system against Palestinians that include military rule, confiscation, legal challenges, displacement, and the bulldozing villages, with the aim of reducing them into a society of limited rights and a political clip under the control of the state.
The military rule was imposed on the Palestinians of 1948 until 1966, which deprived them of freedom of movement and subjected them to exceptional measures that include house arrest, inspection of homes without a judicial permission, and the imposition of a repeated curfew in addition to exploiting the emergency laws to implement reserve arrests without trial and controlling political activity, with the possibility of deportation or prevention of return.
The political representation of the internal Palestinians posed a threat to Israel, so the leaders were punished, and it was keen to dismantle the parties and strengthen the division between the Arab political forces.
Zahalka says that this government is pursuing political pursuit and is working to suppress the activists, who protest against the war and a crime Genocide In Gaza. Hundreds were arrested, all of whom were investigated and imprisoned on charges of expression, and arrests are held under flimsy arguments and aim to silence mouths and prevent protest against occupation and war crimes.
He added that the Israeli Knesset enacts dozens of racist laws aimed at suppressing political action among the Palestinians of the interior, especially in universities, and the Israeli establishment is tightening the screws on political parties and on civil societies.
And a attempt to remove Knesset member Ayman Odeh was removed from the Knesset, just because he was happy to release the prisoners “whether they were Israelis or Palestinians” and accused of committing “the crime of equality between the Israeli kidnappers and the Palestinian saboteurs,” according to the Israeli description.
For his part, Shehadeh describes the conditions of the Palestinians of 1948 after the seventh of October, “Israel has found an opportunity to increase the besieging of the Palestinian minority, and there are political and economic prosecutions and prevent freedom of expression of opinion, and the prevention of the right to demonstrate and all of this increased very significantly.
Shehadeh has been dealing with the Israeli government since the beginning of the war with Palestinian citizens on the basis that we are enemies. Since the seventh of October, Netanyahu announced that the Palestinians of 1948 fourth fronts in the war, when he said, that the fourth front is the home front, and on this basis Netanyahu and its extremist ministers with Palestinian Arabs since the beginning of the war.
Odeh referred to the plans of the Netanyahu government from reducing the discount rate, which will affect the Arab vote in the upcoming elections, which is an influential factor for active parties within the Palestinian public inside Israel, the more high decisiveness, the more high this helps to unite all the forces while when this percentage falls, there are those who think that he can cross it alone, and this leads to breaking up the Arab voice.