Netanyahu, Likud spread hate of Arab Israelis, U.S. State Department report says - Israel News - Haaretz.com
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The U.S. State Department accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party of promoting hatred against Israel’s Arab citizens in its annual human rights report, published on Wednesday.
The report also criticized Likud for placing cameras at polling stations in Arab towns and neighborhoods during the general election in April 2019.
The annual report contains a country-by-country breakdown of important events that impact the human rights situation around the world. This year’s report made headlines because of a semantic change in how it refers to Palestinians who live in East Jerusalem – instead of calling them “Palestinian residents” as in previous reports, they are now “Arab residents” or “non-Israeli citizens,” a move that was criticized by Palestinian leaders.
