Even crime in Israel is racist!

Two days ago, the residents of Nazareth woke up to a horrific murder, in which five Arabs were killed. On the same day, three people were injured in Kafr Kanna and Wadi Ara in shooting crimes, bringing the death toll among the Arabs inside the Green Line to 96 since the beginning of this year. The majority of murders fall within the framework of organized crime carried out by gang groups dealing in drugs, gambling and prostitution. In light of the indifference of the Israeli police, killings in the Arab community are on the rise. According to the Times of Israel, 74 people were killed in the Arab community in 2018.

This number rose to 94 in 2019, to 109 in 2020, and to 126 in 2021. This year, the number of victims is expected to exceed 200. While organized crime in the Arab sector rises to 1.7 crimes per day, the paradox lies in the number of Arab victims compared to their percentage within Israeli society, as 731 people were killed in Israel in violent crimes between 2018 and 2022. Despite the fact that the Arab community Constituting only 21% of the population, they accounted for 70% of the total number of victims.

There is no doubt that the phenomenon of violence in Israeli society is on the rise, but it is escalating in a broader and more dangerous way in the Arab sector. In this context, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper revealed that since the beginning of the previous year 2022, 54,572 files related to physical violence, 31,285 files related to domestic violence, and 7,871 files related to sexual violence were opened in Israel. The data also indicated that, since the beginning of this year, the police opened 7,871 investigation files on charges of committing harassment and sexual crimes, compared to 6,922 files during the previous year. Also, reviews of domestic violence increased by 36% during the first ten months of this year, compared to the same period last year. And it became 5,712 reviews.

In fact, these numbers are shocking, and reflect the nature of apartheid inside Israel, in several aspects, the most important of which are:

First: Discrimination in law enforcement, as the data showed that only 29% of murders were indicted in the Arab community during previous years, compared to 69% for the Jewish community.

Second: Discrimination in providing services to the Arab sector compared to the Jewish sector, especially in the field of banking services, which allows moneylenders from gangs to control the provision of liquidity and loans in the Arab sector in light of the availability of such services in the Jewish sector.

Third: Discrimination in providing security and discipline, as the occupation police do not carry out their duty to control weapons and pursue those who carry them in the Arab community compared to the process of control and control in the Jewish community, which made the process of carrying weapons in the Arab community an easy and unsupervised process.

Fourth: Delay in pursuing organized crime in the Arab sector. Despite the escalation of organized crime in the Arab sector for five years, the so-called Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir recently announced in a short statement to the press his intention to give priority now to the problem and to appoint a special coordinator for security policy in the Arab sector. The Arab center!

In fact, the state is not present in the Arab community in Israel, and violence in Israel is without limits, according to Yedioth Ahronoth. These crimes have led to a lack of confidence among the Arab citizen in Israel in Israeli security, and have also led to an increase in the feeling of fear and insecurity among the Arabs. Residents of Arab cities in Israel.

As a result, racist Israel is racist even in the crimes committed within it. These escalating crimes in the Arab sector in Israel reflect the reality of apartheid in which Arab cities live. They are cities that live in the darkness of organized crime amid security chaos intended by the Israeli security authorities. The result that these cities will reach if crime continues to escalate is the displacement of their residents, the reduction of the participation of their citizens in public life, and the increase in poverty and unemployment there.