April 13, 2016
RACE TO THE BOTTOM:
Four ways Jews and Arabs live apart in Israeli society (Ben Sales April 13, 2016, Times of Irael)Bezalel Smotrich, perhaps the most right-wing member of the current Knesset, caused a storm when he endorsed the idea that Arabs and Jew should be segregated in Israel's maternity rooms.
Smotrich was responding to a report on the Israel Broadcast Authority that several hospitals practice de facto segregation of maternity rooms -- placing Jews with Jews and Arabs with Arabs. Such segregation is prohibited by law.
"There are mental gaps, and it's more comfortable for both sides to be with themselves," Smotrich, a member of the religious Zionist Jewish Home party, tweeted on April 5. "It's really not racism."
Posted by Orrin Judd at April 13, 2016 4:23 AM