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Arab and Jewish residents of Akko cleaning the streets after a night of arson
and riots (Photo: Zo Haderech)
Civilians Take Action Against Jewish-Arab Violence in Israeli Cities


A MESSAGE OF PEACE FROM HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RAMLA | PROTESTS AGAINST
VIOLENCE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY | TEACHERS PATROL IN TIBERIAS AT NIGHT TO “SEND
A MESSAGE OF CALM AND CONTROL” | A CLEANUP EFFORT IN AKKO AFTER A JEWISH-ARAB
THEATER BURNS

By David Twersky; Mor Hupert; Yair Zuker 17.05.2021, 22:38
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Amid nightly violent demonstrations and riots in many cities in Israel, Arab and
Jewish citizens throughout the country are trying to send a message of hope.  

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“I’m sitting at home scared, it’s happening here everywhere. They burned down
the playground near my house,” said Nur Abu Ghanem, a twelfth grader from Ramla,
a mixed Arab-Jewish city.

Abu Ghanem is a high school student at the Tichon HaChevrati high school in
Ramleh, which is part of the Dror Educational Centers network of high schools.
As a member of the school’s student council, she worked with other Arab and
Jewish students to make a video condemning the violent demonstrations.

“I am texting people all the time, both Jews and Arabs, about how the situation
must change,” she said.

The situation Abu Ghanem and her peers are opposing is indeed bleak, with
Jewish-Arab violence within Israel reaching an intensity and scope that is
unprecedented in recent years. Since last week, young Jewish and Arab Israelis
have damaged property, burned vehicles and houses, and even murdered other
citizens in cities across the country. In some instances, rioters went from door
to door, demanding to know whether the property was Jewish or Arab.

In Jaffa, a 12-year-old Arab boy was injured when an Arab youth threw a Molotov
cocktail into his home, thinking it belonged to a Jewish family, setting the
home on fire.

In Bat Yam, young Jews lynched an Arab man, who was hospitalized in critical
condition. A Jewish teacher who took to the streets in order to prevent his
students from participating in the riots was beaten by young Arabs, and he too
was hospitalized in critical condition.

A Jewish resident of Lod, where some of the most intense rioting has taken
place, died of his wounds after being attacked with stones. An Arab man in Lod
also died after being shot by Jewish residents.

Throughout the country, there have been reports of Arab bus drivers who could
not return to their homes for fear of violence. Their Jewish co-workers have had
to physically protect them so that they could leave the bus terminal after their
shifts.

Waze, a popular navigation app in Israel, starts every trip with a request to
avoid unnecessary travel. Authorities have warned Jews against traveling on many
roads, especially in the north, for fear of getting hurt on their way. Some Arab
workers, meanwhile, are reportedly afraid to show up for work, as they fear for
their safety. 

In the face of such a harsh reality, public figures, educators, young people,
and social activists have decided to take action.

Abu Ghanem says she has many Jewish friends who oppose the situation, so she was
happy to participate in the film. 

"We wanted to say that there is no difference between an Arab and a Jew, and
that there should be peace. That Jews and Arabs should stand together and say
clearly: We live here together in this country and that is how it should be,”
Abu Ghanem said. “I have Jewish teachers at school. How can we think that they
don’t want us to be here?”

"I speak on behalf of all the students in our school, but also on behalf of my
family and friends. There is no difference between us, because we live together
in this country, and I want to say that to the whole country and the world. Stop
this war, stop the violence,” she said.

“The video is the product of a variety of activities carried out in recent days
in the [Dror Educational Centers] network’s schools against incitement and
violence in Israeli society,” Gil Vardi, 39, coordinator of the new media
program at the Haifa Tichon HaChevrati high school, told Davar.

“We tried to make something positive by creating a different conversation, one
that strengthens coexistence, to lower the flames of hatred raging in the
streets,” he said.

“Our students come from all over the region, most of them from Haifa and the
surrounding areas. They experience all the violence and tension in this
country,” Vardi said. “The situation is not good, and unlike previous wars, this
time it feels like it’s eating us from within, while silencing the sane voices
in society. Our students understand what’s going on and decided to add a
counter-message, to show that there is room for a sane voice that calms the
situation."

Protests against the violence were also held across the country over the
weekend, with both Arabs and Jews participating.


“A DEMAND FOR CALM.”

A joint protest demonstration was held in Habima Square in Tel Aviv. According
to the organizers, the demonstration was against “incitement, escalation and
arson,” and was “a demand for calm.”

At the Hemed Interchange, on a highway near Jerusalem, a demonstration of Jews
and Arabs took place as well.

Further protests took place in dozens of centers across the country, in cities
and on overpasses.


THE “EDUCATOR PATROL”

In Tiberias, educators have also gotten involved in efforts to de-escalate the
violence in the streets. Last week, over 30 educators walked the streets after a
night of riots in which many of their students participated.

“I saw two of my students here. One we managed to bring home. The other is still
here,” said a teacher at one of the high schools in Tiberias, who walked around
the city on Thursday during the riots.

Tensions in the city rose after a violent demonstration last week, during which
young Jews threw stones at Arab passers-by and attempted to harm local
businesses. A police officer was hit in the head and lightly injured.

“We are here to take responsibility,” Eli Meiri, head of the education
department in the Tiberias municipality, said. The “educator patrol” was his
idea.

“The goal is to send a message of calm and control,” he said.


RESTORING CO-EXISTENCE

In Akko, a mixed Jewish-Arab city in the north of Israel, a theater was burned
last week, apparently as a result of arson. The theater, established 36 years
ago, was considered one a symbol of the co-existence between Jews and Arabs in
the city.

Residents of Akko went out Saturday morning to clean up the center of the Old
City, including the area around the theater.

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