Arab Israelis

Harvard president Claudine Gay apologized Thursday for her weak stance against antisemitism during congressional testimony earlier this week, telling the Harvard Crimson that she had failed to live up to her own “guiding truth.”

Amid a wave of Arab terrorism, the head of Israel’s Arab-majority Joint List party Ayman Odeh caused an uproar Sunday when he told Arab Israelis serving in the security forces to revolt and lay down their arms, because they were “humiliating” their own people.

TEL AVIV – Two Arab-Israelis have been arrested and charged with terrorist training and conspiracy to commit murder on behalf of the Islamic State terror group, Israel’s Shin Bet security agency said on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – The presence of Palestinian flags flown by Arab-Israelis at Saturday night’s protest against the nation state law is proof of just how important it is to enshrine into law the state’s Jewish character, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. 

TEL AVIV – An Arab Muslim citizen of Israel blasts the notion that the Jewish state is an “apartheid,” saying people should be “ashamed” for using that term to describe the only country in the Middle East that provides “freedom of belief, the right to educate, to elect and be elected” to all minorities.

TEL AVIV – For the first time, an Israeli court on Sunday revoked the citizenship of an Arab Israeli terrorist convicted of a 2015 stabbing and car-ramming attack that seriously wounded four people. 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed on Monday his decision to halt security coordination with Israel in protest of the installation of metal detectors at entrances to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, describing the decision as difficult and warning that it would be Israelis who would suffer from the measure.

JERUSALEM – For the first time in decades, Jews ascended the Temple Mount on Monday and prayed without fear of being arrested by Muslim religious authority officials who have kept away from the site in protest over the newly installed metal detectors following Friday’s terror attack.

TEL AVIV – President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday slammed Arab-Israeli leaders for not condemning Friday’s terror attack at the Temple Mount, saying their silence was tantamount to endorsing the shooting.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation unanimously approved a “Nationality Law” Sunday, four years after the controversial bill defining the country as a Jewish state was originally proposed.

A battalion of soldiers crawls across the desert sand with assault rifles cocked. It’s a routine exercise, but these are no ordinary troops – they are Arabs who have chosen to fight for the Jewish state.

Israel’s security forces arrested six Arab Israelis suspected of planning terror attacks against civilians with explosive devices they obtained from the Hezbollah terror group but later lost, the Shin Bet security service announced.

An Arab Israeli lawmaker has caused an uproar after describing ailing Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres as covered “head to toe” in Palestinian blood.

TEL AVIV – There has been a surge of interest among Arab Israelis looking to be recruited to Israel Police following a campaign targeting that sector of society.

The Jerusalem Post reports: An international peace process is necessary to stop the deteriorating Israeli-Palestinian conflict, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told reporters on Sunday after separately briefing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Arab MKs participated in a “Nakba Day” ceremony at Entin Square in front of the main entrance to Tel Aviv University on Sunday.

The Times of Israel reports: Thousands of Arab Israeli protesters marched in favor of a “right of return” for millions of Palestinians on Thursday, as Israel celebrated its 68th Independence Day.

TEL AVIV – An overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis – 71.5% – do not believe that Israel’s control of the West Bank is an “occupation,” while 40% of them think Hillary Clinton will make a better president for Israel compared with 31% in favor of Donald Trump, according to a new poll conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute.

TEL AVIV – Most Israelis believe that Jerusalem is a divided city and the model of a unified capital has failed, concluded a new poll conducted this week. The Israel Democracy Institute conducted the survey from February 28 to March 1

The Jerusalem Post reports: The Shin Bet and the Israel Police in a joint operation recently arrested two Arab-Israeli men who allegedly supported the Islamic State and who are suspected in connection with the execution of a terrorist attack. The two

TEL AVIV – Nearly half of the Palestinian terrorists responsible for attacks or attempted attacks against Israeli civilians during the ongoing so-called cycle of violence are aged 20 or less, and more than one in 10 were carried out by women,

Thee Knesset Ethics Committee on Monday banned three Arab MKs from parliamentary activity for several months, following a controversial meeting thy held last week with families of terrorists killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis.

Ynetnews reports: A young Arab man on Saturday afternoon stabbed and moderately wounded a 65-year-old woman at the street market in Rahat, a Bedouin-majority city in southern Israel. The attacker quickly fled. Police announced that the stabbing was likely a

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Two Arab Israeli teenage girls stabbed and lightly wounded a guard at a bus station in the central Israeli city of Ramle on Thursday before being arrested, police said. The terrorist attack was the latest in a four-month wave