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Compare to [[Arabs and anti-Semitism]].

''Some Israelis hold bigoted views about [[Palestinian]] [[Arabs]]. Many view this as an indication of the hostile intentions of [[Israel]], and something that must be taken into account when analyzing the [[Arab-Israeli conflict]]. Some Israelis work to fight racism against Arabs and Muslims, and also to fight [[Muslim]] [[anti-Semitism]]; as such there are ma(contracted; show full)

* "We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours." -- Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces - Gad Becker, ''Yediot Aharonot'', 13 April 1983, ''New York Times'' 14 April 1983. 

=== Examples of bigotry ===


Individual Israelis who have engaged in hateful speech against Palestinians.

* "Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours... Everything we don't grab will go to them." [[Ariel Sharon]], Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing [[Tsomet Party]], Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998. 

* "It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands." -- Yoram Bar Porath, ''Yediot Aharonot'', July 14, 1972. 
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== Israeli and Jewish projects that fight bigotry ==

There are many Israeli and Jewish projects that work to create a peaceful and productive co-existence between Israelis and Arabs. These projects include:

*Neve Shalom Humanitarian Aid Project
*The Hamidrasha Jewish-Arab Beit Midrash 
*The Ir Shalem co-existence program 
*Seeds of Peace 
*Givat Haviva's Jewish-Arab Center for Peace 
*OneVoice, a project of the Peaceworks Foundation 

These projects are discussed in the article on [[Israeli-Arab cooperation projects]].

See also: [[Anti-Arab]], [[Arabs and anti-Semitism]], [[Anti-Semitism]], [[Religious pluralism]], [[Peace process]]

=== External links ===

[http://www.ajc.org/InTheMedia/Publications.asp?did=449 American Jewish Congress Seeking to advance Jewish-Muslim relations]

[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/muslims/interviews/feisal.html PBS interview with Feisal Abdul Rauf]

[http://asmasociety.org/sermon060602.html A Call to bridge the Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, by Feisal Abdul Rauf]

[http://www.cuii.org/hirabah.htm Khalid Abou El Fadl condemns terrorist attacks as not being true Jihad, and calles them Hirabah, terrorism]