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Israeli Knesset Member at Inter-Parliamentary Union Meeting Calls Out PA for Racism Against Jews
(Jerusalem Post) Lahav Harkov - The Palestinian Authority is racist against Jews, MK Sharren Haskel (Likud) told the Inter-Parliamentary Union assembly in St. Petersburg, Russia, this week. "The law in the Palestinian Authority says whoever sells land to a Jew will be killed. Isn't that a racist law? Your legislation has been racist against Jews for years." "Israel is the only country in the Middle East that is a democracy that gives equal rights to all its citizens no matter if they're Muslim, Christian, Druse, Bedouin, Jews....We coexist in Israel with all this multiculturalism and different religions, yet you continue to incite your younger generation to more terrorism." While the Israel-Palestinian conflict is generally on the assembly's official agenda, this year it was not. MK Nachman Shai (Zionist Union) said, "I see this as an important achievement....There is no reason to discuss Israel-related matters when there are events happening around us that are many times more important and significant."