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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/crying-racism-while-denying-reality/
Crying Racism while Denying Reality
(Israel Hayom) Dan Schueftan - The world is shocked by the suffering of the Ukrainian population and is opening its arms to millions of its refugees. Yet the region's Arabs complain that the world denies their suffering and closes its gates to refugees, claiming this shows racist differentiation. However, the Arabs and their apologists ignore the differences in the circumstances that created their plight and in their collective behavior. The Ukrainians were forced into refugeedom because their predatory neighbor conspires to enslave their homeland. The Arabs were conquered usually as a result of their violence, and were forced into refugeedom by barbaric wars waged to oppress their neighbors. The Ukrainian refugees are not expected to threaten the quality of life of the countries that have taken them in, to behave with unusual violence, to identify with their enemies, or to maintain a lifestyle that is in opposition to the core values of society. By contrast, a large portion of Arab immigrants to Europe brought with them the values and non-pluralistic lifestyles that wrought destruction on their homelands: violent behavior, a tendency toward mass, violent riots, the oppression of women, and the legitimization of terrorism. The Arab writers ignoring these circumstances present the differentiation in treatment of various refugees as racism - refusing to take responsibility for their conduct and its consequences. The Palestinian public, which turns terrorists into exemplary figures and generously funds them and their families, is surprised when victims of that terror treat their sons with suspicion. Immigrants from India are welcome in Britain. They have the highest employment rate and the lowest poverty rate of all minorities there despite not having blonde hair and blue eyes. The writer heads the International Graduate Program in National Security Studies at the University of Haifa.