Anti-Arab "secular" racism
- Quotation from Meir Sheetrit “Who needs them [Falashas] ? They are all Christians” — Aug. 4 2007
Interior Minister, flattering anti-black racism, about the prospect of more Falashas immigrating to Israel. - Quotation from Teddy Kollek “They were and remain second - and third-class citizen” — Oct. 10 1990
Mayor of Jerusalem (including East Jerusalem) from 1965 to 1993, interviewed by the daily newspaper Maariv after the assassinations of the esplanade of the mosques. - Quotation from David
Ben Gurion “We are in duty bound to fight against the spirit of the Levant” — Oct. 5 1965
Interviewed by Robert Moskin of Look Magazine, Ben Gurion expresses his absolute contempt for the Mizrahi Jews. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “We should transform the Bedouins into an urban proletariat” — 1963
Then Minister of Agriculture, imagining the fate of the Bedouins in Haaretz. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We have no connection with the Arabs” — Oct. 1 1952
During meetings in his office with senior Israeli officials. - Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “We Jews have nothing in common with what is called the Orient, thank God” — 1926
Father of the revisionist movement, explaining (like most of the colonists of the time) that the Jews have nothing to do with the East. - Quotation from JEWISH CHRONICLE “To know the habits and dispositions of the animals, and to be sure that the cages were secure” — 1921
An organ of British Judaism, uses the zoological language of the colonizers when speaking of the Palestinians following the anti-Zionist riots in Jaffa in 1921, which resulted in deaths on both sides. - Quotation from Israel Zangwill “They have given nothing to Palestine and are not entitled to the rules of democracy” — 1919
At a public meeting, talking about Palestinian Arabs. - Quotation from Moshe Smilansky “We are dealing here with a semi-savage people, which has extremely primitive concepts” — 1914
Activist settler, presented as a supporter of an agreement with the Palestinians, revealing his deep racism.