Bnei Brak, Israel - Member of Knesset Asking for Criminal Investigation for Racism Against Arabs

Bnei Brak, Israel - Fliers distributed in the Bnei Brak neighborhood of Pardes Katz called on neighborhood residents to refrain from selling or renting houses to Arabs.

"Our homes have become non-Jewish. In Pardes Katz, there are hostile Arabs, not of our people, who have brought to our streets destruction and fear," "we must not agree to an atmosphere so dangerous to our souls and bodies! We cannot allow them to destroy the education of the youth in our neighborhood!" the flier states.
 
The fliers, were printed to censure recent apartment rentals to Arab students studying in nearby educational institutions.

Knesset Member Dov Khenin, who serves as chairman of the Knesset's human rights lobby, received a copy of the flier and said that disease of racism seeping into Israeli culture and he wished to appeal to the attorney general to open a criminal investigation against its authors. "The distributors of this flier violated the law prohibiting racist incitement against Arab students, and it's the duty of the judicial committee to take a tough stand against them," he said.