Communities reject minority groups

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Arab, gay, disabled applicants denied residence in communities built on State appropriated land

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3357690,00.html

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"Arabs, homosexuals, and disabled individuals are denied residence in communal villages due to “social incompatibility."

In order to join one of these 800 communal villages, which are famed for their good infrastructure and educational systems, applicants are required to undergo a series of interviews and tests, after which they are either accepted or rejected by the communal village’s member committee.

Arabs, gays, and single parents are all systematically denied residence in these communal villages, even after successfully completing the numerous tests given by the member committees.

Applicants with physical or mental disabilities and citizens with a criminal record are also likely to be turned away.

“We arrived at the member committee, and were prepared for an interview that would last half an hour tops. We left with gloomy faces two hours later,” said F., a 30-year-old Arab woman who, along with her husband, was rejected by a communal village in northern Israel."

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"“We said that we were used to living together and that we wanted to. We even offered to visit friends on Independence Day and stay indoors on Yom Kippur.

“One of the interviewers said that we had big fantasies and that we were living in utopia, and another said ‘I don’t want your Arab son looking at my daughter in the pool’,” F. said."