Arab-Israeli Mix: Low-scale Protests and the Increase in Terrorism Following the Outbreak of the Swords of Iron War

Gadi Hitman and Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer

Contemporary Review of the Middle East, 2025, vol. 12, issue 2, 159-174

Abstract: This article seeks to examine the behavior patterns of the Arab society in Israel since the Israel-Hamas War began in October 2023. The uniqueness of this population is the ethnic-national and religious differences between it and the Jewish majority and their identification with the Palestinians. Theoretically, the behavior patterns will be analyzed using a model of three variables: religion, citizenship, and nationality. This qualitative study, based on interviews, media clips, and public statements by Arab public leaders, identifies several opposing trends: an increase in the scope of terrorism, protests on a limited scale, and the lack of a uniform response by the Arab leadership to the Hamas attack and the war that followed it.

Keywords: Arab society in Israel; terror; protest; leadership; Hamas; citizenship; identity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1177/23477989251318088

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