Claim that Israeli Arabs are not discriminated against disputed

Anthony Spencer (Letters, Aug 15) asserts in an indignant letter that there is ‘no discrimination of Israeli Arabs’.

This claim is an astonishing one, doubly so given its timing, only a few days after Member of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) Haneen Zoabi’s poignant speech at the Cork Metropole Hotel about the routine discrimination and hostility she faces as a Palestinian citizen of Israel.

In her speech, Zoabi pointed to the more than 30 laws which discriminate against Palestinian citizens in all areas: from land use to housing and education.