Editing Xenophobia (section)

==== Israel ====
{{See also|Xenophobia in Israel|Racism in Israel|Anti-Arabism in Israel}}
[[File:02 05 03 Die Arab Sand.jpg|thumb|Graffiti reading "Die Arab [[sand nigger|Sand-Niggers]]!" reportedly sprayed by settlers on a house in [[Hebron]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newtrendmag.org/pictures8.htm |title=NTM Pictures8 – NewTrendMag.org |access-date=27 April 2016}}</ref>]]

According to the 2004 U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for Israel and the Occupied Territories, the Israeli government had done "little to reduce institutional, legal, and societal discrimination against the country's Arab citizens."<ref name="state.gov-2004">{{cite web |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41723.htm |title=Israel and the occupied territories |publisher=State.gov |date=28 February 2005 |access-date=22 July 2010}}</ref> The 2005 [[US Department of State]] report on Israel wrote: "[T]he government generally respected the human rights of its citizens; however, there were problems in some areas, including... institutional, legal, and societal discrimination against the country's [[Arab citizens of Israel|Arab citizens]]."<ref name="USDS2005">{{cite web |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61690.htm |title=Israel and the occupied territories |access-date=1 August 2006 |author=Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor |date=8 March 2006 |work=Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – 2005 |publisher=U.S. Department of State}}</ref> 

The 2010 U.S. State Department Country Report stated that Israeli law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, and the Israeli government effectively enforced these prohibitions.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/nea/154463.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110413173255/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/nea/154463.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 April 2011 |title=2010 Human Rights Report: Israel and the occupied territories |publisher=State.gov |date=8 April 2011 |access-date=29 May 2012}}</ref> Former [[Likud]] MK and Minister of Defense [[Moshe Arens]] has criticized the treatment of minorities in Israel, saying that they did not bear the full obligation of Israeli citizenship, nor were they extended the full privileges of citizenship.<ref>Quoted in {{Cite book |publisher=UPNE |isbn=978-1-58465-327-1 |last=Rebhun |first=Uzi |author2=Chaim Isaac Waxman |title=Jews in Israel: contemporary social and cultural patterns |year=2004 |page=[https://archive.org/details/jewsinisraelcont0000unse/page/472 472] |url=https://archive.org/details/jewsinisraelcont0000unse/page/472 }}</ref>

The [[Association for Civil Rights in Israel]] (ACRI) published reports which documented racism in Israel, and the 2007 report suggested that [[anti-Arab racism]] was increasing in the country. One analysis of the report summarized it thus: "Over two-thirds of Israeli teens believe that Arabs are less intelligent, uncultured and violent.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3480345,00.html|title=Racism in Israel on the rise|date=12 August 2007|website=Ynetnews|last1=Zino|first1=Aviram}}</ref><ref name=bbc>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7136068.stm|title=Israeli anti-Arab racism 'rises'|date=10 December 2007|publisher=BBC}}</ref> The Israeli government spokesman responded that the Israeli government was "committed to fighting racism whenever it raises its ugly head and is committed to full equality to all Israeli citizens, irrespective of ethnicity, creed or background, as defined by our declaration of independence".<ref name=bbc /> Isi Leibler of the Jerusalem Center for Public affairs argues that Israeli Jews are troubled by "increasingly hostile, even treasonable outbursts by Israeli Arabs against the state" while it is at war with neighboring countries.<ref name=mfa>[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2004/1/2003%20Terrorism%20Review 2003 Terrorism Review]. Mfa.gov.il. Retrieved 16 December 2010.</ref> Khaled Diab of ''[[The Guardian]]'' wrote in 2012 that demonisation was a two-way street, with Palestinians in Israel reportedly holding negative stereotypes of Israelis as devious, violent, cunning and untrustworthy.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Khaled Diab |date=19 January 2012 |title=Hacking away at Arab and Israeli stereotypes |url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/19/hacking-arab-israeli-stereotypes |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220420103124/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/19/hacking-arab-israeli-stereotypes%23comments |archive-date=20 April 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en |access-date=8 May 2022 }}</ref>

A 2018 poll by Pew Research Center also suggested there to be particularly widespread anti-refugee sentiment among surveyed Israelis compared to the people from other selected countries. Israeli people also have a long history of discrimination towards Palestinians<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-opposition-to-accepting-refugees-highest-in-west-poll/|title=Israel's opposition to accepting refugees is highest in West — poll|website=The Times of Israel|language=en-US|access-date=4 December 2019}}</ref>