{"id":149461,"date":"2019-07-14T22:07:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T20:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=149461"},"modified":"2019-07-14T22:07:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T20:07:50","slug":"149461","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=149461","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Israeli court halts park entry ban deemed racist by Arab citizens<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>A court on Sunday ordered a predominantly Jewish town in northern Israel to lift a ban on non-resident visitors to its parks, a prohibition that a rights group said was aimed at keeping Arabs out.<br> The town of Afula denied the edict was racially motivated.<br> In instructing the town to lift the order, Judge Danny Sarfati stopped short of accusing it of racism and cited a legal opinion by Israel\u2019s attorney general, who said municipal parks were public property open to all.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Afula imposed the prohibition a month ago, effectively cutting off access to the 10-hectare (25-acre) park by residents of nearby Arab villages who frequented the popular site.<br>\n\u201cThis [ban] was really to exclude Palestinian citizens from entering the park,\u201d said Fady Khoury, a lawyer with Adalah, an Arab rights group that raised the challenge in Nazareth district court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lawyers for Afula, a city of 50,000 people, contended the restrictions stemmed solely from a desire to reduce overcrowding during the summer months and keep maintenance costs down.<br>\n\u201cWe don\u2019t argue with the law,\u201d Avi Goldhammer, a lawyer for the city, said after the court ruling. \u201cIf the law permits everyone to come inside this park, OK.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Israel\u2019s Arab citizens make up 21% of the population and often identify as Palestinian. They were angered last year by the passage of a \u201cnation-state\u201d law declaring that only Jews have the right to self-determination in Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who supported the bill, said the legislation did not detract from the equal individual rights enjoyed by all of Israel\u2019s citizens.<br>\nOn Saturday, guards inspected identification cards at several entrances to Afula Municipal Park, where families strolled past playgrounds and petting zoos and joggers ran along trails lined with Israeli flags.<br>\nIn the nearby Arab village of Sulem, Shua\u2019a Zoabi said he often brought his children to the park in Afula.<br>\n\u201cThere is no space for our kids to play in our village. 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