MK Maha Karakbi Sabah demands the ministry activate an emergency plan to protect Arab staff in Jewish schools

MK Dr. Maha Karakbi Sabah, of the National Democratic Assembly in the Joint List, sent an urgent official letter to the Minister of Education and the Director General of the ministry demanding immediate intervention to tighten protection for Arab teaching staff in Jewish schools and impose disciplinary sanctions on attackers. This came after a racist assault on educator Abd al-Qader and an Arab assistant at the "Hana Senesh" high school in Herzliya earlier this week. The MK emphasized that the pursuit and physical and verbal assault on the teacher, along with racist slurs and the attack on the Arab assistant after they intervened to protect a special education student, is not merely an assault within the unacceptable phenomenon of school violence, but a nationalist racist attack that must be dealt with radically and firmly. She stressed that these attacks derive legitimacy and escalation from the political climate that expects us to become accustomed to superiority and racism, and from the racist and inciting statements and actions that have found cover in the public sphere, warning that contenting oneself with statements of condemnation without deterrent steps constitutes a green light for continued attacks on Arab teachers.