Foreign diplomats to rally with Israeli Arabs marking October 2000 riots

Ha'aretz
Representatives of foreign governments stationed in Israel plan to participate in a rally marking the Israeli Arab riots of October 2000, Haaretz learned on Monday, in a diplomatic first in Israel's history.

The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee has said that the representatives of about ten embassies have approached it over recent days...

During the disturbances, which coincided with the outbreak of the second intifada, Israeli police killed 13 Arab youths....

..."The list includes representatives from ten countries, some of them central and influential."

... in response to a string of anti-Arab decisions and events over the passing year.... laws and regulations that were "racist," such as a law which prohibits the commemoration of the Nakba; a recent national land reform, and its consequences for Palestinian refugees; and the initiative to change the names of Arab towns and villages to Hebrew names. ... the demolition of Arab homes, as well as limiting the jurisdiction of Arab councils... Full story