Israel’s Arabs in fear as politics shifts to the right

Accusation: Arab the poster reads, alongside the image of a smiling young man, Kheir Hamdan, who was shot in the back in Kufr Kana in Israel ’s northern Galilee region while walking away from police after a night-time clash last month. The shooting, captured on CCTV, caused days of unrest in Galilee, which is largely Arab, and prompted accusations that police could have used non-lethal methods to subdue the man. “Because he was an Arab, he was executed,” claims Raouf Hamdan, his father. “They would never do this with a Jew.” High q…