Palestinian activists and analysts have long described Israeli policies as a form of apartheid, and Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem has compared Israel’s “regime of separation” in the occupied territories to “the Apartheid regime in South Africa”.
43 percent of Latino students and 38 percent of black students go to schools where fewer than 10 percent of their classmates are white, and more than one in seven black and Latino students attend schools where less than 1 percent of their classmates are white.
A recent desegregation order from the U.S. Department of Justice includes a lot of the checkmarks experts say are important for school districts to meet to reach meaningful school integration, but it is also only one school district in a nation of schools that have failed to integrate after Brown v. Board of Education. The U.S. District Court
Critics derided the plan as racist and said it would harm Israel’s image, which has already been under pressure because of its continued settlement activity in the West Bank.
A Palestinian boy takes a photo of graffiti with Hebrew that reads "non-Jews in Israel equals enemies," on a bus in an Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem, Monday, March 24, 2014. Israeli police say vandals have slashed car tires and sprayed a bus with hate
Displacement of black and Latino households was so dramatic, crisis should be seen as a ‘mass migration event’ says lead author of paper
Alma Ponce and her family, daughter Ruby, 10, left, son Heriberto Jr., 5, and husband Heriberto, pose for a photo outside their Woodland, Calif., home. Wells Fargo began foreclosure proceedings on their home, even as the family sought to refinance. (AP/Rich Pedroncelli) The foreclosure crisis that drove approximately 9 million people across
One UN committee member is shocked that “in spite of several decades of affirmative action in the United States to improve the mixing up of colors and races in schools … segregation [is] nowadays much worse than it was in the 1970s.”
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration last week sent a significant delegation to provide testimony to the United Nations on the United States’ progress in implementing a landmark international treaty barring racism and race-based
Sources Population estimates for 2011 collated from Israeli CBS, Palestinian CBS, OCHA and Badil. Maps are illustrative, based on data collated from Israel CBS and OCHA. ID matrix adapted from Helga Tawil-Souri. Additional facts from B’Tselem and Adalah. Population Data. Central Bureau of Statistics, 2012. Statistical Abstract of Israel (accessed on 15 May 2014) […]
In past 60 years, some progress has been made, but education inequities remain endemic, finds UCLA report.
