Women,” said Samah Salaime, a social worker who founded the Arab Women in the Center organisation to aid victims in the Lod area. She said Israeli authorities treat the oppression of women as a value in Arab society. “They deal with us as if the blood of the Arab woman is cheaper,” she said. Arabs often accuse the police of being indifferent to Arab crime, so long as Jews are not harmed. “Men know that the Arab woman is now studying more, has more freedom and we have left a lot of men behind who still think that an Arab woman is worthless, that her body is a property that you can harm without being held accountable,” she said.

Source: The Hindu November 08, 2016 19:34 UTC