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Dalal, a prominent Palestinian with Israeli citizenship who made her name as a folk singer, went to the police earlier this month to report online threats made against her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it was Dalal who found herself arrested \u2014 seemingly for posting a Palestinian flag on social media, alongside the religious phrase \u201cno victor but God\u201d, on the day of the Hamas attacks on Israel. She was taken by police from her home town, Nazareth, and held in custody for two days. <\/p>\n

Dalal\u2019s arrest \u2014 and the anger stirred by her post \u2014 has been one of a growing list of incidents since Hamas\u2019s assault that have tested the limits of Israel\u2019s democracy, its commitment to free speech in times of war, as well as the social fabric of its mixed communities, where Jews and Palestinians live side by side as citizens of Israel. <\/p>\n

Still reeling from the most bloody day in the country\u2019s history on October 7, in which 1,400 people were killed, according to official estimates, Israel\u2019s Jewish majority\u00a0has shown little patience with expressions of dissent from Palestinian-Israelis, either about the Hamas attack or Israel\u2019s retaliation. <\/p>\n

Human rights campaigners say scores of Palestinian-Israeli citizens have been arrested, harassed, lost their jobs or faced disciplinary proceedings over statements and social media posts about the war, which has also killed more than 8,005 people in Gaza, according to officials in the Hamas-controlled territory.<\/p>\n

Palestinians caught in the clampdown \u2014 ranging from Dalal, a neuroscientist turned singer, to footballers and screen stars \u2014 claim there is a concerted campaign by rightwing figures in the Jewish Israeli majority to demonise them, stoke nationalist rancour and quash critical voices at a time of war.<\/p>\n

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Singer Dalal, centre, a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship <\/span> \u00a9 Dalal Abu Amneh\/instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While each case is different, the alleged harassment and legal steps have added to the strains in the nation\u2019s mixed communities, and revived questions about the protections for minority rights and freedom of expression under Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s far-right government.<\/p>\n

As traumatised Jewish Israelis grieve those killed in the most deadly attack in the country\u2019s history, which they have compared to 9\/11 and Pearl Harbor, Palestinians are reliving their own traumas that stretch back to Israel\u2019s creation. <\/p>\n

The 2mn Palestinians who hold Israeli citizenship \u2014 about a fifth of the population \u2014 are the heirs of the generation that found themselves inside Israel\u2019s borders after what Palestinians call the Nakba, or \u201ccatastrophe,\u201d of the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Around 5.4mn Palestinians live in the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip.<\/p>\n

Some prominent Israeli Arab political leaders were quick to condemn Hamas\u2019s cross-border attacks, in remarks welcomed by liberal Jewish Israelis. They included Knesset members such as Ahmad Tibi, who denounced \u201catrocities against civilians\u201d. \u201cIn human morality there\u2019s no selectivity, there\u2019s no half morality; murder of children is murder of children,\u201d Tibi said.<\/p>\n

However, other Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, such as Dalal, have been more outspoken in their opposition or outrage over Israel\u2019s declaration of war on Gaza \u2014 and have found themselves the targets of a backlash.<\/p>\n

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Vehicles destroyed in the village of Arara, an Arab town in northern Israel, in a rocket attack allegedly fired from the Gaza Strip<\/span> \u00a9 Yuri Cortez\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not even discrimination, it\u2019s oppression,\u201d said Hassan Jabareen, founder and general director of Adalah, a Haifa-based legal centre focused on the rights of Palestinians. \u201cDiscrimination is between two different groups, but oppression is to treat me differently because I\u2019m Palestinian, to exclude me because I\u2019m Palestinian, to shut my mouth because I\u2019m Palestinian.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dalal made her stand on the day of the Hamas attack, when shock and rage over the assault within Israel was at its most intense. <\/p>\n

The singer, whose full name is Dalal Abu Amneh, authorised her personal assistant to publish the message on Dalal\u2019s Facebook and Instagram pages. Soon after the post went viral, the singer called her lawyer, Abeer Baker, who recalls Dalal saying: \u201cI\u2019m under attack, people are using this sentence and my photo everywhere, calling me a Nazi, threatening me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dalal\u2019s husband Anan Al-Abassi, who works at a hospital in the city of Afula, became a target, with angry Israelis demanding he be sacked. Dalal deleted the post before contacting police to make her complaint and was arrested the same evening, according to her lawyer. <\/p>\n

Dalal, who along with her husband declined interview requests, was released on condition that she make no further statements about the war. An Israeli police spokesman did not return a request for comment but the police have said that the allegations against her included behaviour that might lead to public disturbance, threatening police officers and preventing police from doing their duties.<\/p>\n

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Communal friction between Palestinian and Jewish Israelis has flared during past conflicts between Israel and Hamas, including in 2014 and 2021, when violent unrest spread through Israeli cities with large Arab populations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This time, campaigners say, the backlash against Palestinian-Israelis has been faster and fiercer, although the tensions have not spilled over into violence, as they did in 2021 and have this year in the occupied West Bank. This is possibly because Israeli authorities have made it very clear they will not tolerate \u201csolidarity\u201d protests or pro-Palestinian messages of dissent. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any communication between the sides,\u201d Daniel Seidemann, an Israeli attorney focusing on geopolitics in Jerusalem, said of the open divide in the country. \u201cWe\u2019re unaware of what they\u2019re thinking and the other way around.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israeli police said earlier this month that they would reject permits for demonstrations in support of Palestinians in Gaza. A spokesman said that should anyone hold a protest in favour of a \u201cNazi terrorist organisation that committed a Holocaust\u201d, the police would \u201corganise a bus for them to the Gaza Strip\u201d. <\/p>\n

Adalah, the legal centre, said it was monitoring 99 cases of complaints filed against Palestinian students in Israeli universities for social media posts, which it said had resulted in dozens of disciplinary hearings or suspensions. The group also said it was monitoring 161 criminal procedures Israel-wide relating to speech crimes. <\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s attorney-general\u2019s office on Sunday announced it had filed four indictments against Palestinian-Israeli citizens for \u201cinciting terrorism\u201d and other charges.<\/p>\n

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Maisa Abd Elhadi, an actress, was arrested after making a pro-Palestinian social media post<\/span> \u00a9 Tim P. Whitby\/Getty Images\/Red Sea International Film Festival<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The posts that resulted in indictments, by the attorney-general\u2019s account, broke the law by praising or encouraging violence or Hamas itself. <\/p>\n

On Tuesday police in Nazareth arrested Maisa Abd Elhadi, a Palestinian-Israeli actress, over an Instagram post featuring a tractor breaking through Israel\u2019s security barrier with Gaza under the words: \u201cLet\u2019s go Berlin style\u201d. After her arrest Israeli media published a picture of her, apparently taken by police, which showed her handcuffed and standing under an Israeli flag.<\/p>\n

But Palestinian-Israelis and human rights campaigners say that many or most of the remarks that triggered harassment or legal action were nonviolent statements. In many cases people detained were released without charges. <\/p>\n

They say that many of the cases were flagged to the authorities by Jewish Israelis monitoring Palestinians\u2019 social media accounts for pro-Palestinian content, posts with Palestinian flags, or ambiguous slogans that might be interpreted as support for Hamas. <\/p>\n

Lubna Tuma, a human rights lawyer, said the university disciplinary procedures she had seen were triggered by Israeli students submitting a complaint. Telegram accounts also comb through Palestinians\u2019 social media posts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe environment is super, super tense and people are really fearful,\u201d said Diana Buttu, a Palestinian-Israeli lawyer and activist. \u201cThe state coupled with these vigilantes comes after us, and there\u2019s nobody to protect us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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