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Never before have the so-called “mixed” cities of Israel seen such violent Jewish-Arab clashes as in May 2021. These events have unleashed racist speech, which has been given free rein from the top of the State to the bottom, and particularly in the political and media discourse. Here is an analysis, sourced, detailed, and commented. Twenty years after the massacre of thirteen Israeli Arabs in solidarity with the nascent Second Intifada, this reaffirmation of the superiority of Israeli Jews over their Arab “fellow citizens” has shattered the agreed-upon discourse of “coexistence” and “equality”. According to its new Basic Law, Israel is indeed the “nation-State of the Jewish people”, the only one with the “right to self-determination”.