"... Tensions were running high in Umm al-Fahm after the Supreme Court authorised the march by the right-wing Israeli group through the mainly Israeli Arab town.......
Some 20 Jewish demonstrators travelled from Jerusalem to Umm al-Fahm under heavy police protection. They arrived in armoured buses, but were only allowed off briefly by police, and the march was largely symbolic, says the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes from the site of the clashes..... The town is considered a stronghold of Israeli-Arab sentiment, and is also where 13 Israeli-Arab protesters were killed during riots as the last Palestinian uprising, or intifada, broke out in 2000. The anger on the streets of Umm al-Fahm is symptomatic of a growing sense of alienation among Israeli Arabs, observers say. Israeli Arabs, who make up 20% of the population, are descended from families who remained in Israel after the war that followed the state's creation in 1948. They are full Israeli citizens, but face widely documented discrimination...."
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