A senior Israeli minister publicly branded Arab society inherently violent by cultural code.

Evidence

Israel’s minister of public security said in a radio interview on October 7, 2019, referring to the Palestinian society in Israel, that “the Arab society is very, very and another one thousand times very violent… . it is [their] cultural code.” — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 467

Categorization

• SEED: Concrete contemporary example for an article on how political elites essentialize an out-group’s alleged violence as ‘cultural code’ to authorize state repression.