This huge difference between official reactions to Black riots in the United States and to Arab riots in Israel is very telling about the long distance that separates, on the one hand, the increasing acknowledgement by American society and state of the legacy of anti-Black racism on which they have been historically built and the mending process in which they have been engaged for a few decades, with a lot more still needing to be done, and on the other hand, the deliberate blindness of Jewish Israeli society and State to the legacy of anti-Arab racism on which they have been historically built.