Israeli authorities deny racism while preaching girls not to date Arab Bedouin boys
 
TEL AVIV - Schoolgirls in a southern Israeli town are taught not to date Bedouins and shown a video called "Sleeping with the Enemy," but the man behind the sex education programme insisted on Tuesday it was not racist.

"I compare this with ocean outings, when the black flags are up, one should not go out. With Bedouins it's the same, they're dangerous," Chaim Shalom, a municipal social worker who runs the programme, said.

The programme has the support of the municipality and the police in Kiryat Gat, a community on the edge of the Negev desert, as well as local public schools, where Shalom gives his presentation.

"They shower the girls with …