"Anti-Semitism" in America

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AIPAC Proves It's Power in America

Breaking news: "Anti-Semitism" is used as a smear against people who Zionists hate.

Also: The sky is blue.

 

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boldfart's picture

There have been Israeli Arab members of the Knesset ever since the first Knesset elections in 1949. !

 

So the false news given about the Aparthied State of Israel is just another lie.

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danmanjones's picture

Israel is practicing apartheid according to experts who've studied it...

http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/media-briefs/democracy-goverance-and-service-delivery/report-israel-practicing-apartheid-in-palestinian-territories

https://www.unescwa.org/news/escwa-launches-report-israeli-practices-towards-palestinian-people-and-question-apartheid

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boldfart's picture

Born n South Africa I understand Aparttheitd, worked in Israel for a year I understand Israel. NO way is it Aparttheitd, unlike the state of Saudi where Christians Muslims (of the wrong sects) are deprived of human rights.  You can , and ofted do, do better.

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I guess you didn't visit the occupied territories where Israel practices apartheid, or click either of the links I provided.

 

This is from a report put together by a South African academic group (1st link):

The Executive Summary of the report says that the three pillars of apartheid in South Africa are all practiced by Israel in the OPT. In South Africa, the first pillar was to demarcate the population of South Africa into racial groups, and to accord superior rights, privileges and services to the white racial group. The second pillar was to segregate the population into different geographic areas, which were allocated by law to different racial groups, and restrict passage by members of any group into the area allocated to other groups. And the third pillar was "a matrix of draconian ‘security' laws and policies that were employed to suppress any opposition to the regime and to reinforce the system of racial domination, by providing for administrative detention, torture, censorship, banning, and assassination."

 

The Report finds that Israeli practices in the OPT exhibit the same three 'pillars' of apartheid:

The first pillar "derives from Israeli laws and policies that establish Jewish identity for purposes of law and afford a preferential legal status and material benefits to Jews over non-Jews".

 

The second pillar is reflected in "Israel's 'grand' policy to fragment the OPT [and] ensure that Palestinians remain confined to the reserves designated for them while Israeli Jews are prohibited from entering those reserves but enjoy freedom of movement throughout the rest of the Palestinian territory. This policy is evidenced by Israel's extensive appropriation of Palestinian land, which continues to shrink the territorial space available to Palestinians; the hermetic closure and isolation of the Gaza Strip from the rest of the OPT; the deliberate severing of East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank; and the appropriation and construction policies serving to carve up the West Bank into an intricate and well-serviced network of connected settlements for Jewish-Israelis and an archipelago of besieged and non-contiguous enclaves for Palestinians".

 

The third pillar is "Israel's invocation of 'security' to validate sweeping restrictions on Palestinian freedom of opinion, expression, assembly, association and movement [to] mask a true underlying intent to suppress dissent to its system of domination and thereby maintain control over Palestinians as a group."

 

And this is from the findings of a group from the UN (2nd link):

Khalaf noted that Israel, encouraged by the international community’s disregard for its continual violations of international law, has succeeded over the past decades in imposing and maintaining an apartheid regime that works on two levels. First, the political and geographic fragmentation of the Palestinian people which enfeebles their capacity for resistance and makes it almost impossible for them to change the reality on the ground. Secondly, the oppression of all Palestinians through an array of laws, policies and practices that ensure domination of them by a racial group and serve to maintain the regime.

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sato's picture

dude there are literally two different sets of laws in israel, those for jews and those for arabs. arabs have many marriage restrictions, aren't able to buy or even own land (and land they live on is regularly just taken from them and given to jewish citizens because arabs cannot possibly own the land they live on), nor receive government assistance or loans. hebrew is the only official language with arabic awarded only "special status" meaning public information is only available to jewish citizens, arab citizens have re-entry and other travel restirctions imposed while jewish citizens do not, arab towns inside israel are not considered in public planning for things such as schools and hospitals, israeli arabs cannot receive military training while it's compulsory for jewish citizens, and on and on it goes.

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