RacecardIsrael and Palestine
Is anti-Zionism the same as anti-Semiticism? Can gentiles legitimately criticize Israel? Are Israelis or Zionists "playing the racecard" to quell legitimate opposition?
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Fighting Jim Crow in Israel :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - ch
Fighting Jim Crow in Israel :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - ch: "Fighting Jim Crow in Israel | Mike Whitney | August 12, 2006
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The term "Zionism" confuses many Americans and obscures the deeper issues.
Are we against discrimination and bigotry in all its forms or are we not?
Are we against territorial expansion that violates internationally accepted borders or are we not?
If we are, (and the vast majority of Jews are as well) then we are anti-Zionist. This means that we are committed to universally accepted standards of human rights and national sovereignty.
How can we watch the relentless humiliation of the Palestinians day after day and fail to identify the root cause? This is not a relationship between equals, but the cruel and disdainful behavior of people who believe they are inherently superior to their victims.
Jews would never treat other Jews in the manner they have treated the Palestinians.
Occupation breeds contempt; it is a spawning ground for racism.
How could Israel plunge 1 million Palestinians into darkness, cut off medical and food supplies, block all financial aid, and kill nearly 200 people in their scattershot military operations if they had the slightest regard for them as human beings.
Bigotry strips men of their dignity and humanity; leaving them at the mercy of the wealthy and powerful.
Isn’t that what we’re seeing in Palestine?
The Palestinians have become prisoners of a twisted dogma that is as real as the walls and checkpoints that encircle their Bantustans.
The West Bank and Gaza have become a farrago of gulags stitched together by "Jewish-only" roads where generation after generation languishes in unemployable misery.
These are the inescapable effects of endemic racism.
In America, the same cancer has infected all parts of the body-politic creating a vast network of Muslim-only concentration camps at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Bagram Air Force Base, and countless other spots across the globe. The war on terror has become the flimsy curtain that barely conceals the monster of xenophobia and racial hatred.
The real measure of a nation’s commitment to principle is seen in the way it treats the most vulnerable people. What does this say about Israel, where fully one-half of the population are locked behind a monolithic wall which protects the racial purity of the powerful.
Those who live beyond the wall are not people at all, but a "demographic threat" posing a numeric challenge to the untainted pedigree of the overlords. ..
Fighting Jim Crow in Israel :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - ch: "Fighting Jim Crow in Israel | Mike Whitney | August 12, 2006
...
The term "Zionism" confuses many Americans and obscures the deeper issues.
Are we against discrimination and bigotry in all its forms or are we not?
Are we against territorial expansion that violates internationally accepted borders or are we not?
If we are, (and the vast majority of Jews are as well) then we are anti-Zionist. This means that we are committed to universally accepted standards of human rights and national sovereignty.
How can we watch the relentless humiliation of the Palestinians day after day and fail to identify the root cause? This is not a relationship between equals, but the cruel and disdainful behavior of people who believe they are inherently superior to their victims.
Jews would never treat other Jews in the manner they have treated the Palestinians.
Occupation breeds contempt; it is a spawning ground for racism.
How could Israel plunge 1 million Palestinians into darkness, cut off medical and food supplies, block all financial aid, and kill nearly 200 people in their scattershot military operations if they had the slightest regard for them as human beings.
Bigotry strips men of their dignity and humanity; leaving them at the mercy of the wealthy and powerful.
Isn’t that what we’re seeing in Palestine?
The Palestinians have become prisoners of a twisted dogma that is as real as the walls and checkpoints that encircle their Bantustans.
The West Bank and Gaza have become a farrago of gulags stitched together by "Jewish-only" roads where generation after generation languishes in unemployable misery.
These are the inescapable effects of endemic racism.
In America, the same cancer has infected all parts of the body-politic creating a vast network of Muslim-only concentration camps at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Bagram Air Force Base, and countless other spots across the globe. The war on terror has become the flimsy curtain that barely conceals the monster of xenophobia and racial hatred.
The real measure of a nation’s commitment to principle is seen in the way it treats the most vulnerable people. What does this say about Israel, where fully one-half of the population are locked behind a monolithic wall which protects the racial purity of the powerful.
Those who live beyond the wall are not people at all, but a "demographic threat" posing a numeric challenge to the untainted pedigree of the overlords. ..
