Posts Tagged ‘Ayman Odeh’
Israel has officially declared itself an apartheid state
Earlier this week Israel’s Knesset passed the first reading of the Jewish Nation-state bill. In so doing it made it clear, beyond any doubt, that Israel is now officially an apartheid state. Israel has, of course, always declared itself to be a Jewish state, despite having a 20% non-Jewish minority. But now this has become…
Read MoreThe Demolition of Um al Hiran in Israel’s Negev is why Israel is a racist, settler colonial state
2 Palestinian Israelis killed as Bedouin village is destroyed to make way for a Jewish town No new Palestinian towns have been built since Israel’s creation [Menahem Kahana/AFP] There are those who naively believe that the illusory ‘two states’ will provide a solution to the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. That all that is required…
Read MoreOnly in Israel’s ‘democracy’ could the Prime Minister urge a pardon for a cold-blooded racist murderer
Elor Azaria, Israel’s killer hero is unlikely to do any gaol time Imagine, if you will, a Palestinian who had shot in the head, cold bloodedly, a severely wounded Israeli lying prostrate on the ground. Imagine Benjamin Netanyahu urging clemency. This is a fantasy scenario. Palestinians guilty of resistance, who kill Israeli combat soldiers, which…
Read MoreThe Demolition of al-Hiran, A Bedouin Village in the Israel’s Negev Desert
This is why Israel is still a settler colonial state Only in Israel could the state seriously think of demolishing a village in order to make way for a town containing members of the ruling (Jewish) ethnicity. That state is Israel. According to the Association of the Forty, a Bedouin organisation, there are some…
Read MoreIsraeli Arabs told to Keep Away From Jewish Swimming Pools
The Ugly Face of Israeli Apartheid In Israel as the article from Jonathan Cook below explains, everything from education to land is segregated. Arabs get the left overs. Israel is a state where a plurality of its Jewish population (48%) want Israeli Arabs to be expelled. Nearly half of Jewish Israelis want to expel Arabs,…
Read MoreIsrael is jettisoning even the trappings of democracy
Apologists for the Israeli state always refer to the fact that Arabs have the vote in Israel, as if putting your cross on the ballot paper once every 4 years rectifies all the racist injustices of the previous years. In fact nearly 50% of Israeli Palestinians don’t even vote because it is considered a waste…
Read MoreSupport Israel’s Refuseniks – Tair Kaminer and Tanya Golan
Tair Kaminer, a 19 year old Israeli, has already spent 20 days in a military prison for refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. She is being hauled up again and faces a repeat of the sentence. Joining her is another 19 year old, Tanya Golan. Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton has already…
Read MoreLand – the Basis of Israeli Apartheid
In which other country would one group of citizens be prevented, through planning laws, from building houses, whilst the dominant group is allowed to build? In Israel not only are half the Palestinian villages ‘unrecognised’ and liable to instant demolition, but even those which are recognised are not permitted to expand. Apartheid? Perish the thought.…
Read MoreMeet the Knesset Members from the Joint List
Netanyahu’s Fear Mongering Attack on Palestinians – Rooted in Zionism Palestinian citizens of Israel – and their political parties – agreed on a most basic principle: there should be equality under law and in practice between them and Israeli-Jews. Everything else, the peace process, the two state solution, could fall to the side. Netanyahu’s demographic…
Read MoreThe Right & Far Right Will Almost Certainly Win the Israeli Elections
The Last Fling of Left Zionism Herzog and Netanyahu – Spot the Difference Moshe Kalon of Kulanu – A Likud offshoot The late Shulamit Aloni who founded Meretz and drifted away from Zionism The last time that the Israeli Labour Party (flying under the Zionist Union flag today in alliance with Tsipi Livni’s Hatnuah) won…
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