Posts Tagged ‘Be’er Sheva’
This is why Israel, 70 years after ‘independence’ is a settler-colonial state
A Beginner’s Guide to the Unrecognized Villages of Israel If there is one thing Israel fears more than anything it is delegitimisation. That is why Israel hates BDS because it challenges the legitimacy of the Israeli state. All political parties in Israel know that, despite pretensions and its claims to be the only democracy in…
Read MoreWhy Israel is a Settler Colonial State – Colonisation did not stop in 1948
Despite its pretence that it is a Western democracy, Israel is the only active settler-colonial state in the world. It’s not just that it has Administrative Detention (in Ireland this was known as Internment) i.e. indefinite imprisonment without trial, a permanent state of emergency, censorship and a system of segregated schools, employment and residential…
Read MoreJust Another Example of Everyday Israeli Racism – Announcements will no longer be made in Arabic on Be’er Sheva Buses
All it took were a few complaints for the Government’s Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz to act A bus going to Be’er Sheva stops in the Bedouin town of Hura, August 4, 2016. Eliyahu Hershkovitz In Israel Arabic is officially a language alongside Hebrew. However like all things in Israel, equality is more a matter of…
Read MoreThe Death of an Eritrean ‘Infiltrator’
Unnamed Eritrean Refugee – Murdered by Israeli Lynch Mob in Beer Sheva Now that the lynching of an Eritrean refugee has gone viral, the same people who were denounced as a ‘cancer’ by the ‘Culture’ Minister Miri Regev not so long ago, (though she did apologise to cancer patients for comparing them with refugees!) Netanyahu…
Read MoreBanning Cultural Events – A Normal Occurrence in Israel
When it comes to the Cultural Boycott – disrupting Israeli concerts and performances – the usual tosh about art and music not being political, not interfering with peoples’ rights to enjoy themselves, how Israel is such a bastion of opposition culture, is shown by the ban on the film Shivering Gaza in Israel. In Israel…
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 MoreAnother example of why Zionism is a form of Racism
Israeli Jewish Women Living in Gaza Denied Right to See their Families in Israel Zionism is racist? Perish the thought. This is another example of ‘anti-Semitism’ say the propagandists. You’ve probably heard the racist outpourings of Israel’s defenders who compare Palestinians to sub-humans. But in the eyes of the Zionists, the oppressed, the Palestinians become…
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