Posts Tagged ‘Haneen Zoabi’
It’s time to expel the Zionist ‘Jewish’ Labour Movement from the Labour Party
An anti-racist party should not tolerate a racist affiliate which supports Apartheid In 2004 Poale Zion (the Workers of Zion) changed its name to the Jewish Labour Movement. Like most things the JLM does, it was an act of deception. It sought to put a distance between its Zionist origins and the newly renamed group.…
Read MoreIsrael 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 MoreJim Crow is Alive and Well in Israel
Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second class…
Read MoreThe Last Fig Leaf Hiding the Nakedness of Israeli Democracy Has Been Stripped Away
The very idea of a Jewish state is a violation of the rights of its non-Jewish citizens One of the few things that Zionists use to uphold the pretence that Israel is a democracy is the fact that the Arabs/Palestinians can vote in elections for the Knesset. Now even this is no longer true. it…
Read MoreIsraeli Labour Party Supports Netanyahu’s Attempt to Expel an Arab MK, Basel Ghattas
Basel Ghattas is the latest Arab member of the Knesset to come under attack from the Jewish majority It is one of the boasts of Israel that it is the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’. Arabs can vote goes the narrative, therefore we are a democracy. Of course the idea that a democracy…
Read MorePalestine Solidarity Conference 2017 – The Carthorse Continues on its Leisurely Pace
Conference Strongly Critical of Lethargy Over Anti-Semitism Campaign but Executive Survives with Union Block Vote The Conference had around 300 delegates I’ve often thought that Lowes cartoon description of the TUC as a lumbering carthorse was also a good description of PSC Executive. Its inability to react in a crisis, to map out a strategy…
Read MoreBBC Exclusive: – Germany’s Jewish soldiers who fought in Hitler’s Army
According to the BBC’s logic historians should question the extent of anti-Jewish discrimination in Nazi Germany! In what can only be described as a BBC propaganda piece on behalf of Israel’s claim that there is equality between Jews and Arabs, the BBC today showed a programme’ Israel’s Arab Warriors on BBC Arabic TV. The clear…
Read MoreWhy Israel is not a Liberal Democracy
Israel is the most racist and right-wing state on Earth Introduction The recent Home Affairs Select Committee Report on Anti-Semitism, [see Manufacturing Consent On ‘Anti-Semitism – Modern Day Alchemy – Home Affairs Select Committee Transforms Anti-Zionism into Anti-Semitism] whose primary purpose was to conflate criticism of Israel and Zionism with anti-Semitism, started from the basis that ‘where…
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 MoreThe ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ Suspends 3 Palestinian members of the Knesset and takes steps to expel them
Israel is, as every Zionist propagandist tells you, a democracy. Of course they define a democracy quite narrowly. Basically the chance to vote every few years for a new parliament (Knesset) counts as democracy. The systematic discrimination, the denial of land rights to Israeli Palestinians, the denial of any civil or political rights to the…
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