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…

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Jim 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…

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Why 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…

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Israel 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…

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The ‘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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