Posts Tagged ‘Jamal Zahalka’
Why Israel’s Permit System is more sophisticated and controlling than Apartheid South Africa’s Pass System
The permit regime has a chilling effect on day to day life and political activity Israel confiscates solar panels supplying power to village not connected to grid for 50 years When we think of Apartheid, whether Israeli or South African, we think of discrimination, segregation and separation. But the essence of Apartheid was labour control…
Read MoreIt’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 MoreBenjamin Netanyahu Proposes to ‘Swap’ Israel’s Arab citizens in exchange for the West Bank Settlements
The Expulsion of Israel’s Palestinians is a Consensus Policy of Likud and Israeli Labour Making its way through the Knesset is the Jewish State Bill, which removes the status of Arabic as an official language. The Jewish State Bill also defines Israel as a state of the Jewish people. By Jewish people is meant not…
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 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…
Read MoreIsraeli Knesset Rejects Bill to Enshrine Equality in Law
A Palestinian citizen of Israel waves a Palestinian flag during a protest against the police killing of Khir Hamdan in Umm al-Fahm. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org) It should be no surprise that when faced with a choice of enshrining equality in Israel’s Basic Law (the equivalent of a constitutional law) the Knesset voted it down. Not…
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…
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