Posts Tagged ‘Jewish State’
A Jewish, Settler Colonial, State Can Only be a Racist State
Israel is the only Jewish State in the World – it is also the only Apartheid State in the World One of the most familiar Zionist refrains is that Israel is ‘the only Jewish state in the world’. This is a last ditch defence of Israel. However bad Israel might be, whatever it does, it is…
Read MoreIf Israel is ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ why does the Knesset Refuse to Even Discuss a Bill Calling for Israel to be a State of all its Citizens?
As long as Israel is a Jewish state it can’t be a democratic state JAMAL ZAHALKA and Haneen Zoabi. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST) When the three members of Balad in the Knesset proposed a Bill calling for Israel to be a state of all its citizens rather than a Jewish state, all…
Read MoreWhy Israel is an Apartheid State
If this happened in Alabama there would be uproar. In Israel, it’s the norm How often have you heard an apologist for Zionism declare that Israel is a democracy, indeed the only one in the Middle East because ‘even’ the Arabs have a vote. This is of course true but merely possessing a vote in…
Read MoreThe very idea of a Jewish state is undemocratic, a violation of the rights of its non-Jewish citizens
A very interesting article in the New York Times of all papers. I agree with it almost in its entirety. Perhaps the only lacuna is that Joseph Levine doesn’t mention that there is no Israeli nationality, just a Jewish nationality and a myriad of other, quite nonsensical nationalities in Israel. In other words there is…
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 MorePew Research Poll Proves that Israeli Society is the Most Racist in the World
Nearly half of Jewish Israelis want to expel Arabs A very interesting survey of opinion amongst Israeli Jews. There are flaws in the survey, in particular the question as to whether Israel’s Jews wish to live in a democratic society or one ruled by Jewish religious law. Unsurprisingly the 40% of Israeli Jews who define…
Read MorePalestinian Violence Came From Nowhere
A brilliant article by Ha’aretz’s Gideon Levy, who with Amira Hass, is the conscience of Israel. During Operation Protective Edge, when he went to Ashdod, his security minders had to get him away quickly as he was in danger of also being lynched by Israeli right-wingers who don’t go a bundle on freedom of speech.…
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