How interesting that the equation Zionism is racism, such a bloody bone of contention at the U.N.,is now cropping up in the work of Jewish anti-Zionists. 2 examples I've seen in the last month:
--Avigail Abarbanel, a psychotherapist born in Israel, living in Australia, writes on electronic intifadah that Zionism is a "fear-based, racist and
immoral ideology."
--Writer Joel Kovel, quoted in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs: “Is Zionism racism?” Kovel asked his audience, answering, “Is the Pope Catholic?”
I know, that's just two examples. In Journalism 101, we learned that "a trend" requires 3 examples. And no, I'm not going to be the third. (Don't know enough about it to make such a damning statement.)
By the way, Kovel is "dialogue"-ing with Morton Klein of ZOA, the dual loyalty enthusiasts, "on the Israel/Palestine Dilemma," at Community Church in N.Y., on June 8, 1-3 pm. Ought to be a barnburner. I hope this is genuine? Yes here is the link. Wow, this is something-- that Morton Klein is sharing a stage with Kovel. It is a sign of the left's growing power. Klein knows he needs to address us. And four days later, according to their new mouthpiece, Walt and Mearsheimer are going to be at Hebrew University. Some day these guys are going to be on "60 Minutes."
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here's your third example:
Though the Israelis speak Hebrew and dwell on a land they associate with their collective past, the ‘new Jew’ failed in transforming himself into an authentic humanist. Israel is an urban capitalistic society that maintains its existence at the expense of others. The bond to soil and nature didn’t last long. If this is not enough, Israelis didn’t really manage to divorce the dialectic of negation. Israel has never become a state of its citizens. It is still a racist state that employs racially orientated immigration laws.
gilad atzmon
The point is that Zionism is just Jewish colonialism, in a very ordinary way similar to the pieds noirs in Algeria, the Afrikaaners in South Africa. Zionism isn't racism, any more than South Africa 'was racism', but racism has been a central and essential part of each of these.
Morton Klein?
http://www.israelipalestinianprocon.org/Biosind/mortonklein.html
Will you report for us nitwits?
Guy Grossman of Courage to Refuse stunned an audience at Harvard when he told them that he believe in a racist Jewish State: link to philipweiss.org
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BTW, Otto, I would argue that the colonialist imperialism of the Zionist virtual colonialist motherland (Judonia) represents the purest and most dangerous form of colonialist imperialism.
If scholars in history and government took Jewish studies more seriously, studying Judonia would be one of the major areas of ongoing academic research in these fields.
If you are interested, you should start with link to members.aol.com
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Arab Cabinet Pick Stirs ‘Zionism-Racism’ Debate
Rice, on Mideast Tour, Makes Time for Hardliner Lieberman
Orly Halpern | Fri. Jan 19, 2007
Jerusalem – When Knesset member Esterina Tartman opened her mouth on Israel Radio last week to attack the Labor Party for naming Israel’s first-ever Muslim Arab Cabinet minister, she did more than just rattle Ehud Olmert’s shaky coalition. She opened up a raging national debate on the taboo topic of where Zionism ends and racism begins.
“What [Labor leader] Amir Peretz did this morning is to swing an enormous ax at the tree called Zionism,” said Tartman, a member of the right-wing Yisrael Beitenu party, referring to Peretz’s January 11 designation of Labor lawmaker Ghaleb Majadleh as minister of science, sports and culture. “We need to drive out and destroy this evil from our environs…. The State of Israel is a Jewish state that is supposed to be ruled by Jewish values, with a Jewish regime and Jewish sovereignty.”
Tartman’s comments sparked outrage across the political spectrum from politicians and commentators who called her views racist and compared them to the outlawed doctrines of the late Meir Kahane. “The Zionism of Herzl, Jabotinsky and Begin always advocated the integration of Arabs who are loyal to the state in all of its institutions,” said Knesset member Michael Eitan of the opposition Likud party. Eitan demanded a formal Knesset debate on Tartman’s “racist comments.” “No believer in equality and democracy can accept them being on the agenda,” Eitan said.
But after a week of furious public debate, it wasn’t clear which side was winning. Outraged Labor Party lawmakers demanded an emergency party meeting to discuss quitting the coalition if Tartman’s party and its fiery leader, Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman, weren’t ejected. But no such meeting was scheduled. Yossi Beilin, head of the left-wing Meretz party, called on the attorney general to open a criminal investigation under Israel’s anti-racism laws. But no probe was announced.
In fact, Majadleh’s nomination wasn’t even brought to the Cabinet for approval when it next met, January 14. Under the Kadima-Labor coalition agreement, Labor is entitled to name the science minister, subject to Cabinet approval. The prime minister, however, sets the Cabinet’s agenda.
In the interim, a string of similar incidents has riveted national attention, training a spotlight on the depth of Israel’s divisions. A homemade video that aired on national television this week showed a Hebron settler verbally abusing a Palestinian girl with shockingly crude language — something that a police representative said was commonplace in the troubled West Bank city. The incident was recorded by a relative of the Palestinian teen, Raja Abu-Aysheh, 18, with a video camera given to the family by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, in order to document settler abuse. Settler leaders said they would begin to give out cameras so that their side of the story could be told in a similar fashion.
Meanwhile, leaders of a settler-led party, the National Union, announced the formation of a new youth movement to educate secular Jewish youth toward such “national” values as annexing the West Bank and Gaza, creating a Palestinian state in Jordan and stripping West Bank and Gaza Palestinians of political rights. National Union Knesset member Aryeh Eldad said he is frequently approached by high school students who favor “transfer” but are uncertain how to express their views. “I want to teach them the Land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel, not to Arabs,” Eldad said.
And in the mostly Orthodox town of B’nei Brak, just outside Tel Aviv, fliers appeared on walls in recent months, announcing a religious ban on renting rooms to Arabs, mostly from nearby universities.
Israeli Arabs responded with a mixture of alarm and anger. “If these racist ideas got here, it shows that it is spreading throughout society, that the Lieberman ideology is gaining momentum and it’s very worrying,” said Ragheed Haddad, president of the law school’s Arab student union at the Ramat Gan Law School.
Knesset member Dov Khenin of the Arab-Jewish Hadash Party appealed to the attorney general to open a criminal investigation against the flier’s authors. That has yet to happen.
“We have an illness of racism in Israeli society,” said Khenin, who serves as chairman of the Knesset’s human rights committee. “Like any illness if you don’t treat it, it grows and spreads. That’s the situation now.”
But while liberal protests mounted over the signs of ethnic tension, public comment on mainstream news Web sites appeared to be running about 3-to-1 against the liberals and in favor of Tartman and her allies.
Ironically, the political maneuver that touched off the storm, the naming of a new science minister, was a direct result of Tartman’s party joining the coalition government last fall. The entry of Lieberman, who is known for his anti-Arab rhetoric, prompted then-science minister Ophir Pines-Paz to quit the Cabinet in protest. Majadleh, a Labor backbencher, was one of the few party leaders to support Pines-Paz’s decision.
“Lieberman wants a Jewish country with no Arabs,” Majadleh then said. “So we cannot legitimize him by sitting with him.”
Last week, however, Majadleh was calling his Cabinet appointment a “milestone” for Israeli Arabs and a rebuke to Lieberman.
Even more ironic, Majadleh’s nomination drew criticism from left as well as from right. Pines-Paz himself called the appointment a “stinking maneuver” by Peretz to woo Arab voters in advance of a May party primary. Some critics said that Majadleh, a high school graduate, was unqualified to oversee Israel’s science and technology budgets.
As for Lieberman, Tartman’s party leader, he said that he had “nothing against” a Muslim Arab joining the Cabinet, but he denounced the timing as a political maneuver that proved Peretz was unfit to serve as defense minister. He did not, however, criticize Tartman.
Lieberman’s standing got a boost this week when the visiting American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, found time to meet with him during a brief visit to the region, just two days after Tartman had made her statements. Such a meeting is not part of the standard protocol for Rice’s visits here.
It is that sort of legitimization from above, critics say, that hurts efforts to combat ethnic incitement. “In the past, these people would be thought of as extremist,” said Fred Lazin, chair of the politics and government department at Ben-Gurion University. “Now they aren’t even being asked to leave the government.”
Fri. Jan 19, 2007
racism is lite zionism.
somebody say "zionits are racist thugs"?
CREAM OF THE JEWISH CROP:
VIDEO: Jerusalem camera catches brutal attack by Jewish teens on Arab youths
By Uri Blau, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Pisgat Ze'ev, Jerusalem
Dozens of Jewish teens were caught on camera outside a Jerusalem mall carrying out a brutal attack on two Arab youths on Holocaust Remembrance Day earlier this month.
Some two weeks ago, indictments were filed against 11 youths, eight of them minors, suspected of having perpetrated the attack in the Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood. According to the indictment, the boys responded to a message on the ICQ instant messaging internet program calling for "Jewish blood" to "put an end to Arabs running around the Pisga." According to the indictment, the Jewish teens gathered outside the local shopping center armed with knives, sticks and bats and attacked two Arab teens, aged 16 and 18, from the nearby Shuafat refugee camp.
One of the Arab youths, Ahmed Abu Camal, was stabbed in the back, but managed to escape. His friend was described by one of the suspects during questioning as a "trampoline and a punching bag." The suspect recounted how "everyone jumped, kicked and stepped on him."
In the video footage, a group of teens can be seen waiting outside the shopping mall. At around 11 P.M. the two victims can be seen walking past the group. After a short dialogue, the video shows one of the victims being hurled into the street, pushed toward the railing and then viciously attacked.
In his testimony, the victim told police officers that "a group of children, numbering more than 80, pounced on us and they had bats and knives in their hands and they attacked us. All I remember now is that I passed out and woke up in the hospital."
The video shows Abu Camal fleeing the scene chased by a number of Jewish teens. In a recent conversation, he said "when I passed by the entrance there was a large crowd of young men who just stood there while I walked between them on the shoulder of the street. I heard them talking among themselves and they said something like 'are those them? Are they them?' and then someone stuck a knife in my back and knocked me down and continued to beat me. One guy bit my ear. I don't know how I managed to get up, but I got up and ran away."
The video footage shows the Jewish teens fleeing the area after a car passes by. The unconscious Arab teen can be seen left on the side of the road until he is taken away by what appears to be shopping mall security staff.
On Sunday, the Supreme Court decided to release all the suspects that remained in custody to house arrest. Attorney Yehuda Shushan, who represented three of the suspects, said "there is no doubt that this incident must be dealt with from an educational point of view, but at the same time each suspect should be judged according to his individual level of involvement. It is doubtful that those who were present but did nothing should be charged, otherwise 200 indictments should be filed against each child that was at the scene."
punishment: education and home time.
Zionism is a "fear-based, racist ideology?" Aaargghh!
Shocking! Repulsive! Unbelievable! Man Bites Dog!
How about the thousands of Israelis civilians killed or wounded in suicide bomb attacks by the po' Palestinians? Did you forget that? You are all a bunch of hypocrites.