Video celebrating Freedom Riders likens Israeli flag to Confederate flag

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Video is by Sana Kassem, producer/director. Thanks to Norman Finkelstein.

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Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
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  1. Potsherd2 says:
    November 23, 2011 at 9:46 am

    In Israel, they have made the star of David into a swastika, painting it on Arab houses and vandalized tombs.

  2. dahoit says:
    November 23, 2011 at 9:48 am

    This analogy between the Stars and Bars and the Israeli flag doesn’t include the Star Spangled Banner,which was also flown at racist rallies and belies the cantonment of northern cities and suburbs into racially divided segregation,while more subtle than southern racism, is and was just as racially inspired.
    A better analogy to me is the Nazi flag,a similar stick figure of a different color,but with the same inclinations as the hated Nazis,and an obvious sign of mental aberration in copying the symbolism of the hated enemy.

    • thetumta says:
      November 23, 2011 at 10:53 pm

      The Israelis have their own flag, I don’t think these comparisons are useful. They seem determined on raising the bar of depravity and very well may succeed. Something they can truly excel in. Let them dig their own graves without sucking anyone else(living or dead) into the nightmare.
      Hej!

  3. annie says:
    November 23, 2011 at 1:58 pm

    of course this makes me cry. great video Sana Kassem.

      • john h says:
        November 23, 2011 at 7:08 pm

        Soon we might all be crying for Israel.

        Not according to your link, which is just a list of what “should” happen; it’s more a reason to cry for the status quo rigidity of both Israel and the US. From the link:

        The fact is that the real motives behind America’s commitment to Israel are moral and ethical.

        They are a reaction to the horrors of the Holocaust, to the entire history of Western anti-Semitism, and to the United States’ failure to help German and European Jews during the period before it entered World War II.

        They are a product of the fact that Israel is a democracy that shares virtually all of the same values as the United States.

        The U.S. commitment to Israel is not one that will be abandoned. The United States has made this repeatedly clear since it first recognized Israel as a state, and it has steadily strengthened the scale of its commitments since 1967.

  4. mudder says:
    November 23, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    It’s a nice encore to Sana Kassem’s video from a year ago: link to mondoweiss.net

  5. seafoid says:
    November 23, 2011 at 4:52 pm

    What a superb video. Israelis have to wake up. It is building into a dreadful car crash.
    You cannot polish the turd of apartheid. You cannot. And when the goys realise what is going on it is going to be a mess. And it is entirely self inflicted.

    I wonder if this sort of thing was what led to the exile in Babylon.

  6. thetumta says:
    November 23, 2011 at 10:31 pm

    I’m sure there are Americans that are appalled that the “Stars and Bars” are being equated with this? Not that their right, it’s just where they find themselves. Many of them have long ago moved on, all on their own in spite of their upbringing. Why antagonize them with this irrelevant side issue?
    They have to dissolve their lose, uncomfortable ancestral ties and be made to pay yet again? Just let the current reality of this video sink in. It speaks for itself. Many of them have no interest in being put through this ringer once again(parents are dead), without any choice in the matter, yet again.
    Many black Americans are not blind to this dilemma, they’ve experienced it in their own friends and families as well.
    Jewish racism is it’s own disaster, leave it on their shoulders. The videos of our somewhat past problems are in black and white, Israel’s are in color?
    Hej! tumta

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