Tag Archives: Israeli Apartheid

Settler leader endorses boycott of apartheid

Check out this gem from the New York Times’ fawning GQ-like profile of Israeli settler leader Dani Dayan: [Dayan and his wife] built a showpiece home, where the sunken double-height living room is filled with a painting from Vietnam, a … Continue reading

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Beinart’s Blindspot: Israel has always been a non-democratic apartheid state

Beinart’s new book to be brave, important, and blinkered all at once. The biggest problem is Beinart’s false, idealized image of pre-1967 Israel as a “flawed, but genuine democracy.” This doesn’t work because even within the green line Israel has always been a non-democratic apartheid state.

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If you deduct the Israelites, Pharaoh’s Egypt was actually a marvelous country

Bibi Netanyahu says if you deduct the Palestinians, Israel is actually a very equal country

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Boycott law is crossroads for U.S.’s liberal Zionists

Thanks to Bradley Burston for calling the fascist spade a spade. It’s better when Israeli Jewish journalists say this stuff about Israeli society, and we American Jews can quote them, thus making it harder to call us self-haters. Burston: The … Continue reading

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