American Jews either do not know or refuse to acknowledge that Israel is a settler colonial project. When Israel supporters call on them to attest that Israel has a “moral” army, that should be a wakeup call, to give up the intellectual dishonesty
Avigail Abarbanel says she is relieved Netanyahu won the Israeli elections: “There wll be no more endless cycles of pointless ‘negotiations’ with Israel pretending that some day it will agree to a two-state solution while continually escalating both settlement (colony) building and the maltreament of the Palestinians. Now everyone will see that the Palestinians were right all along and that Israel has never been a partner for negotiations.”
The author left Israel 23 years ago because she never trusted Israel. She always felt oppressed by the atmosphere of suspicion and harshness and its obsession with ‘security’ and control, which has now tragically infected the entire Western world.
Above, a video promoting Israel’s high-tech ORT schools, featuring students of many backgrounds but citing…