“When a midwife delivers an Arab baby she is asked ‘Did you bring us another terrorist?’ I heard it with my own ears”. Lena Kassem of Doctors for Human Rights on the segregation of Palestinians and Jews in Israeli hospitals.
The Hebron execution of a wounded Palestinian by an Israeli soldier wasn’t a murder, and wasn’t an error either. Because the Palestinian was considered a “terrorist.” An introduction to Israeli Newspeak
Zionism took the myth of the ‘Jewish nation’ from Jewish religious culture. It extrapolated the nationalist stream inherent in Judaism, and made it into an ostensibly ‘secular’ national movement. But the nationalist element depends upon the religious ‘counterpart’ to exist.
Israel tells the world that its citizens have Israeli nationality, but on internal documents it insists that Jews have Jewish nationality. Because it is the Jewish state, and thereby justifies discrimination against non-Jewish nationals who are citizens of Israel.
Jonathan Ofir explains how he, an Israeli expatriate in Europe, came to be so critical of his country. “I came to realise that ‘fighting for my country’ meant something very different than winning ideological and physical battles for the State of Israel. It meant dismantling Zionist propaganda.”
When Teddy Katz dared to uncover the Tantura Massacre of May 1948 in his master’s thesis at Haifa University in 1998, Israeli veterans sued him for his findings and the university acted to suppress the thesis. Still the case lingers. It occurred after the establishment of Israel and speaks to the fundamental crimes associated with the state’s creation.
In discussing the Israeli policy of withholding the bodies of Palestinians shot while allegedly undertaking terrorist actions, several Israeli leaders have stated recently that Palestinians sanctify death and therefore do not grieve their dead as Israeli do. But they are projecting their own reverence for violence on to the victims.
Anti-semitism confirmed the belief that Jews are special, for many Zionists and secular Jews. We are not special. Any human can be brought to the abyss of nationalist absolutism and totalitarianism. Any religion can be applied in a way that accentuates the exclusivist ideological stream. If we let that idea haunt us to the degree of uncontrolled survivalist frenzy, we will be undermining our own future and fulfilling the next doom prophecy.
“Racist, nauseating and reminiscent of dark historical periods” — a question on an engineering exam at Ben Gurion U in Israel likens non-Jewish African refugees to rats
In 1948, the Palestinian mukhtar, or leader of Dawaymeh village, gave a sworn statement to the UN, never fully publicized before, stating that 100s had been killed by Israeli forces there in October 1948, long after the creation of the Jewish state