I spent a day in the Haifa court trying to see a friend who has been detained for two weeks on charges of publishing lines from a poem on Facebook. I can report the State of Israel is functioning as intended.
Israel’s settler-colonial ideological mission not only impacts Palestinians but prevents the country from being a democracy for Jews as well.
The transition from a Jewish state to a democratic state of all its citizens will benefit Jews by ending Zionism’s conflation of Jewishness with a racist settler-colonial project.
To ensure justice and equal rights for all activists must challenge Zionism’s ethnoreligious exclusivity by embracing the Palestinian rejection of Israel as a “Jewish state.”
What would Canada be like if it were a Christian state in the same sense that Israel is a Jewish state?
The shots that killed Yitzhak Rabin were not the opening shots of a civil war – they merely exposed the hidden war that had existed within Zionism since the beginning.
The claim that denying Israel’s “right to exist” is tantamount to seeking the complete annihilation of its (mostly Jewish) people has long sat at the core of Israeli apologia. The Palestinian refusal to recognize a Jewish State is conveniently read as intransigence – a convenient trick from the Israeli box of magic to turn public opinion against them.
After 100 years, the Jewish State has come full circle to comprise all of historical Palestine. As John Kerry notes, the choice in such a case is only between Apartheid or democracy, but he thinks there is a tomorrow. His timeline is wrong.