Why it matters to call it apartheid
JVL Introduction
Liberal Zionists still rebel at the use of the word “apartheid” in relation to Israel.
For some it is a distraction, for others it “besmirches” Israel.
The truth is, Israel besmirches itself.
As Philip Weiss points out, every day brings another story about the racism in Israeli government and society.
And if J Street finds the apartheid label a distraction, Haaretz does not.
It is now a constant presence in Israeli descriptions of their own society.
As Carolina Landsmann, one of many writers cited says: “In the so-called ‘Jewish Democracy,’ a big majority of Zionist Jews favour Apartheid”; and she describes an extremist society in which hatred of Arabs is the glue holding the place together.
Only 45 percent of Jews think it’s OK for Palestinians and Jews to live in the same building…
This article was originally published by Mondoweiss on Tue 14 Jun 2022. Read the original here.
Writers in Israel’s leading paper decry ‘apartheid’ — as liberal Zionist leader calls it a distracting ‘label’
Liberal Zionists in the U.S. have helped enforce a red line in the mainstream discourse against using the term “apartheid” to describe Israel.
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Remeniscent of defining the ‘liberal left’ in GB; a ‘liberal leftie here is a person who reads the Guardian but has nothing but contempt for Socialism, Jeremy Corbyn & the Working Class.
One reason that the term ‘apartheid’ may be important is that whilst discrimination and prejudice exist in all countries, a government system of ‘apartheid’ is rather rare and evokes far more condemnation and resistance. As it should.
‘Today it is the deputy minister saying, “If there was a button I could press that would take all the Arabs and put them on a train to Switzerland, I would.”’
Put them all on a train? Is this person really unaware of what he/she is saying or, chillingly, is it deliberate?
Alarming that young Israelis subscribe to this malign policy.
As a teenager in the 1950s I used to wonder what it would be like to wake up one day and find the land where I lived had been given to someone else. My house didn’t belong to me and my parents and siblings. What trauma would I have experienced. What effect would it have on my future. I also wondered what went though the minds of the delegates to the UN who voted for this to happen. What did they expect would happen. Did they believe the people who had lost the land would simply shrug their shoulders and accept their losses. If the same thing had happened in West Yorkshire where I come from the same struggle for justice would have occurred. In fact, the same violent struggle wound have happened anywhere in the world. There is no end in sight to this conflict . I hate to say never but it looks that way.
Well it seems Facebook does not like this article I just got a ban on Facebook for sharing the truth.