‘Being Black in America Shouldn’t Be a Death Sentence.’ What About Being Palestinian?
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Veteran Israeli journalist Gideon Levy reports on the George Floyd murder and compares it to the case of Eyad Hallaq:
“The Border Police, the most brutal of all units, knows no other way to overpower a fleeing autistic Palestinian except to execute him.”
As in the United States with the brutal murder of George Floyd, this Israeli “incident” is not the first such case…
This article was originally published by Haaretz on Sat 30 May 2020. Read the original here.
'Being Black in America Shouldn't Be a Death Sentence.' What About Being Palestinian?
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There are two sadnesses here – one is – obviously – the feeling for the victims, whether in the US or Palestine..
The other, however, is for Israeli citizens who have little choice until the Palestinian ‘lockdown’ is transformed/respolved – either to battle against the essence of a home state that shamefully disgraces the memory of the Holocaust, or to resolve their cognitive dissonance through racist acts of denial and mythical distortion.