Israel: It’s apartheid, not ‘democracy’, these protesters really want to save
JVL Introduction
Orly Noy is the chair of B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
Hers is a voice from the heart of the Israeli human-rights community, endorsing the reservations expressed by others about the massive waves of protest on Israel’s streets.
While we can all sympathise with the revulsion at the new government, this is not, as Noy makes clear, a “struggle for Israeli democracy”.
It is, rather, aiming “to turn the clock back far enough so that the apartheid regime in Israel can once again be marketed as a functioning democracy” in which Palestinians, as ever, are at best second-class citizens or, at worst, extreme objects of military occupation and arbitrary oppression.
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Israel: It's apartheid, not 'democracy', these protesters really want to save
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It’s ethnic cleansing not apartheid!