Israeli Apartheid? Look No Further Than This Racist Law
JVL Introduction
One law above all others makes Israel an apartheid state.
This is the law preventing family reunification – for Palestinians. When an Israeli citizen marries a Palestinian from the West Bank or Gaza their spouses are not allowed to live in Israel.
Ostensibly introduced as a short-term emergency security measure during the second intifada in 2003, it is routinely re-ratified, essentially to protect the state’s ” Jewish and democratic character”.
Gideon Levy thunders against the remnants of the Zionist left – Labor and Meretz – about to support its renewal.
For him doing so quite simply marks the end of any pretentions to there being a Zionist left.
The Haaretz editorial on the topic, reposted after Levy’s article below, is no less condemnatory of this racist legislation. “[A]ny version of this law,” it asserts, “justifies describing Israel as an apartheid state, with one law for Jews and another for Arabs”.
This article was originally published by Haaretz on Sun 20 Jun 2021. Read the original here.
Israeli Apartheid? Look No Further Than This Racist Law
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It says a lot that the Israeli Labor Party consistently supports this apartheid. This is the Labor Party with which the UK Jewish Labour Movement is in reality affiliated to. Both are above all Politically Zionist. The Jewish Labour Movement has little in common with our British Labour Party and has politically opposed it in recent years, in reality over Israeli Zionism.
I simply cannot see how anyone can dispute the fact of Israel being a racist Aparthied state. Both it’s Law and it’s actions affirm the fact.
Margaret E. Johnson is right. Israel is the inevitable fruit of the arguably fascist ideology of Zionism. And the Jewish Labour Movement is nothing but an Israeli aircraft carrier dominating the paddleboards and rubber dinghys that make up the rest of today’s craven Labour Party.