Posted on 03/15/2021 5:05:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
“Israel is an apartheid state, Israel is a racist state” will again be trumpeted to the world on March 14-21, 2021, this year’s Israel Apartheid Week (IAW).
This IAW, a familiar event since 2004, has been organized by Palestinian groups supposedly to demonstrate “against racism, colonialism, and apartheid.” But the organization, and its offspring the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) formed in 2005, are less concerned to protect the rights of Palestinians than, with its overtones of anti-Semitism, to advocate the elimination Israel as a Jewish state. Mike Pompeo, then Secretary of State, declared on November 19, 2020 that the Palestinian-led BDS was anti-Semitic, and that the U.S. would cut support to any group or organizations participating in it. Any objective assessment of the IAW would indicate it is guilty of three Ds: delegitimize Israel, double standards regarding it, demonization. It does not pay equivalent attention to the treatment of abused minorities suffering from racism elsewhere, currently in Myanmar, Iran, China, and Syria.
The apartheid analogy is used not only to refer to Israel’s policies in the West Bank, but also extended to apply to the treatment of Arab citizens in the state of Israel. The argument is that Israel can be classified as a settler colonial society, akin to the South African apartheid regime. Various assertions are made to support the case: the system of identity cards, the growth of Israeli settlements, the West Bank barrier, Israeli military checkpoints, and disparities of access to land and resources.
First, while admitting disagreements over the Israeli Law of Return, laws relating to security and land, citizenship, and the nation-state Bill of 2018, it is factually inaccurate to sustain the analogy for two reasons: the West Bank and the Gaza strip are not part of sovereign Israel;
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Never was. It’s liberal hate of the country.
<< organized by Palestinian groups supposedly to demonstrate “against racism, colonialism..” >>
Arab terrorists co-opting the language of the Western Left has been an effective propaganda tool for them.
The phony-baloney Two State Solution is apartheid from beginning to end.
What you described isn’t colonialism though.
This is Israel’s GFYS week. So to all who observe IAW, GFYS, ESAD, and RIH.
To all my FRiends, celebrate by buying some Israeli products. We make wines that rival the French, and Sabra and Tribe humus are especially delicious after watching those disgusting BDS videos that smack of fascism. Elite makes the only freeze-dried instant coffee that tastes as good as Maxwell House’s Taster’s Choice, or close to it. Can’t imagine anything better. Chocolates from the same company are world class. Support the girl-cott in honor of Israeli GFYS week. Fund a tree-planting in honor of Independence Day, while you’re at it. Say GFYS to a leftard. Let them experience the holiday, too.
Iran-Backed Houthis Linked to Massacre of African Migrants After Biden Lifted Terrorist Designation
President Joe Biden lifted the terrorist organization label for the Iranian-backed Houthi militia Ansar Allah in Yemen a few weeks ago.
Now the jihadi group has been blamed for horrendous crimes against African migrants in the country.
A leader of the migrant community in the Yemeni capital on Saturday called for an international probe into a fire that tore through a detention center last week, killing at least 44 people, mostly Ethiopian migrants.
In a news conference in Sanaa, Othman Gilto, who heads the Ethiopian community, blamed “negligence” by the Houthi rebels who control the capital, as well as the United Nations, which has aid agencies present in Yemen. The fire also injured more than 200 people, he said
Last month, the Biden administration removed Iran’s proxy Houthi militia from the list of designated terrorist groups, reversing a decision taken by the outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The move was among a series of steps taken by the Biden White House to appease the Iranian regime into settling for an Obama-style nuclear deal with Washington.
While the Biden State Department exonerated the Houthis, the jihadi militia’s official motto says everything you need to know about them: “Allah is Greater, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam.”
U.S. homeland security professionals refer to these as "extra-continental" migrants and regard them as a potential national security risk that separates them from the average Spanish-speaking migrant. That's because home nations like the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Pakistan brim with terrorist organizations and atrocity-committing tribal militias.
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