Molly Crabapple's inspirational history of the Bund reminded me of the many ways in which the self-styled "Jewish State" is a monument to hatred (of Jews as well as of Palestinians).
Zionism, at its base, is the belief in Jewish supremacy between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and just like any other ideology that subscribes to racial, national or religious supremacy, it is illegitimate.
This urgently current volume will be widely discussed in the months ahead, with another important book on the same subject, appearing last Fall: Peter Beinart’s Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza.
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There's no way, and there won't be one, to justify or defend what Israel is doing in the West Bank. Under the cover of the war, with the full backing of the IDF.-.They are driving out Palestinian residents and seizing more and more of their land.
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If denial of collective self-determination of a people is a sin of the modern age, as Israeli defenders often repeat, what of the self-determination of Palestinians? Palestinian violence falls and rises when the hopes for autonomy...[are] crushed...
Noura Erakat highlighted the shortcomings of international law in stopping Israel's ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza while raising several steps that the international community can take to intervene.
Every blocked aid convoy, every broken truce, and every rejected peace offer underscores Israel’s true objective: erasing Palestinians from Gaza - part of a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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