The new Movement for Black Lives platform describes Israel as a perpetrator of “genocide” against Palestinians. Noah, TLV1’s Gilad Halpern and Times of Israel Ops & Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag discuss the depression that engulfed them after they read it, and how we should navigate this murky water.
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Israel should be proud that this vicious lie-worshipping hate group (the claim that the homicidal felon it turned into a “martyr” was trying to surrender had been clearly disproven by the actual evidence long before 99.99% of the “Hands Up” trash knew Michael Brown existed – the same Justice Department investigation which unearthed a horrific pattern of abuse by the Ferguson PD as a whole concluded in no uncertain terms that the officer was justified in using deadly force) thinks it’s the bad guy.
Dear Folks, as someone who has experienced the growth of such idiocy against Israel firsthand: I have come to look at it this way – any ‘minority’ in the US, NativeAmericans, African Americans, etc., etc., etc., who live in or feel in someway ‘left out’ of the so-called dream of democracy are being herded into a mentality that ANY ‘oppressive’ force or government is the enemy – in the case of AIM (The American Indian Movement) it was tied to the PLO and sent people to train with them on the ‘front lines’… to Cuba as well. The whole ‘social movement for change’ has been co-opted by forces not friendly in the least to democracy, freedoms or Israel, for sure!.. I am and was then appalled! And I am not a Jew… but I am pissed that such ignorance holds sway among any population of human beings – will we never learn, that the cry, “Never Again!!!” is a HUMAN CRY! They are a bloody people the whole lot of this seething hive of scum and villainy!
And it has to be addressed and brought to light for what it is – LIES and political skullduggery!
There seems no issue among most thinking people with recognizing Israel’s regular extra-judicial killing of Palestinians, expanding illegal settlements, home demolitions, large numbers of political prisoners, regular bloody slaughters in Gaza, stopping diplomatic political channels in the UN to achieve political recognition, active work to disrupt any unified political voice for the Palestinians, and yet there seems difficulty accepting these actions are “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,” i.e. “genocide.”
Well-said. To call Israel an apartheid state is actually a favor to the Israeli government. Genocide is a much more accurate term.
The Arabic word for a Black person is Abd. The Arabic word for slave is also Abd. That says it all.