NOVANEWS
- It’s South Africa all over again
- Threats to shut down Haaretz and silence any questions
- Whatever you do, make sure you keep on saying that Israel is a democracy
It’s South Africa all over again
Who says the increasingly vocal campaign to highlight Israel’s “normalisation” efforts isn’t gathering steam?
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Threats to shut down Haaretz and silence any questions
An important by Jonathan Cook in The National that reveals the depressing state of intellectual debate in Israel. If you aren’t for the state, get out of the country, so the thinking goes. Dissent is frowned upon, to put it mildly:
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Whatever you do, make sure you keep on saying that Israel is a democracy
Throughout the current Anat Kamm case in Israel – where predictably Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick calls the paper behind the story, Haaretz, a friend of Israel’s enemies and “supporting treason” – Zionists in the West still cling onto the same old myths. Take the New York Forward:
It’s like a mantra. Israel is the region’s only democracy. For Jews. Despite years of human rights reports that finds systemic discrimination against Arabs and others in Israel proper (let along the occupation), it’s still beyond many Jews in the West to acknowledge that Israel isn’t a democracy, it’s an ethnocentric ghetto. |