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Jul 13, 2011

This essay by Emeritus Professor Dan McGowan: One State with Equal Rights of Citizenship for All

 

This essay by Emeritus Professor Dan McGowan.
 
 

One State with Equal Rights of Citizenship for All

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By Daniel McGowan
Professor Emeritus, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Executive Director, Deir Yassin Remembered

The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent the views of, nor should they be attributed to, these institutions.

Although it is the 150th anniversary of our Civil War (April 1861), ostensibly fought to ensure that America would be one state with equal rights of citizenship for all, most Americans consider it "inconvenient" (if not downright anti-Semitic) to suggest that Israel/Palestine should also be treated as one state with equal rights of citizenship for all.  To express this very American goal is to refute our overwhelming desire to divide Palestine into two states and oppose a 130-year old dream to create a Jewish state in the Holy Land.

The reality itself is "inconvenient."  Within the current borders controlled by Israel (including pre-1967 Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights) there is in fact a single state. The land has one electrical grid, one water system, one currency, one major highway system, one postal service, and one external border.  It has one powerful military; there are some militias like the Druze Border Guards, the Hamas fighters in Gaza, the Fatah policemen in Ramallah, and Jewish settlers in Kiryat Arba, but there is really only one army, navy, and air force.

If you are wedded to creating a Jewish State, it is "inconvenient" to admit that over half the population of Israel/Palestine is not Jewish.  If you claim to opposed apartheid, it is "inconvenient" to point out that there are an unambiguous set of Israeli laws that favor Jews over non-Jews.  This is the essence of political Zionism.  It is a philosophy and a movement based on racism, chosenness, and Jewish supremacism, but it is most "inconvenient" to even whisper these facts, at least in the United States.

The fact is that after 130 years, several hundred billion dollars in foreign aid, thousands of deaths, and persistent ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population, Israel/Palestine is not a Jewish state any more than South Africa was a white state prior to its end of apartheid.  Israel/Palestine is a state controlled by Jews; it is a state where Jews have superior rights (not the least being the right of return); but with over half the population being non-Jewish, it is self-deceiving to call it a Jewish state.

Zionists from both the right and the left refuse to acknowledge this because of their obsession with, and allegiance to, the dream of a pure, or almost pure, Jewish state.  So the extreme right, like Foreign Minister Lieberman, wants to transfer the Arabs and other non-Jews (including children of migrant workers) out of Israel/Palestine.  Others like Dershowitz, Pipes, and Hagee simply want to wall off the non-Jewish areas and call these reservations or Bantustans a "potential" Palestinian state.   Even the most humanitarian Zionists, like Uri Avnery, who would tear down the mammoth apartheid wall (or security barrier), cannot bring themselves to endorse the right of equal citizenship.

One state already exists in Israel/Palestine.  Those who deny it do so blinded by a racist endeavor that should long ago have been discarded along with Aryan supremacy, Catholic supremacy, Tutsi supremacy, and whatever other supremacy forms the basis for discrimination and disregard for basic human rights.  But for most Americans, opposition to Zionism is simply "inconvenient."
 
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Jul 12, 2011

Canada is fertile ground for anti-Semitism, report says

 



Canada is fertile ground for anti-Semitism, report says
July 11, 2011

TORONTO (JTA) -- Canada is fertile ground for anti-Semitism, especially on university campuses, a parliamentary committee has concluded.

After two years of hearings, the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism in a report released last week called on the federal government to do more to fight anti-Semitism in Canada, which it said is rising, due partly to increased hostility toward Israel.

Over 10 days of hearings between November 2009 and February 2010, the coalition's 22 members, consisting of lawmakers from all federal parties, heard from 74 witnesses, including federal and provincial politicians, diplomats, university administrators, academics, chiefs of police, journalists and other interested individuals.

Among its dozens of recommendations, which are not binding on the government, the coalition said that police forces across Canada should be better trained to deal with anti-Semitism; Canada's immigration department should take into account rising international anti-Semitism when designating source countries for refugees; and the Foreign Affairs Ministry should study the United Nations' criticisms of Israel.

It also said that legislators and others need "a clear and concise definition of what anti-Semitism entails."

One major concern of the coalition was Israeli Apartheid Week, an annual event on Canadian university campuses.

"We had got several testimonies from students, particularly Jewish students, who were scared," committee co-chair Mario Silvia, a former Toronto-area member of Parliament, told the Globe and Mail newspaper.

"They were quite fearful of attending classes and going to their campuses because of the fact that they felt they were being targeted for being supportive of Israel." 
 




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"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Mike Santomauro. *Anthony Lawson's Holocaust Video "were the Germans so stupid"... Link: http://tinyurl.com/44nsrco

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Mike Santomauro. Link: http://tinyurl.com/42z9p8o

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German court upholds Holocaust-denying bishop’s conviction

 



German court upholds Holocaust-denying bishop's conviction
July 11, 2011

(JTA) -- A German court upheld the Holocaust denial conviction of a Catholic bishop from a breakaway sect, but lowered his fine.

The Regensburg Appeals Court on Monday lowered the fine for Richard Williamson of the Society of Saint Pius X by several thousand dollars to about $9,000, citing the bishop's financial circumstances, according to reports. German prosecutors had wanted the fine to be increased.

Williamson was found guilty last year of Holocaust denial in a German district court.

Monday's decision can be further appealed.

Williamson, who is British and lives in London, was fined in connection with an interview in Regensburg in late 2008 with the Swedish SVT broadcaster in which he called the murder of Jews in gas chambers during the Holocaust "lies, lies, lies." He also allegedly denied that any Jews were murdered in gas chambers during the Holocaust and insisted that not more than 300,000 European Jews were killed in total.

Holocaust denial is illegal in Germany.

Williamson was one of four bishops rehabilitated by Pope Benedict XVI in January 2009 in hopes of healing a rift between conservative and progressive Catholics. The pope said later that he would not have rehabilitated Williamson if he had been aware of his far-right views.




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...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3pltqg2

"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Mike Santomauro. *Anthony Lawson's Holocaust Video "were the Germans so stupid"... Link: http://tinyurl.com/44nsrco

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Mike Santomauro. Link: http://tinyurl.com/42z9p8o

Start reading DEBATING THE HOLOCAUST in under a minute: http://tinyurl.com/3f8h874

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Jul 11, 2011

Israel appeared on the US terror watch list

 

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Subject: Israel appeared on the US terror watch list

With over 200 Mossad agents arrested on or around 911 (and quietly released about 70 days later under pressure from Israel); and with that country's considerable, repeatedly demonstrated foreknowledge of 911, is it any wonder it initially appeared on the US terror watch list?  Those Mossad agents posing as "art students" living illegally on the 91st floor of the WTC 1 over the summer of 2001 likely had a hand in placing the military-grade nanothermate and other explosives that were detonated that morning, pulverizing three WTC buildings (not just the two hit with electronically-driven military planes). As usual, Israel used the power of its Rothschild-bankster backing to force the US to remove it from the list.  But Watchful Patriots KNOW. 

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