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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/oxford-union-declares-israel-an-apartheid-state-responsible-for-genocide-18238887

Oxford union stating the obvious that Israel is an apartheid state committing genocide. [/quote]

How would they know! They don’t know Israel and how it’s multicultural with Christians and Muslims living peacefully 100% free as equals! It’s all fake news! Nobody knows what apartheid and Jim Crow is - that was fake too! [/quote]

lol Israel is a Jews state. Non Jews do not have rights. [/quote]

This is wrong. 20 percent of Israel is Muslim Arab. They have their own parties. They are represented in parliament. Israeli Arabs and Bedouins are doing just fine in Israel. [/quote]

They are.  Because they live peacefully there, and are not focused on trying to obliterate their country.  Instead, they benefit from the only first world country in the region, from a free press, functional and non-corrupt gov't services, and democracy.  What a concept.  [/quote]

It takes incredible callousness and cognitive dissonance to make this statement. How insulting to speak of "democracy" when 3/4 of Palestinians were ethnically cleansed (either exterminated or expelled) during the Nakba, when their homes and land were stolen. The remainder are such a minority that they do not threaten majority rule. If the Palestinian Israeli minority grows exponentially, Israel would certainly find a way to prevent them from becoming a majority. Israel's racist "nation-state law" states that self-determination in both Israel and the occupied territories is "unique to the Jewish people." Palestinian Israeli numbers are limited by the "right of return" law that applies only to Jews; not even Palestinians expelled from their homes during the Nakba and never compensated (in violation of UN Resolution 194) can return and claim Israeli citizenship. Also, Palestinians in the WB or Gaza who marry Palestinian Israelis cannot gain residency or citizenship in Israel, so their spouses have to leave. Israel has racist and discriminatory land laws that prevent most of the land being leased or sold to Palestinians and keeps it for the use of Jewish Israelis. As for "free press," you must be aware that Aljazeera is banned in both Israel and the WB, and the IDF kills journalists with almost complete immunity. Palestinian Israelis can be arrested and detained because of their social media posts, although the law does not define what constitutes "unacceptable" free speech, which means that free expression is criminalized. The legal system is grossly unfair to Palestinian Israelis. A racist law was recently passed that allows Palestinian Israelis to be given double the sentence of Jewish Israelis for sexual crimes if the motive is deemed "nationalistic." Ironically, the "nationalistic" rape of Palestinian detainees by the IDF in Israeli prisons is widely defended and even cheered on. Deciding who is held in "administrative detention" is left to the primarily Jewish authorities. Denial of habeas corpus is hardly emblematic of democracy.

Israel is a racist and fascist militaristic state that privileges Jews over everyone else. That is the nature of the beast. It is extraordinarily insensitive to suggest that Palestinian Israelis, who experience systematic and legal discrimination, should be grateful for their marginalized status. [/quote]

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