The Video That Got Me Fired: Israel IS An Apartheid State
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Here's the video that got be censored, fired, and canceled by Next Star media, which owns The Hill and Rising, a show I've been a weekly contributor to for three years.
Thanks to Breakthrough News for making this video with me and actually being an independent and uncensored media outlet. @BreakThroughNews
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Intro
the following monologue is something
that I wrote delivered and recorded at
the hill it was then censored and I was
then canceled and fired
representative Rasheeda sleeve has been
condemned by some over comments she made
about Israel here's CNN's Jake Tapper
reporting on what the Michigan Democrats
said and the response it prompted
democratic congresswoman Rashida Talib
of Michigan facing criticism today from
what several of her Jewish colleagues
have deemed anti-semitic comments here's
what to leave the first
palestinian-american woman to serve in
Congress said at a virtual event
yesterday
I want you all to know
that among progressives it has become
clear that you cannot claim to hold
Progressive values
yet back Israel's apartheid government
and we will continue to push back and
not accept
this idea that you are progressing
Progressive except for full esteem any
longer
the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League
Jonathan Greenblatt slammed the comments
saying that Israel does not have an
apartheid government and said that she
should not be imposing a quote litmus
test in a tweet saying quote Talib tells
American Jews that they need to pass an
anti-zionist litmus test to participate
in Progressive space some of talib's
Jewish colleagues in Congress agreed
Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman
Schultz called her comments quote
outrageous and quote nothing short of
anti-Semitic Debbie Wasserman Schultz is
right it is outrageous it's outrageous
that Rasheeda sleep is getting attacked
sleep is merely stating that Israel is
an apartheid state and that people who
claim to have Progressive values cannot
support an apartheid state no matter how
loose a definition of progressive we use
it certainly excludes supporting a
racist apartheid system what's
outrageous is attacking Talib for
pointing out that Progressive except for
Palestine is an intrinsically
contradictory position what's also
outrageous is that the Anti-Defamation
leagues Jonathan Greenblatt would claim
that Israel is not an apartheid
government what's outrageous is that
that Jake Tapper would accept
greenblatt's judgment as the truth and
not propaganda that needed to be pushed
back against I understand that
Facts
Greenblatt and perhaps Tapper feel like
Israel is not an apartheid state but
unfortunately for them apartheid isn't
about your feelings it's about facts in
1973 the U.N defined the crime of
apartheid as any inhuman acts committed
for the purpose of establishing and
maintaining Domination by one racial
group of persons over any other racial
group of persons and systematically
oppressing them in 1998 the Rome statute
of the international criminal court
defined apartheid as inhumane acts of a
character that are committed in the
context of an institutionalized regime
of systematic oppression and Domination
by one racial group over any other
racial group or groups and committed
with the intention of maintaining that
regime these inhuman acts include among
others infliction upon the members of a
racial group or groups of serious bodily
or mental harm by the infringement of
their freedom or dignity or by
subjecting them to torture or to cruel
and human or degrading treatment or
punishment by arbitrary arrests and a
legal imprisonment of the members of a
racial group or groups any legislative
measures and other measures calculated
to prevent a racial group or groups from
participation in the political social
economic and cultural life of the
country and the deliberate creation of
conditions preventing the full
development of such a group or groups in
particular by denying to members of a
racial group or groups basic human
rights and freedoms including the right
to leave and to return to their country
the right to a nationality the right to
freedom of movement and residence the
right to freedom of opinion and
expression and the right to freedom of
peaceful assembly and Association I'd
encourage Jake Tapper to look this up
sometime here are just a few examples of
Israel's apartheid policies the law of
Return of 1950 allows any Jew which
means anyone with one Jewish grandparent
the right to return to Israel the right
to move to Israel and automatically
become citizens of Israel it gives their
spouses that right too even if they're
not Jewish though if they're Palestinian
that's another issue entirely
Palestinians of course lack that right
the Israeli citizenship law of 1952
deprived Palestinian refugees and their
descendants of legal status the right to
return and all other rights in their
Homeland it also defined Palestinians
present in Israel as Israeli citizens
without a nationality and group rights
these laws together obviously fit into
the international Criminal Court's
apartheid criteria more recently the
nation-state law established that the
Fulfillment of the right of national
self-determination in the state of
Israel is unique to the Jewish people it
demoted Arabic from an official language
to a language with special status it
also stipulated the state views Jewish
settlement as a national value and will
labor to encourage and promote its
establishment and development these are
just some of the reasons that human
rights organizations have declared
Israel an apartheid state al-haq almezen
center for human rights adala the legal
center for Arab minority rates in Israel
adamir prisoner support and Human Rights
Association Human Rights Watch and
Amnesty International have all
documented Israeli apartheid policies
Israel's own human rights organization
but selam has declared the Israeli
regime enacts an apartheid regime bet
Citizenship
selum divides the way Israeli apartheid
Works into four areas land Israel Works
to judaize the entire area treating land
as a resource chiefly meant to benefit
the Jewish population since 1948 Israel
real has taken over 90 percent of the
land within the green line and built
hundreds of communities for the Jewish
population citizenship Jews living
anywhere in the world their children and
grandchildren and their spouses are
entitled to Israeli citizenship in
contrast Palestinians cannot immigrate
to israeli-controlled areas even if they
their parents or their grandparents were
born and lived there Israel makes it
difficult for Palestinians who live in
one of the units it controls to obtain
status in another and has enacted
legislation that prohibits granting
Palestinians who marry israeli's status
within the green line freedom of
movement Israeli citizens enjoy freedom
of movement in the entire area
controlled by Israel and may enter and
leave the country freely Palestinian
subjects on the other hand require a
special Israeli issued permit to travel
between the units and sometimes inside
them and exit abroad also requires
Israeli approval political participation
Palestinian citizens of Israel may vote
and run for office but leading
politicians consistently undermine
legitimacy of Palestinian political
Representatives the roughly 5 million
Palestinians who live in the occupied
territories including East Jerusalem
cannot participate in the political
system that governs their lives and
determines their future I was born in
New York City my great-grandparents and
the family before them were from Eastern
Europe I could move to Israel today buy
a house get a job travel around with no
problem so could Jake Tapper and
Jonathan Greenblatt but a Palestinian
like rashided sleep can't even visit her
family home in what is now Israel this
Israeli Officials
demographic tension is recognized by
Israeli officials and politicians who
have described their own country as an
apartheid state former Attorney General
Michael Ben yair wrote in 2002 we
established an apartheid regime in the
Occupy territories immediately following
their capture that oppressive regime
exists to this day
the Hava galon former chair of Israel's
Moretz party said in 2006 Israel was
relegated to the level of an apartheid
state in 2007 Israel's former education
Minister shulamit aloni wrote the state
of Israel practices its own quite
violent form of apartheid with the
native Palestinian population in 2008
former environment Minister yossi sarid
said what acts like apartheid is run
like apartheid and harasses like
apartheid is not a duck it is apartheid
in 2015 former Mossad Chief Maier Dagan
said President Pena netanyahu's policies
are leading to either a bi-national
state or an apartheid state even
Israel's prime ministers have used the a
word in a recently published 1976
interview assassinated Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin said if we don't
want to get to apartheid I don't think
it's possible to contain over the long
term a million and a half more Arabs
inside a Jewish state
in 2007 yet another prime minister who
Omer warned if the day comes when the
two-state solution collapses and we Face
a South African style struggle for equal
voting rights then as soon as that
happens the state of Israel is finished
prime minister Ehud Barak said in 2010
as long as in this territory west of the
Jordan River there is only one political
entity called Israel it is going to be
either non-jewish or non-democratic if
this block of millions of Palestinians
cannot vote that will be an apartheid
state but there is no other standard
more universally respected in defining
apartheid not the U.N not the
international criminal courts Not Human
Rights organizations not Israeli Prime
Ministers than the people of South
Africa who lived under the system of
Apartheid
South Africa
after all apartheid is an Afrikaans word
It Means A Partners it was the official
policy in South Africa from 1948 to 1994
allowing white South Africans in the
minority to rule over and discriminate
against the vast majority of black South
Africans the definitions from the United
Nations and the international criminal
court come out of their experiences in
1997 Nelson Mandela said the U.N took a
strong stand against apartheid and over
the years an international consensus was
built which helped to bring an end to
this iniquitous system but we know too
well that our freedom is incomplete
without the freedom of the Palestinians
in 2013 Desmond Tutu recalled being
struck by the similarities between what
he experienced in apartheid South Africa
and what he observed in Israel I visited
the occupied Palestinian territories and
have witnessed the humiliation of
Palestinians and Israeli military
checkpoints
the inhumanity that won't let ambulances
reach the injured
Farmers tend their land
or children attend school
this treatment is familiar to me and the
mainly black South Africans who were
coral and harassed by the security
forces of the apartheid government
listen to South Africa's Minister for
international relations naledi pandor
addressing the United States General
Assembly just last week
while we work to address contemporary
conflicts we should not ignore
long-standing conflicts such as that of
the people of Palestine which has been
on the United Nations agenda throughout
the seven decades of existence of this
organization
we cannot ignore the words of the former
Israeli negotiator at the Oslo talks
Daniel Levy who addressed the U.N
security Council recently and referred
to the increasingly weighty body of
scholarly legal and public opinion that
has designated Israel to be perpetrating
apartheid in the territories under its
control to my fellow Jews to my friends
in the Democratic party who want to
support Israel and think of themselves
as Progressive is important to look at
what Israeli law today does what the
lived experiences of Palestinians today
means as defined under international law
and what our friends from South Africa
have long pointed out but we should not
stop there South Africans didn't just
Define apartheid they dismantled it
instead of attacking Rasheeda's leave
for her Candor her critic should ask
themselves how Israeli apartheid could
be dismantled what would a
post-apartheid country look like Lashana
Tova
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