"Racist Regime": Orly Noy on Israel Denying Bomb Shelter Access to Palestinians
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We get an update on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran from Israel, where reports are growing of discrimination against non-Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel attempting to seek shelter from Iranian drone and missile attacks. While Jewish neighborhoods are "well protected" by bomb shelters, shelters are much rarer in Palestinian neighborhoods within the highly segregated country, explains Israeli journalist Orly Noy. "This is the meaning of a supremacist, racist regime," she says.
Noy, whose Iranian Jewish family immigrated to Israel during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, also points out that public focus on Iran has allowed the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank to continue with minimal international outcry. This settler and soldier-led violence, coupled with Israel's ongoing restrictions and humanitarian aid, are "part of the continuing genocide, the infliction of measures and policies meant to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians," says Amnesty International's Agnès Callamard. "The control over humanitarian organization is very clear. It is meant to control those who dare speak up, those who are on the ground and are witnesses to the ongoing genocide."
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This is democracyow democracynow.org.
I'm Amy Goodman. As we continue our coverage of the US Israeli war on Iran, we go now to Jerusalem where we're joined by the Iranian Israeli journalist and activist Orly noi.
Earlier today, Israel launched a wave of new strikes targeting Iran and Lebanon. Meanwhile, retaliatory Iranian missile attacks hit central Israel. The Jerusalem Post reports the strikes killed two people, seriously wounding a third. In a recent article, our guest Orley Noi wrote, quote, "Only eight months ago, following the ceasefire with Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that in the 12 days of Operation Rising Lion, we achieved a historic victory which will stand for generations. It turns out this historic victory did not last even a single year, let alone generations," Orinoi writes. She is the editor of the Hebrew language news site Local Call and the chair of Betelum's executive board, the Israeli human rights group.
Orinoi, if you can respond to what's happening now on the ground, um the attacks by Iran in response to um Israel and US strike on Iran. Uh hi Amy, thank you so much for having me. Uh yes, I mean um I think it was well expected that as the war continues, there will be escalation also in the price that the Israeli society will need to pay for this uh completely lawless uh
unnecessary um criminal war that Israel and the United States wage against Iran. Uh, strangely enough, this still does not translate into any substantial opposition to the war among the Israeli society. The Israeli society is well known for it for its u almost automatic support of any war no matter how senseless uh it is. And we we see it once again not only by the supporters of Netanyahu and his government but also by the entire Zionist Jewish opposition uh by the uh Israeli mainstream media of course and and by the public and let me point out you are Jewish, you were raised in Iran. You live in Israel. in your recent piece um it's headlined we are at war therefore we are um as you describe what you call the ritual eraser of political disscent in Israel right now noting Israeli opposition leaders have eagerly and reflexively rallied behind Netanyahu in support of war yes it's in some cases they are even more extreme in their terms terminology than Netanyahu himself uh only a couple of days ago the head of the opposition Ya Laid tweeted that this war cannot end with anything less than the complete destruction of all Iranian infrastructure etc etc u and this is the man whose sole political goal right now should be and as declared to be uh replacing Netanyahu or at least bringing Netanyahu no down in the next elections. Uh it is astonishing the fact that uh uh laid a golan as Bennett and the other uh heads of the Jewish coalition do not understand that by supporting uh without question this very strange and unnecessary war. They're not that just committing a moral uh uh crime, but also making it for themselves incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to replace Natao in the next elections because he's just gaining more and more popularity with each war, with each unnecessary war that he wages upon uh neighboring um uh countries and countries in the region and the significance of attacking Lebanon again and intensifying boots on the ground in Lebanon on Israel's part.
Yeah, we are I mean the the look it we've seen it happening in the two and a half years of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and we see it yet again now whenever the public locally and internationally attention is drawn uh if it's to Gaza or to Iran Israel is making uh really extreme changes on the ground now it's in Lebanon which is being conquered occurred or at least part of it uh with troops on the ground in the West Bank. I think it's really important to speak about what's going on these days in the West Bank with Palestinians being simply executed by uh uh settlers uh with the support of the Israeli army.
And it just goes by without any serious repercussions, without any serious, you know, nothing. It just now it's not just ethnic cleansing. They're executing Palestinians in the West Bank and you don't hear the world speaking about it.
You don't because again Israel is using the fact that the public attention is someplace else right now.
I wanted to bring an Kalamar back into this conversation around what's happening in the occupied territories in the West Bank and in uh Gaza. Uh, Monday marks, that's today, five months since the so-called ceasefire. Um, but as you say, Israel has maintained its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. Um,
and as an organization, Amnesty International, um, if you could comment on Israel's dregistration of 37 international aid groups, uh, coming into effect last week and what that means. Well, it's it's part of um the continuing genocide. Um the um the infliction of uh measures and policies meant to uh bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians means curtailing and controlling humanitarian aid. right now as a result of the um the the attacks against um against Iran the Rafa crossing uh has been closed. So
6:596 minutes, 59 secondsit's coming on top of the deregistration of the 37 humanitarian organization which means that the humanitarian condition that was already pretty bad after five months of so-called ceasefire is uh is worsening. Um the the the control over humanitarian organization is very clear. It is meant to control those who dare speak up, those who are on the ground and are witnesses to the ongoing genocide. They are being replaced by uh lackey I will say so far uh pretty incompetent ones um according to um to their their past record. Um and it is all part of the blockade that is being imposed in terms of people's movement in terms of food in terms of medicine and in terms of information.
On the issue of blockade I want to end with or noi talking about a blockade of information. Um, we hear inside Israel with the uh, you know, bomb shelters that uh, Palestinians who are speaking Arabic are told not to come in by other Israelis and of course the lack of protection on the West Bank bomb shelters at all. If you could comment on that and the blockade of information, military censorship in Israel,
relatively little coming out about the damage from the Iranian attacks. orally. Yes. Well, I mean, this is when you have a a regime that is fundamentally based on the foundations of racism and supremacy.
You shouldn't be surprised to find that these uh notions of racism and supremacy are being expressed also in or maybe
even in particularly in times of war. It is true that there is a it's not that Palestinians uh in many cases are not being allowed into public shelters against the law, needless to say by the public. Uh the the the more fundamental problem is that the Palestinian neighborhoods, neighborhoods and towns and cities in many cases are lacking the fundamental, you know, uh uh needs uh for for protection, no shelters here in Jerusalem. The Palestinian neighborhoods even though being annexed and supposedly are part of the state of Israel as far Israel is concerned. Uh the Jewish neighborhoods are well protected by shelters. The pallet you cannot find a single almost single shelter in the Palestinian neighborhood. And it goes to the extent that they are now waiting for the schools to open because the schools are the only places in East Jerusalem that actually do have shelters. of right now it would be safer for a Palestinian family to send their uh children to school in the middle of a wartime than having them stay at home when they where they do not have any shelters. This is the meaning of a supremacist racist regime.
Or no, I want to thank you for being with us. Iranian Israeli political activist, editor of the Hebrew language news site Local Call, also chair of the board of Bet Salam, the Israeli human rights group. We'll link to your latest piece for 972 headlined, "We are at war, therefore we are." And Anas Kalamar, Secretary General of Amnesty International, I'd like to continue the conversation after the broadcast with you. We'll post online at democracynow.org on this weekend of International Women's Day and talk particularly about uh one woman who just recently died returning to Iraq, Yanar Muhammad. Thanks for watching Democracy Now on YouTube. Subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications to make sure you never miss a video. And for more of our audience supported journalism, go to democracynow.org org where you can download our news app, sign up for our newsletter, subscribe to the daily podcast, and so much more.
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