“Israel is the national state of Jewish people alone.” The words of Bibi Netanyahu on Instagram today, effectively marginalizing the Arab residents of Israel (I’m talking about Israel proper now, not the West Bank or Gaza) who constitute 20% of the population, and in a single neat phrase, sealing their fate as second-class citizens. Even the Israeli president, not normally known for his liberal views, was swift to condemn the remark, but we have to remember that Netanyahu is doing no more than Trump does when he comes out with racist, anti-science claptrap: appealing to his base.
Already under fire as he faces legal action for corruption, he is seeking to bolster his support from the ultra-right, who would deport every Arab if they thought they could get away with it. Of course that isn’t going to happen, if only because it is the Arabs who do all those menial infrastructure jobs that Israelis would rather not do.
The Israeli lobby in the UK is so effective it has been able to get the whole nation to believe that any criticism of the Zionist state is anti-Semitic, and managed to tie the Labour Party in knots as a result. The Labour Party isn’t full of Jew haters, but there are many within it who disapprove of the way Israel treats its minorities- see above.
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