Israeli Jews to US Jews: Denounce Israeli Apartheid and Occupation of Palestine

In a statement by hundreds of Israeli and American public figures, the signatories call on US Jewish groups to speak out against the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Problem is that those US Jewish groups are the primary supporters and funders of the extremist terrorist Jewish settlers, most of whom hail from New York. [Read statement in: https://sites.google.com/view/israel-elephant-in-the-room ]

The statement has drawn international attention because of the prominent Israelis who have signed its forthright declaration that “Palestinians live under a regime of Apartheid”, including the renowned Israeli historian Benny Morris, and the former speaker of the Israeli parliament, Avraham Burg.

The open letter, which has gathered more than 1,500 signatories, comes amid months of mass demonstrations by Israeli leftwingers against Netanyahu’s legislation to weaken the power of the judiciary, while those same protesters have ignored the decades-old Apartheid regime systematically imposed by the Israeli occupation on the Palestinian territories and East Jerusalem: raids into refugee camps, home demolitions, uprooting of olive orchards, stealing land, harassing and murdering Palestinian villagers, evicting Palestinian Christians from their ancestral homes in East Jerusalem, etc. These bleeding-hearted anti-Netanyahu protesters live in a world best described by Kurt Vonnegut: It's as if Tel Aviv's Israel is like a bourgeois party - wine and cheese - with soft jazz music playing in the background. Everyone seems to be having fun, despite a stench hanging over the place from some corner in the house. Everyone is smelling it but ignores it lest it ruins the party.

The protesters and their US allies seem to be living in a parallel universe: worrying more about their little “democracy” while ignoring the “elephant in the room” of the illegal occupation of Palestine. The judiciary reforms proposed by Netanyahu and his ultra-religious Jewish racist terrorist government are designed to help Netanyahu evade prosecution for corruption.

Israel is faced with a major dilemma: Either the Palestinians have their own state with East Jerusalem as its capital, on an equal footing with Israel, an idea opposed by the fundamentalist Jewish terrorist settlers and their ministers who want to ethnically cleanse 5 million Palestinians out of the exclusively Jewish state they want; or agree to a unified binational Palestinian-Israeli state along Lebanon’s Christian-Muslim duality model, which is also opposed by the fanatic extremist Jews. Either way, Israel is up against the wall. The occupation has eroded the Zionist dream of a "Jewish homeland" in historic Palestine. The Israelis know they lied when they signed Oslo and Madrid, and now the whole word knows they lied.

The statement said Jewish American leaders have failed to speak out on “the ultimate purpose” of the judicial overhaul, which is to “annex more land, and ethnically cleanse all territories under Israeli rule of their Palestinian population”. The statement claims, albeit belatedly, that “American Jews have long been at the forefront of social justice causes, from racial equality to abortion rights, but have paid insufficient attention to Israel’s longstanding occupation that has yielded a regime of Apartheid,” the statement says. The signatories of the statement have themselves been either silent or complicit in the continued rape of Palestine. The reason for their sudden awakening is their realization that their own Zionist propaganda that has portrayed Israel as victim of terrorism and Palestinians as terrorists has been exposed for what it really is, in plain sight of the international community and millions of people around the world.

The open letter urges “leaders of North American Jewry” to support the Israeli protest movement while embracing equality for Palestinians who “lack almost all basic rights, including the right to vote and protest”. “There cannot be democracy for Jews in Israel as long as Palestinians live under a regime of Apartheid, as Israeli legal experts have described it,” the statement says. 

The statement in part reflects a concern among some protesters that if they are successful in blocking the judicial changes, Israel will return to the cycle of governments maintaining occupation without end, slowly expanding a creeping annexation and building of settlements. Israel does not seem to have a plan for peace with the Palestinians, hence the conclusion that its only plan is to force the Palestinians, slowly and methodically so that no one notices the trick, to give up their resistance, leave the country, or submit to a second-class citizenship status.

“The problems did not start with the current radical government: Jewish supremacism has been growing for years and was enshrined in law by the 2018 Nation State Law,” the statement says, further noting that the controversial judicial reforms are being driven in part by “American Jewish billionaire funders” supporting the Israeli far right.

The statement calls on American Jewish groups to “support human rights organizations which defend Palestinians” and to back an overhaul of the Israeli education system “to provide a more honest appraisal of Israel’s past and present”, including its brutal genocidal founding in 1948 over the ashes of historic Palestine and the dismemberment of Palestinian society into: refugee camps both inside and outside Palestine, the occupied territories, and a discriminated second-class Israeli citizenry.

The statement says US Jewish groups should also “demand from elected leaders in the United States that they help end the occupation, restrict American military aid from being used in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and end Israeli impunity in the UN and other international organizations”. This is a direct rebuttal to all those dumb Evangelical Americans of the bible belt who are slaves to Zionism and who have been passing laws in their backward states punishing anyone who calls for BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanctions) actions against Israel. BDS was successfully used to force Apartheid South Africa to end its racist terror against black South Africans.

Another group of Israelis, including two former military chiefs of staff, an ex-director of military intelligence and a former member of parliament, placed an advertisement in the New York Times on Sunday warning the US-based World Jewish Congress that it is being “misled” by Netanyahu.

This development clearly exposes all the stale accusations of Anti-Semitism leveled against critics of Apartheid Israel, including Pink Floyd member Roger Waters who, after performing his show for 40 years without a problem, was suddenly “investigated” last May by German authorities in a striking example of the guilt-inflicted servitude of former Nazis to Zionist blackmail. Or the Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rachida Tlaib who is constantly harassed by Zionist Americans for calling to end Apartheid in occupied Palestine.

Finally, mainstream America, its media and political class, can now breathe a sigh of relief because they can finally liberate themselves from the shackles of Zionist totalitarian thinking that has brainwashed generations of Americans into believing its lies. Americans have been living in terror at speaking out against Israeli brutality, occupation, and human rights abuses in Palestine. They can now more freely speak their minds because prominent Israelis have finally told the truth about their own country, and that is a very good start to bring some healing to the long-tormented Palestinian people.