“No other country in the world has implemented a ban on protests amid the pandemic. But this ban..is about #Netanyahu holding onto power. He’s gotten desperate enough to deploy tactics #Israel routinely uses against Palestinians on its Jewish citizens, too washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/1…
“This is the last step before we fall into a completely fascist state,” said Asaf Agmon, a former brigadier general in @IDF . “This is the elimination of Israeli democracy,” said opposition politician Yair Golan”
“The crackdown means many Israelis are, for the first time in their lives, getting a very small taste of what it’s like — what it has always been like — for Palestinians. Not only those in the occupied West Bank...but also Palestinian citizens who comprise over 20% of...Israel.”
“But the Israeli government has not only been operating a 53-year military occupation over millions of Palestinians afforded no rights, it also operates an ethnocracy within its pre-1967 borders, privileging Jewish rights, as enshrined in the 2018 Jewish Nation-State Law.”
“The sooner Jewish citizens realize their fight against Netanyahu and for Israeli democracy must include a fight for equal rights for Palestinians, the better they will be able to safeguard their own civil rights.”
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