During the current Israeli election campaign, PM Netanyahu once again made a deal to help elect overt racists & fascists to Israel’s parliament in exchange for their support.
Among them, followers of the late Meir Kahane, whose Kach party is considered a terrorist organization by the US because of violent attacks carried out by its members. imeu.org/article/meir-k…
As a member of Israel’s parliament in the 1980s, Kahane proposed a set of racist laws calling for Palestinians & other non-Jews to be enslaved or forcibly deported & strict racial segregation with severe penalties for violators. The proposed laws read in part:
“Non-Jews will be obliged to assume duties, taxes and slavery. If he does not agree to slavery and taxes, he will be forcibly deported.”
“A non-Jew will not live within the jurisdiction of the city of Jerusalem.”
“A non-Jew who has a marital relationship with a Jew is liable to 50 years in prison. A Jewish prostitute or a Jewish male who has an affair with a non-Jewish male is sentenced to five years in prison.”
“Jews of the State of Israel are not allowed to have full or partial marital [sexual] relations of any kind with non-Jews, even outside of marriage. Anyone breaching this section is liable to imprisonment for two years.”
“Separate beaches will be established for Jews and non-Jews. A person of one people found on the beach destined for a member of the second people will be subject to six months’ imprisonment.”
This is the ideology of Netanyahu’s partners: enslaving Palestinians, punishing race-mixing, and encouraging ethnic cleansing.
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Kahane’s preachings and policies weren’t just run-of-the-mill racist, they explicitly called for Jewish supremacy and apartheid and Jim Crow-like conditions. Here are some of Kahane’s extremist proposals:
Kahane proposed that non-Jews in Israel would have no nat'l rights & would not be allowed to take part in any political proceedings in Israel—no voting, no holding office, no representation. Non-Jews would also have to pay special taxes, & if they refused, they would be deported.
He also proposed that Jews both in Israel and abroad would not be allowed to marry non-Jews, and such marriages would not be recognized in the eyes of the law.
THREAD: Palestinians aren't free to love due to Israel's discriminatory policies. Under Israel's apartheid system, Palestinians are divided into separate ID categories and given unequal rights. Palestinian spouses and families are separated,
sometimes unable to be together for years.
These policies target Palestinians no matter where they live or what their ID status is. Israel separates Palestinians living in Gaza from Palestinians living in the West Bank,
and both are separated from Palestinians who are citizens of Israel. Palestinian refugees are even more separated from their loved ones.
Israel has banned Palestinian family unification as
THREAD: After the UAE & Bahrain deals, normalization between #Sudan’s military rulers & Israel’s apartheid government is the latest agreement between authoritarian forces that’s being misportrayed as a “historic peace deal” between nations. Here is what you need to know about it:
Sudan’s military-led transitional government (set to keep power from the civilian government until at least 2022) is a client of regional authoritarian governments, receiving billions in funding from the Saudi & UAE regimes. Their decisions do not represent the Sudanese people.
Back in August, when US Sec of State Mike Pompeo first pressured Sudan to normalize with Israel, Sudan’s civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok responded by saying Sudan’s military-led transitional government had “no mandate” to make such a decision. washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) rejected a bill to grant “equal and legal protection for all citizens… both Arabs and Jews.” middleeastmonitor.com/20200918-kness…
The bill was introduced on Friday by Yousef Jabareen, on behalf of the Arab Joint List, seeking equality for all citizens. The bill was rejected by a majority of both the ruling party and the opposition parties. middleeastmonitor.com/20200918-kness…
The Knesset’s rejection of equality is the latest act of racism against Palestinians in Israel. This comes just 2 years after Israel entrenched apartheid by passing the Jewish nation-state law, which says the right to self-determination in Israel is “unique to the Jewish people.”
In 2016, a Facebook delegation met Israeli Minister Ayelet Shaked and Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan—who spearheads the fight against the BDS movement—with the aim of improving “cooperation against incitement.” aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/p…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is claiming that the deals signed between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain are putting an end to conflict and bringing about peace. But this is what happened last week: haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…
UAE minister echoes claims that the agreement will bring peace. Here's a reality check: The deal will do nothing to achieve Palestinian freedom. Instead it will pave the way for Israeli spy tech to be sold in greater numbers to the UAE. #AbrahamAccordstheintercept.com/2016/10/17/how…
The UAE minister claimed that Trump "stopped" Israeli annexation of the West Bank. That's a lie. Israel has de facto annexed the West Bank. 300,000+ Israeli settlers live in the West Bank, surrounded by Israeli checkpoints and soldiers. That's annexation. #AbrahamAccords