Thread by @__jacker__

UK's president of the National Union of Students!!

"I just want to start by declaring solidarity with siblings in Palestine who have historically decades upon decades have continued to bear the brunt of a racist system of apartheid"

At the same meeting we have Omar Barghouti stating that Israel enacts a form of "Zionist supremacism" which provides a model state for "white supremacists".

And finally Ben Jamal, of the PSC:
"[Israel] is a problem rooted in process of settler colonialism given initial energy by Balfour declaration, was accelerated under British mandate which oversaw & engineered process of huge Jewish settlement & expulsion of Palestinians"

In fact, the British prevented mass Jewish emigration, turning tens of thousands back to their fate in Nazi Europe. Many British generals sided with the Palestinians and in fact led whole battalions of the Arab Legion.

Israel, far from being an apartheid state, is the only real democracy (yes, not perfect) in the region, and in 4th election in the space of 2 years saw an Islamist party voted in to the knesset.

I would quite like @Larissa_Ken to clarify her remark about "historically [...] decades upon decades" of "a racist system of apartheid"

Does this apply to Israel as a whole? The West Bank? Area C? Does the same apply to Jordan? Lebanon? Syria?

@SabriSun_Miller @realBenBloch fyi ^
Don't know how much influence she has but it doesn't bode well..