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Herzl’s Zionism and Settler Colonialism in Palestine

January 28, 2024 No Comments

Herzl’s Zionism and Settler Colonialism in Palestine Settling on Palestine as the future location for Israel, the Zionist leaders have to figure out what to do with Palestine’s indigenous people, the Palestinians. In his pamphlet, Herzl dealt with the indigenous population of Palestinians without mentioning their name and by describing the Palestinians as wild beasts who should be eliminated, “Supposing,

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The Republic of South Africa files an Application with the International Court of Justice against Israel under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

December 31, 2023 No Comments

The Republic of South Africa files an Application with the International Court of Justice against Israel under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide The Government of the Republic of South Africa filed its application with the International Court of Justice instituting proceedings in the name of the Republic of South Africa (“South Africa”)

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Die Schuld endet nie: Deutschlands Beziehung zu Israel

November 14, 2023 No Comments

Zusammenfassung Das nationalsozialistische Deutschland und die Jewish Agency for Palestine, die spätere Regierung Israels und die offizielle Vertretung der Zionistischen Organisation (ZO), gingen von 1933 bis 1939 eine vertragliche Geschäftsbeziehung ein. Im Jahr 1952 unterzeichneten die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BRD) und der Staat Israel im Namen aller Juden ein Abkommen, das den Weg für die bedingungslose Unterstützung Israels durch Deutschland ebnete.

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October 7, 2023: Contextual Realities of Israel’s Settler colonialism, apartheid, and genocide

November 3, 2023 No Comments

October 7, 2023: Contextual Realities of Israel’s Settler colonialism, apartheid, and genocide Introduction For more than 75 years, Israel has been continuously waging war on the Palestinian people. Israel sees Palestinian resistance to the colonization of their homeland as a threat to its very existence, control, and dominance. In its settler colonial settler reality, the very existence of the Palestinian

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Participate in this poll

April 5, 2023 No Comments

Participate in this poll Please participate in this important Poll. No private information will be kept or revealed about the participants. Tabulation will be done automatically without human intervention. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_xHxJdiyXJFDtYqlcgCk3uJiuOFwc9XMaAeLmWzvj48/edit?fbclid=IwAR0_oifye8747ylRnMBkdyEGiQ1ucfznICvNpY7UAaNkLxzOLGoYNaDY7cs

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Germany’s Never-Ending Guilt Trip

April 3, 2023 No Comments

  Abstract: Nazi Germany and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the future government of Israel and the official representative of the Zionist Organization (ZO), entered a contractual transactional relationship from 1933 to 1939. In 1952 the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the State of Israel, on behalf of all Jews, signed an agreement that paved the way for Germany’s

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One State vs. Two States In Historic Palestine

February 1, 2023 No Comments

One State vs. Two States In Historic Palestine Since 1948, it has been the consensus of the international community that a durable and just settlement for the Palestine/Israel conflict entails the creation of two states: Palestine and Israel and the return of all Palestinian refugees expelled by Israel and their compensation. This consensus was based on UNGA Resolutions 181 of

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Misunderstanding the struggle for liberation and self-determination in Palestine

February 1, 2023 No Comments

Misunderstanding the struggle for liberation and self-determination in Palestine Many people misunderstand the nature of the struggle for Palestine. They consider Palestine to be contested land between Israelis and Palestinians. The facts about the struggle are simple: Palestine is not a contested territory. Palestine has its rightful owners who continuously inhabited the land and utilized it for their survival and

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“A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution” Human Rights Watch Report

February 1, 2023 No Comments

“A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution” Human Rights Watch Report In April 2021, Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) released a 217-page publication titled “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.” HRW asserted that Israel is an apartheid state both within its pre-1967 territory as well as in the West Bank and

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B’Tselem: Israli Apartheid

January 31, 2023 No Comments

B’Tselem: Israli Apartheid In 2021, for the first time, B’Tselem speaks out about Israel and the analogy of apartheid, declaring that the situation in Israel is apartheid, in that Palestinians have fewer rights than the Jews. En 2021, pour la première fois, B’Tselem se prononce au sujet d’Israël et l’analogie de l’apartheid, déclarant que la situation en Israël est de l’apartheid, dans la mesure

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South Africa / Palestine

January 31, 2023 No Comments

Loss of Land, Ethnic cleansing, Discrimination and Segregation Homelands (Bantustans) THE APARTHEID STATE : The Case of South Africa Apartheid is not just a particularly bad kind of racism. The word means “apart-ness” in Afrikaans. The doctrine of Apartheid advocates that white people are racially superior to blacks and other people.  Blacks and other races should not challenge or compete

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Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity-2022

January 31, 2023 No Comments

Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity-2022 Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International said today in a damning new report. The investigation details how Israel enforces a system of oppression and domination against the Palestinian people wherever it has control over their rights.

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Is Israel an apartheid state?

January 31, 2023 No Comments

Is Israel an apartheid state? The short answer is unequivocal yes! But for those who are skeptical, let the record speak for itself. The following section is a comparison between apartheid South Africa and an analysis of Israeli policies and practices. What is Apartheid? Apartheid is not just a particularly bad kind of racism. The word means “apart-ness” in Afrikaans.

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Is Israel a colonial state?

January 31, 2023 No Comments

Is Israel a colonial state? Israel was established because of the existence of a European racist and settler colonial ideology through the application of carefully and deliberately fabricated myths. But unlike classical settler-colonialism, Zionism and Zionists have never maintained an umbilical cord to a mother European country nor with plans solely to exploit local natives and resources. Instead, Zionism and

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Judaism Is not Zionism

January 31, 2023 No Comments

Judaism Is not Zionism Judaism is not Zionism! Judaism is a religion that was established by Moses in accordance to the Torah. Judaism forbids the organized return of Jews to Palestine until the coming of the Jewish Messiah. Zionism is a European political ideology that began to take shape and form in 1897 during the first Zionist Congress in Basel,

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Zionism: Historical / Ideological development

January 31, 2023 No Comments

Zionism: Historical / Ideological development Zionism, the ideological force behind the establishment of the state of Israel in Palestine in 1948, is the product of Western Jewish cultural and socio-political conditions. As a political ideology, it is similar to other European ideological products of the time such as nationalism, fascism, and colonialism. It is derived from and based on a

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