Representative Pramila Jayapal (D, Washington) said a few days ago that Israel was a “racist state.” She was speaking in Chicago when pro-Palestinian demonstrators interrupted a panel she was on. She immediately got a lot of flak from Democrats, and she said that she erred: that Israel as a state was not racist.
Was she wrong?
Israel’s Declaration of Independence says that Israel will “uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without distinction of race, creed or sex.” Does anyone believe that Israel does that? Does Netanyahu believe that? In 2019 he wrote, “According to the basic nationality law we passed, Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people-and only it.” Israel may not be a racist state, but its current government is definitely racist. And it was elected by the Israeli electorate.
The greatest trick the Israelis ever pulled was equating *any* criticism of Israel as a nation with anti-semitism in general.
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