We’re American Jewish Historians. This Is Why We’ve Left Zionism Behind

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48. Just contextualizing the situation as Israel has been under attack since 1948....

No other western liberal democracy under such adversity, with enemies sworn to its destruction & the mass murder of all its civilians, would act any better WRT civil and human rights than Israel.

America actually put Japanese and German American citizens in internment camps during WW2 while the British put up to 30,000 Holocaust survivors trying to go to Israel in internment camps located in Cyprus. Holocaust survivors! They were released in 1949. Classy move there. More recently in the 1970's the Brits interned a couple thousand Irish.

I personally think that there's no moral justification whatsoever for the attitudes revealed in the Pew poll and elsewhere. Those attitudes are wrong, regardless of whether they're expressed by Israelis, Palestinians, Germans or whatever.

79% of Israeli Jews believe in preferential treatment, but what does that mean? When more than 9/10 say Israel is vital to the longterm survival of the Jewish people - and it is - is that the preferential treatment? Allowing Jews law of return - is that the preferential treatment?

Anyway, I fail to see the point in comparing levels of slavery in Israel with other countries, when my post was about racist attitudes in Israel. I think that the criticism against Zionism leveled in the OP is justified, and that the racist attitudes against Arabs is part of that justification.

You wrote about Israel being the most racist democracy in the world, and you were proven wrong.

As to expelling Arabs...which Arabs & from where? It doesn't say.

Besides, all BDS'ers support a Gaza & W.Bank that are emptied of all Jews. Hell, BDS doesn't even believe the Jews are a people (nation) deserving of self-determination. That's in the actual BDS platform, which is racist. So it's quite hypocritical for a BDS supporter like yourself making claims of racism against Israel, don't you think?