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Israel:
Jewish Supremacy in Action
By David Duke
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15
of 19
Israel: A Racist
State
On November 10th 1975, a plenary session of the
United Nations declared that Zionism is a form of racism. Howls of
protest went up across America and throughout the world from the
(once again) poor, persecuted Jews. They were furious that such a
charge could have been made against the "only true democracy in the
Mideast." But what exactly is Zionism if it is not racism? Even David
Ben-Gurion, in discussing the "Hitlerism" of Menachem Begin, wrote,
"He can be accused of racism, but then one will have to put on trial
the entire Zionist movement, which is founded on the principle of a
purely Jewish entity in Palestine."1
The International Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, adopted by the United Nations
General Assembly in 1965, has now been ratified by most member
states. Article 1 of this Convention defines the term racial
discrimination as
. . .any distinction, exclusion,
restriction or preference based on race, color, descent, or
national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of
nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on
an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the
political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public
life.2
Israel was and is a nation set up exclusively
for Jews. By the Israeli "Law of Return," a Jew is defined not by his
religious beliefs, but by his Jewish ancestry, proven by the heritage
of his parents. Although it is possible for Gentiles to convert to
Judaism, the obstacles are so great that the "converted" make up only
a tiny percentage of the Jewish population. As I write these lines,
Jewish Orthodoxy, the state-sanctioned religion of Israel, is in a
major controversy with American Reform and Conservative factions
because the Orthodox in Israel will not even recognize conversions
from these two branches of Judaism.
A Palestinian who was born in the boundaries of
what is now Israel, and whose family lived there for thousands of
years before being forced out by the Israeli army, cannot return to
his homeland and become a citizen of Israel. In contrast, an atheist
Jew born in New York City and who speaks no Hebrew, can immigrate to
Israel and be given instant citizenship. In addition, the Israeli
government offers him help in housing, living expenses, education,
and numerous other benefits to immigrate.
In 1948, nearly 94 percent of the land of
Israel was owned by Palestinians. Since then, Palestinian-owned land
has been systematically confiscated by the Israeli government. Most
of the Palestinian land went into what Israel calls the "National
Jewish Fund," and was declared by law to be "Land of Israel." It has
become "Jewish" land, and by law it can never be sold to a non-Jew,
rented to a non-Jew, or worked by a non-Jew. Much of the land has
been given at no cost to Jewish settlers. The Zionist army forced the
Palestinians from more than 350 cities and villages in Israel and the
Occupied Territories and then bulldozed the homes. Even ancient
Palestinian cemeteries are often plowed under.
Two other laws concern the Keren Kayemet
("National Jewish Fund" Law passed on 23 November 1953) and the Keren
Hayesod ("Reconstruction Fund" Law passed on 10 January 1956). The
president of the Israeli Human Rights League, Doctor Israel Shahak, a
professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in his book, The
Racism of the State of Israel,3 tells us that there
are in Israel whole towns (Carmel, Nazareth, Illith, Hatzor, Arad,
Mitzphen-Ramen, and others) where non-Jews are forbidden by law to
live.
The Palestinians who remained in Israel,
although ostensibly citizens, suffer intense discrimination. They are
given citizenship-identification cards that have no Israeli
nationality designation; nationality is listed only as Arab or
Jewish, lending itself to the many discriminatory policies in the
Jewish state. In Israel there are whole cities and settlements in
which it is illegal for Palestinians to live. There are segregated
housing areas and complexes, schools, and recreational facilities
where Palestinians are not allowed. This segregation is not de facto;
it is official government policy. Palestinians are not permitted to
serve in the military, and even though Palestinians are between 15
and 20 percent of the Israeli population, there has never even been
one Palestinian in the Israeli cabinet.
Israeli law does not recognize the legality of
marriage between Jews and Palestinians, as marriages and other
aspects of civil laws are decided by religious courts, which do not
recognize such marriages. Whenever I see Jews in the American media
glorifying and encouraging intermarriage between Blacks and Whites, I
think about their hypocrisy in supporting a nation in that will not,
by law, recognize a marriage between a Jew and an non-Jew.
Haim Cohen, a former judge of the Supreme Court
of Israel, noted
...the bitter irony of fate which
has led the same biological and racist laws propagated by the
Nazis and which inspired the infamous Nuremberg laws, to serve as
a basis for the definition of Judaism within the State of Israel.
4
- Bar Zohar. (1966). Le Prophète
Armé - : Ben Gourion. Fayard. Paris. p.146.
- United Nations General Assembly. (1965).
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination.
- Shahak, I.. The Racism Of The State Of
Israel. p.57.
- Badi, J. (1960). Fundamental Laws Of The
State Of Israel. New York. p.156.
