WhyIsrael?

Hasbara busting Why Israel? Provides activists with ammunition for challenging Zionist myths & lies

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Anyone discussing or presenting information on Israel/Palestine needs to add #WhyIsrael? to their library...

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That ‘other man’ was the Palestinian Arab nation, long established in the region as a political entity. Undeterred, Herzl pressed on with his programme of emigration, ignoring Palestine’s existing occupants.

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1897, under order of the first Zionist Congress President Theodor Herzl, two Austrian rabbis travelled to Palestine to explore the possibility of locating a Jewish state there. ‘The bride is beautiful,’ the rabbis cabled back to Herzl, ‘but she is married to another man’.

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The formation of a Jewish state in a Jewish homeland, even though the Zionist founders themselves were not religious Jews. The land they chose for was Palestine, a choice not made for any religious reason, as they were secular Jews.

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The very creation of the State of Israel in 1948 was based on the hypocrisy of Zionism, a political movement established by Theodor Herzl in 1897. The aim of the movt was to secure an ethnic and racially exclusive state for European Jewry

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Final Part 13 we look to the future and consider the effect that the Arab revolutions might have on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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In Part 12 we closely examine how one democratic state for all citizens is the only just, moral solution. The establishment of two separate states, one for Palestinians and one for Israelis has often been put forward as the only solution to end the conflict.

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Part 11 looks at how legal activists in various countries have invoked universal jurisdiction to attempt to prosecute Israeli politicians and military officials responsible for various military actions that have resulted in the deaths of thousands of Palestinians.

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Part 10 examines the successes that the BDS campaign has achieved around the world, its impact on the Israeli economy and government, and Zionist arguments against the BDS campaign.

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Part 9 discusses how the conflict is covered in the media, particularly in the US and UK. The end-result is coverage that is devoid of the context of a military occupation that marginalises anti-Zionist voices & is influenced by business interests that influence the mass media.

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Part 8 examines the use of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and the mythical ‘Arab threat’ as a justification for Israeli policies. Israel has been portrayed as a country fighting for its survival against the Arab world – rather than as a powerful, nuclear Apartheid state

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Part 7 reveals how powerful Zionist lobby groups such as AIPAC and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), as well as various Jewish Boards of Deputies and Zionist Federations have ensured that a candid discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is simply not possible.

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Part 6: Shows how, within Israel, Palestinians are treated as second-class citizens, subject to systematic discrimination in terms of political, economic, social, cultural, and human rights.

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Part 5: Supporters of Israel recoil at the comparison to Apartheid. We show why Israel must be regarded as an Apartheid state by looking at definitions of Apartheid. There are similarities, with the Israeli Govt using many of the methods practiced by the Apartheid regime in SA.

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Part 4: It is impossible to examine political-Zionist Apartheid without understanding the broader geo-politics of the Middle East and examines the role of key Middle Eastern countries in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and their relationship with Israel.

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Part 3: The evolution of Palestinian resistance and politics is explored in, tracking the birth of Fatah, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the emergence of resistance groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

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Part 2: To fully understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we survey the Israeli political landscape and briefly outline the key parties and actors.

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Part 1 exposes how political Zionism has manipulated Judaism by tracing the historical origins of the conflict, and debunks the oft-repeated myth that Palestine was a ‘land without people for a people without a land’.

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There will be those who will take issue with our sources and arguments, and claim that we are biased. They will argue that this is a complex conflict with a simple solution: the Palestinians need to accept the two-state solution and peace will prevail. This is not the case.

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Israel is an occupier. It is a coloniser; an Apartheid state. The issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are the dispossession of the Palestinian people of their land, the denial of the right of Palestinian refugees and their right to return to their land as equal citizens.

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There will be those who will take issue with our sources and arguments, and claim that we are biased. They will argue that this is a complex conflict with a simple solution: the Palestinians need to accept the two-state solution and peace will prevail. This is not the case.