Zion Or Bust!

Normalize This! Remi Kanazi

New Yorker of Palestinian descendant Remi Kanazi, lays down the methods and words Israel has used consistently to insist that its military occupation and confiscation of land in occupied Palestine and that crimes committed by Israeli military in Gaza can be normalized: washed away by simply talking peace or forming joint Palestinian Israeli cooperation projects while Israel continues to go against peaces through brutal actions. Kanazi calls it Poetic Injustice.



What Comes Next? A Forum on the end of the Two State Paradigm
A thought provoking and necessary discussions on the possibilities and just solutions for forming a single Democratic state in Israel Palestine. This is by no means a new idea. It has been around long before 1948

The Forgotten Jewish anti Zionism left

breaking media monopoly on Israel Palestine

Israel government and society have always feared the day the world would be unified in their calls for an end to illegal Israeli military occupation of Palestine, respecting the rights of the Palestinian refugees and right to self determination. The mainstream media pundits know they can no longer keep the public in the dark on what Israel has been doing to the Palestinians for the past 75 years, while acting as a bully to its neighbors. The current popular Palestine protests in the U.S. and the rest of the world, has given Israel, it’s staunchest allies the U.S. and Europe and a few Asian and African countries more fuel to get back its dominate voice and media control of blasting the Israeli narrative and only showcasing it as a means to fight back against the world’s pro Palestine perspective and deeper analysis of what is actually happening on the ground in the occupied territories. for Israel’s sake to shake up the media story that had finally begun to listen to Palestinian voices beyond politics, humanize and understand the Palestinian people, challenge Israeli exceptionalism and hear how brutal Israeli occupation actually is.

The major news networks CNN, BBC, DW, France24, MSNBC can’t scare protesters, sympathizers, supporters and conscious objects for Palestine with shouts and accusations of anti semitism, anti Jewish hatred and name calling “Hamas sympathizer” “terrorist supporter” calling anyone who challenges Israel’s actions, policies, and questions the enduring Zionist founding myth of modern Israel, a nazi both directly and indirectly. The whole world can see past the Israeli Hasbara and media PR fluff that has broadcast the last 75 years that Israel is not just the Middle East’s only democracy but it is a righteous country surrounded by hordes of enemies who are existential threats to it and its identity as a Jewish state. This repeated and neatly packaged view of Israel has been challenged by everyone through various websites, in-depth analyses, books, articles and voices extensively. Over the past decades, more independent news channels, podcasts, radio stations have flourished online on its own websites and social media platforms where most of the public are getting their news and are turning away from the mainstream media that once had a large monopoly on breaking news and analysis. Israeli Hasbara machine and Israel first media channels and supporters are struggling against the independent media, Palestinian voices and eyewitness accounts, documentaries, discussions, online radio and real time social media videos. The Israel lobby and Hasbara machine have succeeded for years in censoring News and information that showed the world the truth on occupied Palestine and Palestinian history and identity that broke away from the David and Goliath metaphor where Israel is david and Palestinians, Arabs and Iran are Goliaths. One aspect of Israeli society and history that is sideline is Israeli racism against Palestinians, Arab Jews aka Mizrahi Jews, African Israelis ie Ethiopian, South Sudanese, Eritrean, etc. Israeli racism against non European Jews and even Christians in Israel will come as a shock to most Israel first supporters who have assumed for years that Israel is a secular, tolerant, liberal and welcoming Western nation sandwich in the Middle East. The society and culture is European. Israel often portrays itself in the global media as a melting pot nation similiar to the United States and Canada that resembles a real life ad from United Colors of Bennetton. On the surface, this media image of Israel being welcoming to all peoples and religions holds water, but the reality for the diverse ethnic groups on the ground is a different story. Often unknown stories of Ethiopians, Palestinians, Mizrahis fighting against long standing stereotypes, orientalist views and discriminatory policies that favor Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe over Mizrahi and African Jews and Christians. As a side note: Ashkenazi Jews are seen as the face of Israel, Jewish people and Judiasm and usually the first Jewish faces people will think of when Jews come to mind.

The Israeli fear also extends the creation of a Palestinian state would end the Israeli ultra nationalist and religious dream of keeping illegal Israeli settlements/colonies as part of Tel Aviv’s “facts on the ground” to keep Jude’s and Samaria as Israel refers to the whole of for West Bank, using biblical and Torah justification for not allowing an independent Palestine.


Updates on Palestine

Zeiad Abbas: Western Media has abandoned Palestine
Gazan fisherman finds rare bronze statue of Greek god Apollo

Planned Israeli annexation of Jordan Valley?

Genetics and Zionist claims to Palestine
Zionism and Israel: An Old Alliance of bigotry and colonialism Fire in the house: The French Left, Anti Zionism and the critique of Israel


Israeli government has continued with its plans to ethnically cleanse and removed 1948 displaced Palestinian Bedouin families and their descendants from their villages across the Negev desert. Palestinian Bedouins like their countrymen in Gaza, West Bank, Jerusalem and spread across the Diapora have not been spared from collective punishment or Israeli military force. The Bedouins were displaced from their original hometowns and homeland through forced expulsions and terrorizing force by the Haganah and Zionist forces who rushed to create the new state of Israel atop Palestine in 1948. During 1940s-50s and continuing into the 1967 war, Bedouin families had their villages (unrecognized by the Israeli government to this day) demolished by Israeli government forces in the Negev and other Palestinian towns under occupation and within Israel itself.

Palestinians fight to save villages from Israeli seperation wall

Withdrawl of Prawar Plan a victory for Palestinians in Israel

Israel razes homes of Palestinians during Worst winter yet

Push to recruit Arab Christians into Israeli Army

8 questions Palestinian Queers are tired of hearing

In Israel, Canada embraces racism it abolished in its homeland

The UN's role in creating the Israeli Palestinian conflict

Visualizing Palestine today

Tel Aviv-Jaffa "City for Us All"
Emanicipatory municipal politics where Palestinians and Mizhrahi Jews (Arab Jews from Middle East and North Africa) come together to fight a common enemy forced evictions from their homes in Tel Aviv-Jaffa by Israeli municipal authorities.

Hares Boys: Israel has tortured and imprisoned five Palestinian children for life by the Israeli military for the "crime" of throwing stones during a car accident involving Israeli settlers in West Bank. The problem is the boys didn't actually throw any stones and were hit from behind. The Hares boys case echoes the Jim Crow laws during the Apartheid era in the US and the continual laws that send African American children to prison for crimes they did not commit or were innocent of a crime but were still imprisoned. Both actions violate not only local Israeli and American laws but international law on rights of children and citizens.

Where is Palestine's Mandela

The Colonial Roots of Zionism

Migration in Israel

Despite being Jews or Pro-Israel and even Christian Zionists, African migrants, often receive a cold reception in Israel
African migrants mainly from South Sudan, Darfur (Sudan), Ethiopia and Eritrea have crisscrossed thousands of miles from their homelands through Egypt and the Sinai to reach Israel. In addition to the migrants, there are thousands of Israelis of Ethiopian and African descendant living in Israel who are often overlooked when images of Israel are portrayed around the world. Many migrants similar to their countrymen racing to Europe or the United States, are escaping persecution, war or searching for safety, better economic opportunities and stability. Despite being a signatory to the UN laws and international charters on protecting refugees and asylum, Israel has consistently discriminated against African migrants arriving in the country. Israeli media uses stereotypes and racist language to describe Sudanese, Eritrean and Ethiipian migrants as infiltrators, threatening invaders, diseased and treating the migrants as enemies within similar to Israeli society's views of Palestinians. Africans (both documented and undocumented) are hampered and denied access to jobs, decent housing or quality schools across Israel. Native born African Israelis face insults by school authorities, healthcare discrimination, indifferent government beaucracy, and occasionally meant to feel unwelcome in wider society. Ironically South Sudan and Ethiopia have strong diplomatic and cultural ties to Israel. Both countries and respective leaders regard Israel as one of their strongest allies in the Middle East. Both have security pacts with Israeli military even going out of their way to do business and trade (military and logistic wise) with Israel despite Israelis' treatment toward South Sudanese or Ethiopians within the Middle's East's "only Democracy". Eritrea is in the middle. Even Ethiopian Jews arriving in the country  face outright discrimination and mob like racism from fellow European Jews from around the world who are granted automatic citizenship. Most migrants are quick to be deported if found to be illegal or if they break the smallest of laws. For migrants arrested by Israeli police, they are held in detention camps in the Negev desert. These migrants have yet to reach out to connect with Palestinians on fighting Zionist racism as both peoples have suffered from the same methods of control. The only difference is migrants aren't facing military violence but police and state violence and discriminatory policies that Israeli Jews living in other countries would protest against. No longer taking abuse silently, some tens of thousands of Ethiopian, Sudanese and Eritrean migrants took to the streets in Tel Aviv to protest racism and discrimination in a country who takes discrimination against its own self seriously.

Israel's New Racism: Discrimination against African migrants



It is impossible to be Israeli? According to Israeli High Court the Israeli nationality does not exist in Israel

Electronic Intifada's articles on Mizrahi Jews

Mizrahi Jews reach out to the Arab World

Divide and Rule: Spineless Bookkeeping: Using Mizrahi Jews as pawns against Palestinian refugees

Hunting identity: Jewish fixation on genes
A reflection how DNA and genetics also plays unknown yet interesting role in Israel-Palestine conflict

Zionist Crimes against Jews

Zionist crimes against Christians

Israeli report on Muhammad Al Dura case is vengeful and surreal but treated as gospel

Jerusalem Christians fearful of the future
The oldest Christian population in the world fears that Israeli government's insistence on making Jerusalem a capital of Israel (for eternity, no joke), Judaizing Jerusalem at the expense of erasing Palestinian identity of the city and announcing the Jerusalem belongs to the Jewish people while brush aside claims made by Palestinian Muslims and Christians with long history in the city, has pushed and dwindled the Palestinian and Armenian Christians in Jerusalem.

Why I won't fly the Israeli flag on Independence day: Israelis have long fought against the continual occupation of Palestine and Israel's discirminatory treatment of Palestinians. They have joined protests with Palestinians and taught Israeli youth and wider society the truth about the brutality of Israeli control over Palestinians and a non sugar coated view of the causes of wars in the Middle East. For their efforts against the Israeli security and military state, they have been drowned out by the pro military, defense and paranoid anti terrorism Israelis who insists that apartheid and military force will keep the country safe. 
Israeli settlers occupy Monasty rise Israeli flag
The Infrastructure of Israeli Settler Colonialism
Environmentalist reach out to Palestinian schoolchildren to clean up Jerusalem's holy valley
London Court repudiates Zionist abuse of Anti-Semetism charge against critics of Israel and its policies
Not enough water in the West Bank:
Water facts in West Bank
Palestinians mark 46 yrs of Naksa 1967 Six Day War
Return to Iqrit: Descendants of the Palestinians forced to flee the village of Iqrit are turning the Right of Return into a reality by slowly reclaiming its land.
Gaza Students to learn Hebrew
Gazans learn "Language of the Occupier"
Israelis humiliating discrimination against Arab Jews within and out of Israel read here
When the cameraman confronts a gunwielding soldier

Israel's Next War

Could a potential Civil War be brewing in Israel between the ultra right wing, conservative settlers and Zionist nationalists and secular Israelis?



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