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

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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.

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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.

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South Sudan and Israel first advocates

Simon Deng, South Sudanese American advocate, remains an outspoken uncritical and ardent Israel supporter, Zionist and long time friend of Israel. Deng famously led a decades long campaign against the Khartoum government in 1990s-2011 in the United States against the then war in Southern Sudan and alleged slavery, including his own experience as a child slave in 1960s. He successfully led the widely publicized "Sudan freedom walk" from NYC to Washington DC in 2006 and 2011. Deng continues to be an advocate for war victims (including the War on terror) and human rights in South Sudan and Darfur. Propelled by his own life experience and traum which still drives his activism today, Deng led a small group of South Sudanese on solidarity march through Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for the hostages held in Gaza in response to the October 7th attacks and massacre by Hamas against several kibbutz Be'eri, Nahal Oz and Nir Oz, a music festival and military bases. His sympathy not only extends to the Israeli victims, he also worked on an Israeli kibbutz despite personal danger to himself in the war torn country. The farms are usually staffed by migrant agricultural workers from Nepal, India and Malawai.* He downplays the ongoing Israeli bombardment, destruction of Gaza and Palestinian deaths to reiterate his personal support for Israelis and Israel at large. Deng also visited and spoke at the Knesset. He was recently interviewed alongside South Sudanese refugee turned Israeli community advocate Naka Pitia and fellow countrywoman by JNS TV's Our Middle East program on his activism and life that drove him to be an Israel first supporter. See also background in Sudan Our Middle East program is hosted by Israeli American, Dan Diker, who is also President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, an Israeli think tank founded in 1975 focused on military affairs, warfare, diplomacy and foreign policy issues.

*Just as the US and Italian agricultural businesses rely on seasonal migrants workers to produce food so does the Israeli agricultural sector. Many of the migrant workers returned home fleeing war and avoid being taken hostage as several Thai migrant workers were by Hamas on Oct 7th. The Thai migrants were releasd by Hamas on November 30, 2023.

Author's Note: Jerusalem Center currently runs it's War Room Briefing and War Time diplomacy center. Additionally, the JCPA has also been pushing its online media outreach and international affairs programs including podcasts and videos to a wider global audience. Including the non military, diplomatic sphere. This isn't just an altrustic move either. The JCPA wants to counter what it sees as "anti Israeli propaganda" as the world's eyes have been opened. It waves away criticism of Israel's war in Gaza, treatment of Palestinians, military actions in West Bank as "anti semitism and anti Jewish" sentiments using the same accusations and talking points as the Israeli government. As been said, accusing critics of Israel of being anti-semite is a decades old tactic by Israelis (in government and out) to silence people speaking out for Palestinian rights, liberation and end to the 75 yeat old Israeli military occupation of 22% of historic Palestine the Palestinian territories. Despite its focus on the Middle East and the world, the JCPA blames most of the ongoing war in Gaza, and other neigboring conflicts in Syria and Iraq squarely on Iran while dismissing Israel's actions in Gaza as self defense and national security. JCPA's actions have been followed by other Israeli think tanks and the wider government. Remember most countries around the world deal with harsh criticism from other nationas almost on monthly basis without resorting to paranoid thinking that the whole world is out to get them or hates their specific nationality.

Naka Pitia

Simon and Naka joined Dan Diker, President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, an Israeli think tank on public policy to discuss their lives and childhoods, the South Sudanese people's support and solidarity with Israel, advocacy for the 3,000 strong South Sudanese migrant community currently living in Israel, plus other topics including Iran, the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas and future threats from terror groups.

South Sudanese have a long history of being sympathetic to Israel and Israelis given the South Sudanese people's long struggle against Sudanese government prior to South Sudan's 2011 Independence from Sudan. They have been long standing, die hard, admired and unconditional supporters of Israel, the Zionist movement and Christian Zionism, and tend to view Israel not only as a modern nation state but through a biblical lens where Israel is seen as a prophetic fullfillment of God that brought the "Jewish people" ie the Chosen people back to their ancient holy land and homeland. The view is driven by dispensationalism that drove religious Christians and biblical literalists' interpretation of Israel's modern creation to unwavering support of Isreal at the religious and political levels. There is also the Israel Lobby in various countries. While South Sudan doesn't have its own official Israel Lobby, most ordinary South Sudanese feel a deep connection to Israel given their strong religious upbrings and Sunday school teachings on stories of the Ancient Israelites overcome adversary in Babylon, Assyria and Ancient Egypt to return to their homeland. Linking the ancient Israelite stories with modern day Israel's past and recent wars with its neighbors creating in the minds of South Sudanese an inspirational heroic, tough Jewish Spartan nation not only rose up like a phoenix out of the horrors of the holocaust like a phoenix, that stands on its own and is a bulwark for the West in the Middle East. This is the story Israel portrays to the wider world as well. Brushing aside the non biblical, historical, geopolitical, social readings and critiques of Israel, many South Sudanese have even drawn parallels with Israel's fight against various neighboring Arab countries Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Egypt to their own fight against the Sudanese government in Khartoum. The ongoing 75 years of Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza of 22% of Palestine is either ignored or dismissed. Being treated as seperate entity from the country, seen as rebel rousers, discriminated against, pushing back against a national policy of Arabization and Islamization carried out across the then Southern Sudan region and the two consecutive Sudanese civil wars that lasted from 1955-77 and 1983-2005. The Israeli government had long supported and provided weapons for the South Sudanese and the SPLM going back to 1960s quite proudly too in search of African allies and what Israeli foreign policy officials once called "peripheral supporters" of Israel and Zionism, justification for its occupation of Palestine and to clean up its image as an occupier to a supporter of minority rights, Israel's own fight against Pan Arabism and Palestinian struggle. In its quest to win hearts and minds of the ordinary people in South Sudan and other African countries, Israelis began providing humanitarian aid in the 1960s, presenting itself as a partner for human rights and medical expertise to the people in its foreign policy outreach beyond the political.

Often left out of the South Sudanese love and support for Israel and Israelis are South Sudanese's own downplayed anti Arab and anti Islamic feelings that still persist today towards their northern neighbor Sudan, other North African and Middle Eastern countries as a consequence of the previous Sudanese Civil War and destruction of South Sudan's people, society, infrastructure and social cohension during the conflict. Inspite of foreign relations with Arab countries, South Sudanese are also apprehensive of long term intentions in their country and often wonder if the UAE and Egypt have genuine interests.

Outreach to Allies old and new

The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and AIPAC are not the only pro Israel, Israel first groups that are reaching out to the public via online media platforms. Smaller community groups in the United States and Europe have been racing to counter global criticism of Israeli collective punishment and brutal military violence in Gaza and West Bank. Since the dominating Israeli voice on Israel Palestine conflict has been broken over the past 15 years by new online media and social media, pro Israel media, pundits, analysts and commentators have been turning to fears and anxieties of global terrorism to justify their actions and military operations not only against Gaza but Hezbollah and even Iran. This is part of the larger Israeli strategy of might makes right self defense and national security at any cost. Israeli analysts, pundits and supporters in their outreach to new and old allies have used Hamas' violence, Oct 7th attacks and Iran to link them to other insurgent groups and conflicts around the world. Even when the insurgents and other conflicts have no connection to Hamas or Iran.

The Jewish Leadership Project is a community organization that focuses on building courageous Jewish leaders to confront the world’s challenges and building an active American Jewish advocacy starting on collage campuses. Looking at its mission statement and plan of action however, paints a different picture. Although it mentions courage, the JLP views the world as dangerous for Jewish people following the Oct 7th attacks and succeeding Pro Palestine global protests against Israel’s by the war on Gaza. How Jewish leaders and other activist have to confront “Jew hatred” sic. Among the great, courageous leaders of conscious the group highlights include Ariel Sharon, Menachim Begin, Golda Meir, Benjamin Netayahu. The homepage rises alarms bells for American Jews on how American college campuses and other public areas have become dangerous as a result of the recent, massive Free Palestine protests most of which were weekend long tents and sit ins. Some Jewish students said they had felt unsafe on campus and tried to claim that the pro Palestine protesters were violent against Jewish students on campus. The protesters were also accused of anti semitism for simply protesting Israeli military actions and war on Gaza and calling out brutal violence against Palestinians. The focus of the pro Palestine protest story in the mainstream media and online changed. The pundits and reporters went from focusing on innocent Palestinian civilians bearing the brunt of Israeli government and military genocide in response Hamas’ October 7th attacks and discussions on human rights for Palestinians and Israel violating international law and committing war crimes. Hamas was also accused of war crimes. Netanyahu was ordered to be sent to the ICC in The Hague, which terrified the pro Issel First Lobby and set a precedent for future and past leaders in Western countries who have discovered that they are not immune from facing international law. The impunity to launch wars, destroy nations, use excessive forces has ran out in the eyes of the rest of the world.

Darfur, Sudan, the lobby’s interfaith outreach with loudest voices

Another outreach organization is the African-Jewish Alliance, a new interfaith coalition of Christians, Muslims and Jews created in March 2024. In the AJA's own words, it was created to “educate the public on religiously-inspired mass murder, kidnapping, and enslavement of blacks read Africans, Jews, and Muslims by jihadists across North Africa and in the Middle East." Also to "oppose Jihad and campaign to free the Jihad captives." An AJA activist even attended a recent city council meeting in East Palo Alto, CA in Sillicon Valley, introducing AJA's resolution at the city meeting to condemn jihad and slavery in Africa." On its substack site, the AJA includes reports, articles and videos on the crisis in Sudan and to a lesser extent the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria. Keep in mind that these are two completely different countries on opposite ends of the continent. The respective conflicts have unrelated origins for occurring and being sustained by proxy players and foreign interests. The recent article highlights the AJA's recently ended two day summit in Washington DC to “raise awareness of Islamic terror in Africa” and its victims in the US Congress. During the summit, experts, activists and survivors from Darfur, South Sudan and Nigeria spoke to congressional members on "Jihadist slavery", terrorism and religious persecution within their respective countries. The urgent call to action of course was Sudan and Darfur since it's Sudan's most familiar region to the congressmen and the reporters who covered the event. Another article from June 16th that announced the then upcoming DC summit reads boldly, “Many Americans are unaware that Oct 7th style terrorist attacks happen every few days in Africa…Sudan, Nigeria…This ongoing atrocity is called a silent genocide…” An AJA activist even attended a recent city council meeting in East Palo Alto, CA in Silicon Valley, introducing a resolution at the city meeting to condemn jihad and slavery in Africa." The AJA also warns that the war on terrorism has not ended but has spread to other world regions and the public should be alert to extremism violence against civilians especially children in West Africa’s Sahel and not forget about Sudan in North Africa. Left out of the article are the historical, political and societal contexts, non religious origins of various regional crises.

The African Jewish Alliance have taken a strong interest in the ongoing conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region, showing genuine sympathy and concern for the Darfuri people. That cannot be overstated. However, it’s only for the African Darfuri: Massalit, Fur, Zaghawa, Daju and various ethnic groups who are portrayed as indigenous, innocent and humanized victims of collective punishment, brutal sieges and ethnic cleansing. While dismissing Darfuri Arabs, the majority civilians as foreigners to Darfur, violent, faceless nomads (Bedouins) and Hamas linked terrorists[sic]. Interestingly it appears that some of human rights advocates and groups who have joined this new group were involved in the Save Darfur Movement in 2003. Simon Deng and the American Anti-Slavery Group, both of whom have been covered earlier in this page and elsewhere, Damanga Coalition, a local Darfuri group documenting everyday life and the disruption the current war, Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel. Dr. Charles Jacobs who is a cofounder of Jewish Leadership Project, well known pro-Israel lobby advocate and unapologetic fighter against “radical ideology” in American schools. More below.

The AJA report on Darfur even starts out with a reference to Israel’s October 7th attack. It goes on to lament the tragedy Darfur and briefly mentions the wider crisis in Sudan. We're already covered how interfaith coalitions played a role alongside well-meaning Jewish organizations, outspoken Zionist, student and a cadre of conservative groups in bringing public attention to Save Darfur movement at the height of War on Terror. It’s not by accident that the former Save Darfur Movement has now joined the outreach campaign of the wider Pro-Israel lobby. The Darfur conflict was not only a massive protest and social movement twenty years ago, driven by human stories from various media reports, the current RSF war against Darfuri civilians under the wider Sudanese conflict plays on the same old war on terrorism fears, tropes and stereotypes of Muslims and Islam, Sudan, Arabs and Africans, North Africa and Middle East. As been said before, Darfur also serves as a guilty reminder and derailment to critics of Israeli occupation, challenging the Christian Zionist hold on Israel-United States relationship and Palestine allies that they are too focus on Palestine and not on Sudan usually reduced down to Darfur. Israelis, Americans and Europeans are quick to dismiss the 37,000+ deaths in Gaza by saying “there’s an actual genocide going on in Darfur.” This was Douglas Murray’s actual words during a recent discussion on Israel Hamas war.

As a side note, Murray isn’t necessarily a sincere sympathizer to Darfuris. He is a well-known British conservative prolific author and self-proclaimed defender of the west speaker who has written numerous books denouncing Islam, painting all Muslims, Iran and Arabs as existential threats to the west. Similar to Pamela Geller, Walid Phares, Daniel Pipes, Murray became prominent during War on terrorism and sees it as a personal mission to stop the Islamization of Europe, Dhimmitude and confronting Muslims via writing and public debates. He sees African and Middle East immigration to Europe as bringing about the death of Europe. This is not exaggeration or metaphor it was the title of his own book Strange death of Europe and many of his fans, pundits and other like minded analysts agree and share his thoughts. They have wrongly condemned immigrants and turned them into scapegoats for every problem facing Britain and Europe. His public image has been slightly transformed from a brash, anti-immigrant writer to something of an intellectual cultural critic known for his recent books the Madness of Crowds and the war on the west and his online speeches have garnered new audiences among intellectuals, moderate and non political crowds.

The African Jewish Alliance’s March press release was authored by Pastor Dumisani Washington, a big-hearted advocate of Christian support for Israel and the founder of the Institute of Black Solidarity for Israel. His interviews and lectures on solidarity and outreach with Israel are featured by Prager University, Erick Stakelbeck Show on TBN and he produces the IBSI’s weekly discussion show with unique speakers. Washington is most famous within his Christian Jewish alliance circles for serving as a long time diversity outreach coordinator for CUFI, Christians United for Israel one of the largest and oldest pro Israel, Christian Zionist organization turned lobby in the United States founded by famed televanelist Pastor John Hagee. Washington helped to create one of CUFI’s main international branch CUFI Africa where he continues media and public outreach in several countries Ghana, Ethiopia, Morocco, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, etc. He speaks and lectures on Israel and its exceptionalism, Zionism, biblical context and its connection to the Black church, Africa and Pan Africanism and why it’s crucial for African people to support Israel compared to Palestine. Washington also authored Zionism & the Black Church: Why Standing with Israel Will be a Defining Issue for Christians of Color in the 21st Century. Washington isn’t the only African American pastor to support Israel and his church isn’t the last. He is the most recent in a long line of concerned people of faith, Christian Zionists, long-standing allies of Israel and Jewish people, protectors of Judeo-Christian relations and traditions. On a non religious note, these groups also reiterate that the special relationship between US and Israel should be preserved given current international events and the ever changing geopolitics of our multipolar world. There are secular groups who have enthusiastically embraced israeli exceptionalism, it’s national mythic story of a Phoenix nation standing up to enemies and often argue Israel has an unquestionable right to defend itself not only military, in the media but in cyberspace and digital sphere.

Many Darfuri and Sudanese Arabs have been victims of the war, yet their names and faces are brushed aside in Western media unless referring the recent Wad Noura massacre in Al Gezira carried out by RSF. The mainstream and independent media have put a much-needed spotlight on the increasing numbers of Sudanese refugees, emphasis on Darfuri refugees (usually the faces the media show are Massalit and other non Arabs) displaced within Sudan, neighbouring countries Libya, Egypt, Chad, South Sudan and even becoming migrants to Europe from Libya. Egypt being both an ancient cousin nation and interconnected with Sudanese history, finds itself stuck between a rock and a hardplace with Sudan’s current conflict. Often overshadowed by the war in Gaza and Ukraine, the news focus on Sudan is greatly needed.* The public is beginning to call out the United Arab Emirates, especially the large Sudanese community in Britain, for the Emirati role in supplying the RSF with weapons, latest drones and other military supplies via the merchants of deaths to continue the unnecessary conflict in Sudan that mirrors the wars in Myanmar and Yemen, two equally under reported conflicts. The current Siege of El Fasher and the focus on Darfur fits into the media’s digestible sound bites, 1 minute news synopsis of ethnic divisions that anyone can follow without the complex historic and social context needed to understand Darfur, RSF’s own complex origins or its Modeus operandi nor its decades long impunity it’s recieved from the Sudanese government long before the recent conflict.

Fighting radical ideology on campus

Returning to Charles Jacobs, he is also the head of the nonprofit organization Americans for Peace and Tolerance which promotes peaceful coexistence in multiethnic America by educating the American high schools and university students about radical ideologies with a focus on fighting antisemitism, anti Zionism, and radical Islam and anti Israel indoctrination via fighting against what it sees as Arab money influencing high school and university students, Middle East programs and students’ critical of Israel and U.S. Foreign policy in the Middle East. It blames Qatari and Saudi funding and their stances on Israel for promoting an anti Israel, pro Arab voices, Palestinian perspectives and “pro Islam” view. It should be said that most Middle East and North Africa programs, emphasizes mutual understanding and cultural exchanges policies revolve around in-depth understanding of society, people and geography with separate tracks on Islam and religion. It further questions where CAIR the Council on American Islamic Relations, a Muslim American national community advocacy and rights organization received its money. Additionally, the APT is supicious of local Islamic organizations and questions why liberal and moderate organizations are sympathetic to Palestine and by default in the organization's eyes anti Jewish and anti common sense "woke groups". ATP’s mission and goals started long before the Oct 7th attacks, current war in Palestine particularly Gaza.

One would think with a name like Americans for Peace and Tolerance, the organization would be working towards building bridges between the ethnic and religious groups within the United States. Or provide conflict resolution mediation between Israelis and Palestinians. It is interesting that the peace and tolerance mission focus on educating university and high school students about “radical ideology” is more concerned with how media imagery and criticism will affect Israel than the United States. Or viewing the Israel Palestine conflict through the lens of the israeli talking point that everyone is against us.

ATP is carrying on a common method used by other conservative, anti Palestinian and Islamophobic lobbying groups claiming to be pro peace and wanting to understand the Middle East, but instead uses fear mongering and orientalist stereotypes to keep the public in fear of their own neighbors, a never ending war on terrorism and cheerleading the military industrial complex in the U.S. and Middle East. And continuing to widen the anxiety and mistrust between the ordinary citizens of the West and Middle East and North Africa without finding a genuine solution to peace or strengthening deeper understanding.

Author’s note: Zionist and pro Israel groups have tried to guilt and shame pro Palestine Jewish groups, African American and African diaspora groups. Liberal Jewish groups, peace activists and advocates for Palestinian human rights are often accused by the Israeli first crowd for being self hating Jews, not Jewish enough or need to toughen up in a dangerous world. We’ve already covered how American Jews have a long history of criticism of Israeli treatment of Palestinians and other non Jewish groups in the country and Israel’s foundational myth as a safe haven for Jewish people while displacing and ethnically cleansing the Palestinians during Israel’s creation. Not mention Israeli political shift from a once, secular and leftist/moderate governemnt to right wing, theocracy that have passed all kinds of laws to favor and privilege Jewish Israelis over other citizens ie Muslims and Christians.

Africans and African Americans are expected to be natural allies of Israel and Jewish people given the history of persecution, dehumanization and discrimination and resistance that African Americans went through in the U.S. and their experience parallels the same Jewish suffering. When African peoples are pro Palestine or call for human rights, end of Israeli settler colonialism and respect for international law for Palestine, as South Africa, Namibia and Guyana did they are guilted into remembering the victims of Palestinian and general Arab violence and slavery especially in Sudan, Mauritania (which is the only time the country is ever brought up in any news) and abuse of migrants in Libya, Tunisia and United Arab Emirates. Another refrain pro Israel, Zionists and now even the newer Pan Africanists use is Palestinians and Arabs don’t care about the struggles of African people but Israelis and American Jews do and have been fighting alongside African peoples. Pan African writers, YouTubers and online activists the “Arabs don’t care about Africans” to avoid speaking about Israel Palestine conflict or even delving into the complexities of the conflict or the wider region. Even when their audience and curious learners want to know more about the conflict, the Pan Africanists who have little to no knowledge on the Israel-Palestine topic, will dismiss it as a non concern for African people. Thus claiming to speak for audience who have advocated for end of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and to reconsider the image of Israel as the innocent bystander facing down thousands of faceless enemies in a perpetual fight for survival since 1948. There are other content creators who take the ignorance is bliss further, urging their listeners to only pay attention to African issues while ignoring crucial global issues. It also creates a rift between Africans and Arabs, ignoring the centuries of interactions and trade between African nations and Middle East. Not mention overlooking the decades of solidarity between Palestinian and African American struggle in the United States for human rights and justice, African and Carribean countries' support for Palestine and anti colonial liberation movements sympathies, non align, third world struggle against the imperial world order of the West and its allies, educating the public on the history and deeply missing context of the Palestine-Israel issue. Pan Africanists tend to repeat a lot of pro Israel talking points without irony and don’t take time to hear different or challenging perspectives.

The missing pieces: Every insurgent group is now terrorist?

* Hamas and Boko Haram aren’t connected to one another at all. It’s the same mistake American and European media analysts make lumping the insurgent groups in Mali ie the Tuareg Azwad Liberation and Burkina Faso in with ISIS and Al Qaeda even though these anti-government insurgent groups predate Al Qaeda and their fight against capital cities of Bamako and Ougagodougo is based on historic, political and societal grievances and issues having nothing to do with wanting to recreate an Islamic Caliphate. For instance, Malian Tuareg rebellion began in 1960s. American and European counter terrorist analysts and military experts ignore the secular aspects of the insurgencies in the Sahel and label any anti-government or anti Western sentiment as borderline terrorism similar to Israeli analysts seeing terrorism in places where it’s not. Or how the Israelis are now trying to portray every Palestinian resistance and militant group as being Hamas or a branch of the Muslim brotherhood when most Palestinian groups PLO, Fatah, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) or the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine(DFLP) and the new Jenin Resistance Group are secular in origins and ideology. A lot of their operations harken back to the revolutionary, left wing, Marxist and socialist, anti imperial/colonialist liberation movements of the 1950s-60s.

* The Sudanese conflict originally began over a military disagreement not a simplistic power struggle as the media wrongly portrays it. The disagreement stemmed from the Sudanese Army hesitation in allowing the undisciplined and impunity driven militia RSF from being integrated within its forces. As the RSF has become a death squad in Darfur and other parts of Sudan killing and massacre innocent civilians who protest or resist its rule, looting of homes and businesses/livelihoods. Another fact that many Western media reporters miss is that more than 90% of the Sudanese people hate the RSF, would prefer to see it collapse and have backed the Sudanese Army inspite of its own war actions. Also ignored are the ongoing political discussions taking place with pro democracy and pro peace Sudanese civilian groups in Cairo and Addis Ababa attempting to find a political not military solution to ending the current conflict. The Taggadum group which includes the former Sudanese Prime Minister Ahmed Hamdok has been holding conferences and workshops on how to return Sudan back to a civilian government rule and a post war democratic society, where the Sudanese military are kept out of civilian governments and regulated to their original function of national defense. In an unusual move, RSF spokesman Youssef Ezzat actually tried to compare the Sudanese Army attacks on RSF with Palestinian attacks on Israel to garner international legitimacy in April 2023. This was several months before the October 7th Hamas attacks on Israel. Ezzat’s claim fell flat on deaf ears.

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 story 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.

Migration in Israel

Despite being Jews or Pro-Israel and even Christian Zionists, African migrants 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 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 Israel. Israeli media uses stereotypes and racist language to describe African 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 and 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. The African 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 Israelis 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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