Weekly Question: How Can Israel’s Supporters Combat Israel Apartheid Week Falsehoods?
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March 8, 2011
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Henry Federman
1:04 am
Mar 10, 2011
Apartheid:A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic discrimination. That’s exactly what the Arabs are doing against women and other non Muslims.And they say that apartheid is found in Israel.Let them go and visit and stay awhile,and let me know how much apartheid they practice .
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Catherine
1:48 am
Mar 10, 2011
Education and using the undeniable facts are the only ways to change the youngsters’ minds in our colleges. Facts about how many Jews live in Palestine as opposed to Arabs in Israel is not debatable. The fact that muslims want to “kill Jews everywhere” and erase Israel should be contrasted with Israel’s safe Arab community and even the participation of Arabs in the government without fear.
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Rita
3:13 am
Mar 10, 2011
I believe that Israel should take a lot of these groups – or representatives of these groups – and bring them to Israel and witness for themselves “the apartheid” that is going on. These people have to see for themselves “what they are fighting for”. They will not believe the truth or facts presented to them, and will only continue believe what they have been brainwashed with. Actual Israeli experience and first hand knowledge is probably the only way to replace and overcome what they have been taught. Otherwise their ignorance and beliefs will just continue. Seeing is believing.
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Lee Rumble
4:31 am
Mar 10, 2011
There’s no easy answer whilst money and resources are the centre of man’s perceived needs; the politicians hide their heads in the sand, probably the majority don’t actually know what is going on. They allow newspaper moguls to print whatever they like and unfortunately a great deal of it is rubbish and or based on their own personal political persuasion and mind set, no matter how untrue or ridiculous. Sadly the public to some degree, believe what is written, without looking into and verifying the content. Even if they are informed they wouldn’t dare say anything for fear of falling foul of the ‘political correct’ fraternity. So silence, passivity and an intimidating atmosphere coupled with the need to work and survive make it difficult for Aussie Bruce or Sheila to have their say.
Maybe lobbying individual politicians, engage them, inundate the media including TV, with the truth at every opportunity. Do what the some minority groups do make a noise, it works for them.
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Reijo
7:33 am
Mar 10, 2011
I agree with your analysis Lee. Unfortunately the tax payer funded ABC, the press gallery in the National Parliament and most of the reporters with the main stream media are consistently biased in favour of the prevailing leftist ideology that is incapable of reporting current affairs in an objective manner.
The broad Australian electorate are becoming more aware of this consistent slant however and day by day, the print media are (by and large) losing credibility.
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Meyer
4:33 am
Mar 10, 2011
The best way to do this is for us to be visible as Jews, doing good deeds. Unfortunately, we have assimilated so well that we are invisible.
While not frum, I have taken to wearing a kippah to work, to the shops, etc. If more Jewish males did this, then we would be demystified as a people, and it would be harder for people to swallow the anti Israel stuff in the face of the normal and nice Jewish people that they know. At the very least, they will talk about issues with you and give you the opportunity to express the alternative view.
We can talk about Israel being a free and fair society, one where the majority of Arab citizens have stated they would prefer to live even after the creation of a Palestinian state; where women are free, homosexuals are not persecuted, the press is free, the courts independent and the elections honest, in contrast to the Arab nations around it. Arabs and other minorities are integrated into Israeli society as equals, but the Arab countries are mostly Judenrein. Which model more closely resembles apartheid? Any questions about the wall should be answered with an enthusiastic, positive view of it – prior to its existence, we regularly heard about homicide bombings in markets, shops, hotels, where hundreds were maimed and killed each time. The wall has stopped all that.
There are other benefits I’ve experienced from wearing a kippah, and these include:
(1) Knowing that I’m visible and an ambassador for Jews everywhere, my standard of behaviour has lifted, making me into a better person;
(2) I am reminded by the kippah to be kind to people and now perform more tikkun olam actions;
(3) I have become a better role model for my kids; and
(4) My life has become more spiritual, with the kippah a reminder at various stages during the day of G-d’s presence. Previously, I would rush through each day and be caught totally in its physicality, without any soul nourishment. That has started to change, and it’s nice.
I know that this can be a big step for someone, but look at the Moslem women around you – if they can wear their traditional dress in public, why should us males worry about a kippah?
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Carol
4:46 am
Mar 10, 2011
A friend suggested that we mount an equally visible campaign called “Palestine Democracy Week,” during which we declare support for rights Palestinians don’t have and give reasons why. Eyecatching oxymoron.
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Judy
2:37 pm
Mar 10, 2011
How about taking them on at their own game? Lets mount an Israel Apartheid Week which shows the success of the wall in reducing suicide bombing, the active participation of Arabs etc in all facets of Israeli life etc and then folk can see that if this is Apartheid then it makes sense as to why Arab Israelis want to keep their nationality.
And what about mounting an Arab Apartheid week? There’s no shortage of material.
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Harry
4:02 pm
Mar 10, 2011
Having lived in South Africa for 72 years and visited Israel on a number of occasions, I realise that either:
1) persons accusing Israel of apartheid have no idea of what apartheid was , or
2) they are using a typical Nazi propaganda tool to demonise Israel.
There is certainly no discrimination between Jews and non Jews in Israel.
How about scrutinising the policies of the Arabs on the West Bank
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Steve Mann
5:06 pm
Mar 10, 2011
First can we stop using the term “Arab” Israeli- This gives the Ignorant the feeling that they are segregated- There are Muslim Israelis, Christian Israelis and beside the majority Jewish there are Israelis of no-faith and others.
This is then a secular land with a Jewish or Hebrew base- As is Ireland with a Catholic base and the UK with a protestant base.
Then can we stop calling the Stateless refugees “Palestinians” again this gives rise to the ignorant thinking and saying that the “Jews stole the Palestinians land”-
The worlds citizens should know that there never was a sovereign Palestinian state.
I am totally frustrated to hear politicians quoted in the media saying, “The Israeli/Palestinian conflict!
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Amit Sade
3:27 pm
Mar 13, 2011
I just want to say to Steve that dividing Israelis according to religion will also play to the hands of our rivals, giving them support to the claim the a Jew is only religion and not nation. indeed the Arabs are Arabs some of them are christians and some muslims we shouldn’t be affraid to say it The basis for our claim is that Israel is the national homeland of the jewish people/nation and the minority of Arabs, be they muslims or chritians have equal rights to all other.
I think doing a counteract of aparthied week in the Arab countries is a god idea.
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Dvirah
5:51 pm
Mar 16, 2011
We can point out that if Israel practices “Apartheid” against the Palestinians, then the US practices Apartheid against Mexico and Canada. After all, Mexicans and Canadians are not allowed to just enter the country as they like: they need visas and passports. There are recognized border crossing points and every entrant must pass security and customs checks – just like at the Israeli crossing points.
We can further point out that the word “Apartheid” means “segregation” (perhaps someone’s grandparents remember this in the US?) which, being a difference in the rights between various citizen populations, is an internal matter in a country. Thus by calling Israel an “Apartheid State”, they are in effect saying that the land ceeded to the Palestinians still legitimately belongs to Israel and that the Palestinian Authority is not a legitimate governmental body.
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Loretta
10:18 pm
Mar 16, 2011
If the Arabs refuse to let Jews into their areas to live, shop and sight-see wouldn’t that be the true apartheid?
If Christians and Jews are being slowly driven out of the Palestinian areas, wouldn’t that be religious/ethnic cleansing?
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Jean Terry
11:53 pm
Mar 16, 2011
There is no apartheid in Israel. There is major apartheid in Arab countries and it is not safe for Israelis to go to the Palestinian sectors of Israel. What a crazy thing to promote. I would say the Iranians and other Muslim countries are eagerly doing and trying to do total ethnic cleansing. Just like Hitler.
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Romano
12:07 am
Mar 17, 2011
Expose the serious incidents of incitement to hate/kill Jews = where the true goal comes about.
2) Noted leaders damning the ‘Apartheid slur’ is positivie. 9so far google gives us around 80,000 results for the term: ‘apartheid slur.’
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Niklas Schier
4:08 am
Jul 28, 2011
By getting organised and counter protesting use every method you have to get your views across to the world and try to get as much press coverage as you can by using imaginative ways to get that message across.
Those that claim Israel is an Apartheid state are the ones that really practice Apartheid so highlight this constantly.
The Pro-Palestinians in the UK use the socialists as they know all about propoganda but Israel has the truth on its side use that truth and organise all year round in your communities badger the press and your politicians to get your point across in other words understand that the repeated lies of the Palestinians eventually get believed becaus of the sheer repetitition of their lies.
You have the truth keep parading the truth and challenge their lies every time in every way you can dont be lazy about it or put it off Israel depends on you all to fight in every way.
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Sylvie Schapira
11:04 am
Jul 28, 2011
I feel the frustration that is expressed in all these comments; and spend a great deal of my time responding to articles in the media that are distorted, ignorant or lying. But I have not had one letter published. Writing letters to the press in this country just does not work. I have to assume that it is because I am pro-Israel. Perhaps the only way to get such attention is to organise street protests with banners proclaiming that Israel is not an apartheid country. I too lived for a few years in South Africa, in the 1960′s and have seen what apartheid really is.
Jewish people are few in number compared to other minorities, but we have to stand up and make ourselves seen and heard – regardless of the fears we may face about that.
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Meyer
1:23 pm
Jul 28, 2011
I agree with Sylvie. To get noticed by the press, there has to be an event. Someone should organise a demonstration or Arab Apartheid Week or something similar, and it will get coverage everywhere. Then our spokespeople will be seen on national TV stations telling the truth about exactly who is practising apartheid and who is not. Better than writing to newspapers…
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Robert Feinstein
1:04 pm
May 26, 2012
Let’s have an Arab Apartheid Week, for Arab nations are ther actual practitioners of Apartheid.
Ask any Kurd, Berber, or Copt….to bname just three of the minority groups that have suffered from Arab Apartheid. And in Libya, the Arabs are butchering Black people wholesale. It’s genocide there.
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