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...appalled to read Faisal Chaudry’s racist op-ed in which he calls Israel??s control over the West Bank and Gaza Strip a “racist colonial occupation.” He also tries to play the race card by describing “white Israeli soldiers destroy[ing] refugee camps of the brown people they have dispossessed for decades.” He seems to forget that hundreds of thousands of Jewish Israelis are from Ethiopian and Arab nations. To reduce the Mideast conflict to racism shows a lack of understanding...
First of all, it is preposterous to suggest that there is a racial conflict. Many Jews in Israel came from (indeed, were expelled from) Arab countries and are racial brothers to Arabs. In fact, that’s part of what makes it difficult to maintain security within Israel??it is not clear who is friend or foe just by looking. Moreover, it’s just untrue that all Israeli soldiers are white. Hailing from across the world—with immigrants from Ethiopia and Morocco, from the Former Soviet Union and India, Israel...
Israel does not raid refugee camps and deny basic human rights (such as access to clean drinking water, food, sanitation and security) to Palestinians because they may be of a darker shade than most Israelis. Israel??s actions, rather, stem from a misconception that Israeli security can be guaranteed through the muting and virtual subjugation of the Palestinian peoples. That the Israeli soldiers conducting raids into the occupied territories are “whiter” than the Palestinians they are uprooting is merely coincidental, and therefore inconsequential...
Chaudhry rightly points out the need for questioning America’s weak and indecisive response to excesses committed by Israel in its Occupied Palestinian Territories. It is disappointing to see him undermine what is otherwise a very legitimate and necessary criticism of Israel??s excesses through unnecessary reference to color...
...move came just a day after he was arrested along with about 20 others for blocking the street outside the State Department in Washington. The protesters, led by West and his close friend Rabbi Michael Lerner, were detained for nine hours Thursday for standing in the street to protest Israel??s occupation of the West Bank...