Israel: the apartheid state - Ilan Pappé

[@GarciaAlfonso]

Courageous and enlightening academic he is brave enough to challenge the propagandistic machinery of Israel and advocate for a human treatment and respect of the Palestinians. My respects to this exceptional human being

[@Raethoric]

You are sweet and funny. thank you for your kindness and innocence.

[@muffy4300]

great man and honest.

[@Makrania]

How does one visit the West Bank? How does one pass through the wall and other checkpoints?

[@janeta97]

Wish Ilan had had more time to talk. I Was learning from this clip.

[@nash984954]

tHIS cOLONIALISATION BEGAN JUST AFTR wwi, AND NOT UNTIL 2010 DID i HEAR A TRUE pALESTINIAN SIDE, WITH FIRST aLISON wEIR, THEN iLAN pAPPE'S tH eTHNIC cLEANSING book, SORRY CAPS I was born in 1950 and not until 2010 did I get the side of the true people's whose injustie being done to them as one thing as am avanet, whereas before the truth was blocked by the Israeli shut down and demonising of any outside view. George Galloway was onboard in the 1970s, but I just was unaware of the voices of others besides him who were with him. like Norman Finkelstein, and younger folks like Max Blumenthal. Professor Pappe is past more than LEFT and farther ahead of most. Democrats aren't really Left anymore. Prof Pappe made a great choice to stand for truth and justice and honesty. Zionism is crime Free Free Palestine.

[@user-tk3fx6lu5u]

The point made on 36:46 about the labor strikes in South Africa toppling apartheid (and not boycotts, divestments, and sanctions alone) is often forgotten. Palestinians are by and large kept out of the Zionist economy. They aren’t used for cheap labor the same way that black South Africans were, and in turn they don’t wield the same power. While BDS is an important tool, it can’t be the only tool

[@Raethoric]

It's only fair. Medina was once a Jewish city. it has been cleansed of all jews. Syria, Irak, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morroco, Kossovo, Albania, Lebanon where once jewish or christian territories. They have been cleansed of all Jews or Christians. Do you expect to be treated differently from what you treat others ? I don't think so. And religious cleansing of Europe and the USA has not yet started. Wait and see.

[@omarmirza9957]

Palestinians never cleansed Jews from Palestine! Be relevant, and stay up to date!

[@Raethoric]

Absolutly right. They couldn't do it, no arab state army could. But they tried hard. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8219864.stm

[@omarmirza9957]

The enemy then consisted of Zionist colonial-settlers, people rightly seen as dangerous gangsters by the Palestinians; indigenous Jews had lived in peace there for a long time, without anybody trying to drive them out.

[@omarmirza9957]

FYI...tragic events like the 1929 massacres took place only after a long period of unsuccessful peaceful resistance to the Zionist colonial-settler project by the indigenous peoples. The British even banned Zionist literature at the behest of the would-be Zionist invaders. What harm had Palestinians ever done to European Jews?

[@Raethoric]

Has it never occured to you that Hebron was founded by the hebrews ? Read its history, and then tell me who is a colonist and who is not. I am sure that if you are a person of good faith, you'll recognize with me that muslim arabs should be removed from Hebron and sent back from where they came. Of all the ancient communities in Israel, none is more ancient than Hebron-the oldest Jewish community in the world. The first mention of Hebron is in Genesis, after the death of the Matriarch Sarah. Genesis 23 relates the story of Abraham approaching the Hittites in Hebron and asking to purchase an empty field in order to build a burial site for his wife (Genesis 23). After he paid for it-insisting on it, though the Hittites were willing to give it to him for free-he buried Sarah, and later, Abraham himself, along with Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob, and Leah were all buried there. Hebron is mentioned dozens of time throughout the Old Testament. Judges 1 describes the conquest of Hebron, and later King David was anointed there (II Samuel 2:5). Even after the destruction of the First Temple, there still existed a Jewish population in Hebron, as described in Nehemia 11. King Herod, during his reign around 35 BCE, built a huge structure over the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the base of which still stands today. Jews continued to be a presence in the city, through the destruction of the Second Temple and the Jewish Revolts against the Romans. There is archaeological evidence of synagogues from the Byzantine period. During the years of Seljuk conquest, in the 7th century, the Jews lived peacefully in Hebron as well. The Crusaders expelled the Jewish community in 1100, but the Jews returned during Mamluk rule. In the 16th century, when Israel was under Ottoman rule, Jews fleeing from Spain arrived in Hebron and established the Avraham Avinu (Abraham our Father) synagogue. The community flourished during the Ottoman Empire, with many Diaspora Jews coming to settle in the city, despite occasional pogroms from the Arab population and an often shaky economic situation. In 1893, the Beit Hadassah building was constructed, which served as a clinic for the Jewish and Arab populations. The Hebron community suffered during the First World War, as the young men were forcibly drafted into the Turkish army, and disease and poverty were rampant. Following the war, though, the community started to recover, and by 1929, the population had risen once again. However, in 1929 the Jews in Hebron were the victims of a brutal, planned, and systematic attack by local Arabs. The Jews and Arabs in Hebron had more or less lived harmoniously, but during the 1920s, there were many incidents of Arabs harassing the Jews. In August of 1929, the Arabs, egged on by rumors that the Jews attacked local Arabs and cursed Mohammad, started rioting in the Old City of Jerusalem. The riots quickly spread, with the worst of the atrocities occurring in Hebron and Safed. Some of the local Arab families in Hebron saved Jews by hiding them in their houses. By the end, sixty-seven Jews had been massacred, including yeshiva students, women, and young children. Some families attempted to move back to Hebron a few years later, but were evacuated by British forces in 1936 due to the Palestinian Arab National Revolt. This effectively ended Jewish presence in Hebron until after the 1967 Six Day War. (Following the 1948 War of Independence, the city fell under Jordanian control.) The town of Hebron is second only to Jerusalem in its holiness. The Jewish people laid claim to the city two millennia ago, when Abraham insisted on purchasing the plot of land.

[@ankon7967]

there was no Palestine and there never will be palestine

[@thebreedinghousewife8818]

keep crying