State Anti-Semitism and Political Persecutions

Thursday, 20 May 2010 15:36
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In the Czarist Empire, in which a majority of the Zionist leaders were educated and where their world view was formed, anti-Semitism was one of the clear means of defence of the backwards regime. Each time that any internal threat to the regime, popular discontent or scandal popped up related to the political leadership, the secret political police, a body like the Israeli General Security Services (GSS), organized incitement against the Jews. The accepted slogan was: “hit the Jews and save Russia.” The anti-Semitic state organized pogroms, issued abritrary orders and limitations, invented tales and slander and attempted to divert public opinion away from the government actions, and to direct its fury toward the national minority.


ameer-makhoulLike the Provoslavic leadership in Russia that defended the extra rights of the Russian aristocracy, the Jewish leadership in Israel employs the mechanism of darkness at its disposal to fan hatred toward the Palestinian national minority for internal political reasons. In the face of American pressure to conduct negotiations with the Palestinians, those responsible for security of the Apartheid state attempt to frighten and neuter the Palestinian citizens of Israel, those not under the Palestinian Authority,and who oppose surrendering to Israeli dictates. As part of this same internal terror against the minority population, the GSS invented an evil and malicious tale. Public figures Ameer Makhoul and Dr. Omar Said were detained as suspects in “espionage,” i.e. we are asked to believe that they seemingly held Israeli state security secrets and gave them to the enemy! They were denied the right to meet with their legal counsel and are being interrogated by the GSS – the same body which for numerous years busied itself with the torture and murder of Palestinians and was exposed not once in courts as prepared to lie and invent evidence. Those responsible for these crimes against democracy were never punished and not even tried in court.


 

We do not believe in the tales written by the GSS. We do not believe that Arab public figures violated the law in any way. They never worked in the military headquarters or Ministry of Security. Their only sin is asking that the state of which they are citizens will become a democratic state. They, like us, object to Zionism and perceive it as a racist ideology which necessarily results in the praxis of ethnic cleansing and the denial of the indigenous population of their rights. 


The lies against Ameer Makhoul and Dr. Omar Said and their extended detention are intended solely for one purpose: to poison public opinion and prevent cooperation between Jews and Arabs against apartheid and oppression. Such cooperation is gaining momentum, despite the efforts of the Israeli authorities, throughout this land: in various Jerusalem neighbourhoods, the Bedouin villages in the Negev, in Jaffa, Bi’ilin, Lod, Na’alin and additional centres of apartheid. Jewish and Palestinian residents are no longer willing to allow the mechanism of darkness to do as it wishes and abuse the innocent in order to serve an evil political system whose time has passed. The days of the organized pogroms, we must hope, are long gone. Dr. Omar and Ameer Makhoul must be immediately released and the false charges against them wiped out. 

 

Eli Aminov is a member of the Committee for a Secular and Democratic State.
This article was translated to English by the Alternative Information Center (AIC).