Another Desperate And Fake Israeli Apartheid Report Readied For The Airwaves

Acceptance of Amnesty’s report depends upon an uninformed public unaware of the facts.

For example, the report spotlights the discredited notion that innocent Arabs are being evicted from their ancient homes in the Sheik Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem. By now it has been well documented that Jews legally purchased and properly registered the land in the 1800s from the Ottoman authorities to worship close to revered Rabbi Simon the Just’s tomb. The Jewish neighborhood housed forty families until Jordan’s illegal 1948 invasion, when it stole the land and then illegally gave it away.

When Israel reclaimed the stolen land after the Six Day War in 1967, those recent Arab tenants stayed on, paying a pittance of rent until it became more profitable to pretend that they owned the tracts—causing protracted legal action and judgments they ignored, subsequently leading to eviction. This becomes apartheid in the hands of Amnesty—but in reality, it’s actually a garden variety landlord–tenant case.

Likewise, Amnesty does not want anyone to remember that approximately half of Israel’s population is not descended from the likes of far off Miami and Brooklyn but from the likes of regional climes such as Morocco and Baghdad from where Arab states expelled some 850,000 Jews stateless and penniless, largely into Israel, in the biggest and most public ethnic cleaning in history.

Nor does anyone mention that until 1964, Jewish Zionists in their internationally recognized homeland were globally referred to as “Palestinians,” and the Arabs were referred to as “Arabs.” Then in 1964, the KGB and the Arab League created the Palestine Liberation Organization. Those two sponsors helped the Arabs commit identity theft and then expropriate the term “Palestinians” for themselves.