April 14
GUEST: Rasha, immigrant rights activist and fundraiser for nonprofits working for human rights, mental health and peacebuilding, talks about her family's forced separation when they attempted to visit a dying relative in Palestine.
Israel’s cruel policy of keeping families apart
Rasha provided a personal account of what it is like living in or even visiting an apartheid state. Every rule is different, based on one's religion and ethnicity. Do that long enough, and one loses a sense of human rights. One class of people has everything, while the other class is treated like little more than animals.
I wonder how this effects Zionists living in the US. Are they more likely to view some people as less than deserving? One group as subhuman when it comes to separation or suffering? One group whose existence is little more than a joke?
Perhaps the complete acceptance of racism distinguishes pro-Israeli groups in the US. They are often not progressive at all, having cast their lot with our most dangerous fascist, Donald Trump. Zionist groups are often exposed as funders of racism, or at least as proponents of Islamophobia. The Clarion Fund, a group that links conservative causes to overseas funders operating in Israel, spent $18 million distributing the racist film "Obsession," both to police groups and to the general public. That's big money from Israel behind the push to bring apartheid to American shores.
Zionist groups form natural alliances with the extreme right in our own country. America can't support racism and apartheid in Palestine without bringing the evils of race hatred to our own shores. It's the price we all pay for being tied to the racist state of Israel.
