What the fuck the Israeli authorities are doing

 

Jeffrey St. Clair 

The courts are already about as hostile as they can get toward Palestinians. This week an Israeli court approved the forced removal of all 500 residents of Ras Jrabah, an historical Bedouin village,  to make way for the expansion of Jewish settlers in the suburbs of the city of Dimona, home of the Israeli nuclear research labs. Despite the village of Ras Jrabah predating the establishment of Israel and the court’s acknowledgement that the residents have been living on the same plots for almost 50 year, the court still found this insufficient reason to grant the Bedouins any rights to their lands.

+ The American Anthropological Association (AAA) voted to endorse a boycott of Israeli academic institutions and sever ties with Israeli universities over their role in discriminating against Palestinians.

+ Even Israeli businesses are beginning to leave the apartheid state. Nearly 70% of Israeli startups have taken action to relocate parts of their business outside Israel.

+ Sinead O’Connor: “Nobody with any sanity, including myself, would have anything but sympathy for the Palestinian plight. There’s not a sane person on earth who in any way sanctions what the fuck the Israeli authorities are doing.”