JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is the homeland “only of the Jewish people,” in a new jab at the country’s Arab minority ahead of April’s election.
Netanyahu on Sunday addressed “slightly confused people” after an Israeli celebrity defended the rights of Israel’s Arab population. Arabs comprise about 20 percent of Israel’s 9 million residents. They have full citizenship rights but have faced decades of discrimination.
On Saturday, actress Rotem Sela denounced Netanyahu’s frequent talking point that his political rival will form a government with Arab political parties.
“When the hell will someone in this government tell the public that Israel is a country of all its citizens,” Sela wrote on Instagram.
Netanyahu responded: Israel “is the national state, not of all its citizens, but only of the Jewish people.”
Israel is an apartheid state cleverly disguised as an apartheid state run by a first-class bigot.
Would somebody explain to me why we support this monster and his apartheid government. This comment alone would seem to be a slap in the face of everything America is supposed to stand for.
“X is the national state, not of all its citizens”
I’d be curious to know how this read in the original Hebrew, assuming he said it in Hebrew and I spoke Hebrew. In English it’s just nonsensical.
Why do right wingers always circle around to eliminationism?