Kenneth Jacobson
The Times of Israel, Feb. 5, 2022
“To claim that Israel conducts an apartheid system toward its Arab citizens when there is no evidence to sustain that bespeaks a bias against the very idea of a Jewish state.”
In a world where criticism of the State of Israel and its policies is hardly unusual, the newly issued Amnesty International report stands out for its offensiveness and destructiveness.
Reaching even beyond problematic reports such as that of Human Rights Watch, which falsely characterized Israeli policy in the West Bank as “apartheid,” Amnesty International in a report issued Tuesday went so far as to call Israel itself rotten to its core and born in original sin.
All this is based on the proposition that a Jewish state is, by definition, illegitimate. All of which ignores so much history and reality that it boggles the mind.
Israel came into being because there was recognition of the thousands of years of Jewish connection to the land of Israel and because the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust made clear in the most horrible way that Jews needed a home of their own. The United Nations resolution of 1947 recognized those Jewish connections and rights and also recognized the rights of Palestinians living there as well.
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