June 27, 2007
Apartheid Comes to New Jersey
Saifedean Ammous in the Columbia Spectator:
It was a cold Sunday morning in Teaneck, N.J. Some two-hundred-odd Jewish-Americans were entering the Orthodox synagogue Congregation B'nai Yeshurun where they were to hear a sales pitch by the Amana Settlement Movement aimed at convincing them to buy homes in illegal Israeli settlements.
America, the land that gave the world the separation of church and state, is hosting an auction where only members of one religious group can buy property.
And here I am, a Palestinian who grew up hundreds of meters away from some of these very settlements. I cannot buy any of these houses and am not admitted into the auction room. Literally and figuratively left out in the cold, I light a cigarette and get over it immediately; being denied entry is not an entirely novel experience for a Palestinian.
More here.
Posted by S. Abbas Raza at 01:51 PM | Permalink
Comments
Abbas,
Thanks for the article. This is just one slice of reality that fuels the hate and violence in the Middle East most Americans know very little about.
This website is a jewel. Keep up the good work.
Posted by: ali | Jun 28, 2007 10:49:04 AM
Right, because, according to a uniform standard, Israel is by far the worst, if not the only, country in the region to practice anything that could be called apartheid.
One might propose that a reader follow any one of the links at this page
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1806378/posts
Or check out this photo - it's a beauty
http://www.antisemittisme.no/images/arab-islam/mecca-apartheid1.jpg
Posted by: Pseud | Jun 28, 2007 4:57:55 PM
Pseud, you usually leave your blindly-supportive-of-Israel comments under a different pseudonym (which I won't mention, since you seem quite paranoid). How many pseudonyms do you need? What are you so afraid of? (Just curious...)
Posted by: Abbas Raza | Jun 28, 2007 5:13:23 PM
Pseud-
You need a value system. Nothing that any other country does excuses israel's apartheid. Nothing. No one else has to pass a moral purity test in order for Israel to be wrong about this.
Posted by: davey chuck | Jun 29, 2007 3:04:48 PM
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