“As a public intellectual, Shahak wrote about the Israeli government’s actions against the non-Jewish citizens of the State of Israel, such as the suppression of freedom of speech and general political activity; land ordinances, living restrictions, and the confiscation of lands from non-Jews; the destruction of houses; legally-sanctioned unequal pay and work restrictions; emergency-defence regulations allowing the summary arrest, detention, and torture of prisoners (civil and military); the collective punishment of communities; the assassinations of leaders (religious, political, academic); racial discrimination in access to education; and the deprivation of Israeli citizenship.[9] Such political activities earned Shahak much hostility and death threats; after the 1982 Lebanon War (June 1982 – June 1985), Shahak also reported Israeli abuses of the populations of Lebanon.[7]
“In effort to explain the behaviour of the State of Israel towards their Arab neighbours, Shahak proposed that the Israeli interpretation of Jewish history produced a society who disregard the human rights of the Arab peoples, within Israel and around Israel.[13] That Zionism was a ‘régime based on structural discrimination and racism’.”
Backed by US arms, money, and political support, the Israeli government’s long-term campaign to take Palestinian land and to kill or push out the non-Jewish population is picking up:
Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion – Politico
Israel approves largest West Bank land seizure in three decades, rights group says – CNN
The decades-long invasion of the West Bank continues. As does the displacement, killing, and starvation of civilians in Gaza:
Israel Is Ordering the Biggest Displacement of Gazans Since October – WSJ
Israel’s starvation policy in Gaza is forcing people to eat tree leaves – Mondoweiss
The “Land of the Free” Has Been the Enemy of Freedom Around the World – truthout
“For hundreds of millions across the world, the stars and stripes are symbols of US empire, not independence.”