722,000 Israeli Jews living illegally in Palestine

American blogger Richard Silverstein features a revealing figure from a leading Israeli newspaper: Yisrael HaYom published… today one of the more stark and telling statistics about the ”˜success’ of the Occupation: in 2011, 722,000 Israelis lived beyond the Green Line, including in settlements and East Jerusalem. … This was a 5% increase over 2010. … That means that…

Only in Israel; Zionist democracy in action over racist Citizenship Law

The Magnes Zionist: Yesterday, the State of Israel became the first western state whose High Court ruled that some citizens have fewer fundamental rights than other citizens based on their ethnicity. Actually, it had done so before, but yesterday it rejected…  the most sustained challenge to the “Citizenship Law,” which bars the non-Israeli spouses of…

Day in the life of anti-democratic Israel

One (via the New York Times): Two weeks after ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem… wore yellow stars and striped prison uniforms, invoking Nazi Germany to protest what they called their persecution by secular Israelis, Israel’s Parliament moved closer to approving a bill that would ban the display of Third Reich symbols and even make it a crime…

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