UC Irvine Student: “Apartheid State of Israel Carries Out Holocaust”
Charles Johnson
Wed May 17, 2006 at 4:42 pm PDT • Views: 179
A Muslim student at UC Irvine, where MSU Hate Week is now under way, explains in an article for the school’s New University paper that he’s sick and tired of being labeled an antisemite just for saying Israel is carrying out an apartheid Holocaust: Apartheid State of Israel Carries Out Holocaust. (Hat tip: Terp Mole.)
Why preface it with the ugly “A” word? Because I believe that the state of Israel, with its racist policies against the Palestinians and illegal occupation of their land, is an apartheid state.
Since 1906, when the Zionist congress decided to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine, Zionist forces, first underground terrorist militias like the Haganah and Igron and then Israel’s Occupational Forces, have attempted to systematically annihilate Palestinians, and drive them out of their land by oppression, torture and humiliation. The Palestinians have and continue to resist this injustice.
As a direct result of the creation of the state of Israel, there are 6 million Palestinian refugees today—comprising around three-quarters of the Palestinian people, and nearly one-third of the global refugee population.
One might disagree with the the [sic] opinions above. That’s perfectly fine.
However, what is completely ridiculous is to be accused of anti-Semitism every time I, or any other member of the campus community, criticize the apartheid state of Israel.
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