[News] Israeli channel airs call to expel all Palestinians
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https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-channel-airs-call-expel-all-palestinians
Israeli channel airs call to expel all Palestinians
Ali Abunimah <https://electronicintifada.net/people/ali-abunimah> - 18
June 2019
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The Israeli international TV channel i24 News last week aired a call for
the total ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
“There will never, ever be a two-state solution,” British far-right
demagogue Katie Hopkins
<https://electronicintifada.net/tags/katie-hopkins> stated. “Israel will
become the super force here. You will have to have a one-state solution.”
But she wasn’t talking about a single state with equal rights for all.
Controversial commentator @KTHopkins
<https://twitter.com/KTHopkins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> tells
@amikaufman <https://twitter.com/AmiKaufman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>,
‘there will never be #peace
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/peace?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> in
#Israel
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
until you remove the people who don’t belong there,’ adding there
will ‘never ever’ be a #twostatesolution
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/twostatesolution?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>:
pic.twitter.com/AprtpCMslj <https://t.co/AprtpCMslj>
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) June 10, 2019
<https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1138191312010788864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
“There will not be peace in Israel until you remove the people who don’t
belong there,” Hopkins asserted.
Another guest, former Israeli diplomat Daniel Shek, objected that they –
the Palestinians – “are indigenous people, not migrants.” But Hopkins
added that “it will be a one-state solution, and in so far as you will
have to remove certain individuals, you would just take more land.”
Shek asked: “You mean 50 percent of the population will have to go?”
“Yes, they will have to go,” Hopkins affirmed. “If some of their
population still stab you with knives, then I would say yes, the rest
have to go.”
Palestinians constitute half – and likely a slight majority
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/army-presents-figures-showing-arab-majority-in-israel-territories-1.5940676>
– of the approximately 13 million people who live in what is today
Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Hopkins’ call for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians may even meet the
international legal definition
<https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crimeofgenocide.aspx>
of genocide.
The Genocide Convention defines numerous acts as genocide if they are
committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.”
Indeed, prominent scholars of genocide argue that Israel’s policies
towards the Palestinian people over decades constitute a form of
genocide
<https://ccrjustice.org/genocide-palestinian-people-international-law-and-human-rights-perspective>.
In recent years, Israeli political leaders have habitually advanced
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israels-genocidal-political-culture>
genocidal
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-lawmakers-call-genocide-palestinians-gets-thousands-facebook-likes>
plans
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/eu-refuses-condemn-israeli-genocide-plan>
for the expulsion of the Palestinians and their destruction as a
national collective
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/concentrate-and-exterminate-israel-parliament-deputy-speakers-gaza-genocide-plan>.
“Natural home”
Hopkins is a notorious far-right racist who has caught the favorable
<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-sadiq-khan-tweet-london-mayor-stabbings-a8960476.html>
attention of US President Donald Trump for her Islamophobic vitriol.
She has a well-documented record
<https://tellmamauk.org/tag/katie-hopkins/> of using her high-profile
media appearances to spread conspiracy theories and incite racial,
ethnic and religious hatred.
Here's arch-racist Katie Hopkins blaming "Soros NGOs" for critical
coverage of Israel.
I wrote in March about how this antisemitic conspiracy theory is
perpetuated by Zionist fanatics and the rest of the fascist right
https://t.co/9Rsq2Jst2h pic.twitter.com/ELKHugldeN
<https://t.co/ELKHugldeN>
— Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) June 17, 2019
<https://twitter.com/AsaWinstanley/status/1140631795173658625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
Hopkins also used her i24 News appearance to claim
<https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/1560205518-in-i24news-exclusive-uk-commentator-katie-hopkins-claims-muslims-are-driving-jews-out-of-western-europe>
that Muslims are “forcing the Jews out of western Europe,” as well as
her “own population.”
And in perhaps one of her only credible statements – politically
speaking at least – she called Israel her “natural home.”
Hopkins embodies the increasingly
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-lobbyists-shield-white-supremacists-after-synagogue-attack>
warm embrace
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/why-has-israeli-nazi-hunter-embraced-germanys-neo-nazis>
between Israel
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-embarrassed-its-holocaust-denying-allies-poland>,
on the one hand, and far-right
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/german-neo-nazi-lawmaker-charged-hate-speech-big-israel-fan>
Islamophobes, white supremacists
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/zionist-white-supremacist-alliance-trumps-white-house>,
anti-Semites
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/netanyahu-advisers-hatched-anti-semitic-conspiracy-against-george-soros>
and neo-Nazis
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/neo-nazi-richard-spencer-says-he-turns-israel-guidance>
in Europe and North America, on the other.
She has previously referred
<https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/katie-hopkins-when-is-enough-enough-10186490.html>
to migrants in Europe as “cockroaches.”
Hopkins was perhaps channeling
<https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/24/obituaries/rafael-eitan-75-exgeneral-and-chief-of-staff-in-israel-dies.html>
Rafael Eitan, the army chief who commanded Israel’s 1982 invasion of
Lebanon and once notoriously called Palestinians “drugged cockroaches in
a bottle.”
Nothing to see here, folks - just an Israeli news outlet giving a
platform to a virulent islamophobe calling for the ethnic cleansing
of 6 million Palestinians. https://t.co/lqqwLviEd2
— Khaled Elgindy (@elgindy_) June 17, 2019
<https://twitter.com/elgindy_/status/1140602651463356416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
That Shek challenged Hopkins’ call for the ethnic cleansing of millions
of people in no way mitigates i24 News’ responsibility for airing
dangerous racist incitement.
Would any channel defend as legitimate debate, say, a discussion on
whether Jews should be expelled from Europe, or whether slavery should
be reinstated in the United States? Even if free speech entitles people
to hold such repugnant and abhorrent views, no media platform is
obligated to give them space.
Some matters are beyond debate, and to provide their adherents with a
platform in any format serves only to legitimize extremist viewpoints.
Yet i24 News is attempting to whitewash and downplay Hopkins’ comments
as merely “controversial” – that is to say within the scope of
acceptable debate.
EU embraces racist municipalities
The intense and arguably genocidal racism
<https://electronicintifada.net/tags/racism> Hopkins expresses is all
too common
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-everyday-israelis-express-support-genocide>
and normalized
<https://mondoweiss.net/2014/03/abunimahs-justice-palestine/> in Israel,
an ethno-state where Palestinians are conceived first and foremost as a
“demographic threat
<https://electronicintifada.net/tags/demographic-threat>” to the
violently gerrymandered
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/gaza-massacre-price-jewish-state>
Jewish majority.
The mayor of Afula participated in a protest in front of a house in
his town because it was sold to Palestinians (w Israeli
citizenship). That racist was actually elected w a campaign promise
to keep Arabs out of town
HT @NoaShpigel
<https://twitter.com/NoaShpigel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>https://t.co/IgZJ2MZZWW
— Asaf Ronel (@AsafRonel) June 16, 2019
<https://twitter.com/AsafRonel/status/1140306157275373569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
A fresh example of that came last Saturday when the mayor and city
council members in the northern city of Afula
<https://electronicintifada.net/tags/afula> took part in a demonstration
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/afula-mayor-attends-demonstration-against-sale-of-home-to-arab-family/>
against the sale of a home to an Arab family.
Council member Itai Cohen told media the municipality would continue to
“ensure that Afula preserves its Jewish character.”
“Anyone looking for a mixed city – Afula is not the address,” Cohen told
Israeli army radio on Sunday. “We are a right-wing place with Jewish
characteristics.”
The demonstration was joined by members of Lehava
<https://electronicintifada.net/tags/lehava>, a Jewish extremist group
that agitates against mixed marriages
<https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-steps-its-war-mixed-marriages/25051>
and whose members habitually participate
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-israeli-mobs-celebrate-jerusalem-day-anti-palestinian-rampage-old-city>
in violent rampages
<https://electronicintifada.net/content/video-let-palestine-be-wiped-out-sings-jerusalem-day-mob/20651>
calling for Palestinians to be “wiped out.”
With the blessing of state-financed official rabbis
<https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-turns-blind-eye-racist-state-employed-rabbis/9134>
and legislation
<https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/03/30/israel-new-laws-marginalize-palestinian-arab-citizens>,
Israeli municipalities regularly act
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israeli-town-halts-property-sales-after-realizing-most-buyers-were-palestinians>
to prevent integration
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israels-war-its-palestinian-citizens>
and equal housing opportunities for Palestinian citizens in Israel
<https://electronicintifada.net/content/new-pappe-book-highlights-plight-forgotten-palestinians/10668>.
Good meeting this morning with Haim Bibas chairman of the Federation
of Local Authorities in Israel to deepen cooperation between the
🇪🇺and 🇮🇱 municipalities. pic.twitter.com/NSl97wHXsm
<https://t.co/NSl97wHXsm>
— Emanuele Giaufret (@EGiaufretEU) May 22, 2019
<https://twitter.com/EGiaufretEU/status/1131182548019798016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
This systematic racism has done nothing to deter the self-declared human
rights champions at the European Union from embracing Israeli
municipalities.
Last month, Emanuele Giaufret
<https://electronicintifada.net/tags/emanuele-giaufret>, the EU
ambassador in Tel Aviv, met
<https://twitter.com/EGiaufretEU/status/1131182548019798016> the chair
of the Federation of Local Authorities in Israel to “deepen cooperation
between the EU and Israeli municipalities.”
There is no indication that the EU is requiring Israeli municipalities
to end their racism against Palestinians and people from African states
<https://electronicintifada.net/tags/africans-israel> as a condition for
such cooperation.
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