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<h1 class="reader-title">Israeli channel airs call to expel all
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<span class="field field-author"><a
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<p>The Israeli international TV channel i24 News last
week aired a call for the total ethnic cleansing of
the Palestinian people.</p>
<p>“There will never, ever be a two-state solution,”
British far-right demagogue <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/katie-hopkins">Katie
Hopkins</a> stated. “Israel will become the super
force here. You will have to have a one-state
solution.”</p>
<p>But she wasn’t talking about a single state with
equal rights for all.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Controversial commentator <a
href="https://twitter.com/KTHopkins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KTHopkins</a>
tells <a
href="https://twitter.com/AmiKaufman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@amikaufman</a>,
‘there will never be <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/peace?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#peace</a>
in <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israel</a>
until you remove the people who don’t belong
there,’ adding there will ‘never ever’ be a <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/twostatesolution?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#twostatesolution</a>:
<a href="https://t.co/AprtpCMslj">pic.twitter.com/AprtpCMslj</a></p>
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) <a
href="https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1138191312010788864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June
10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>“There will not be peace in Israel until you remove
the people who don’t belong there,” Hopkins asserted.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>Shek asked: “You mean 50 percent of the population
will have to go?”</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>Palestinians constitute half – and <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/army-presents-figures-showing-arab-majority-in-israel-territories-1.5940676">likely
a slight majority</a> – of the approximately 13
million people who live in what is today Israel, the
occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>Hopkins’ call for the ethnic cleansing of
Palestinians may even meet the <a
href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crimeofgenocide.aspx">international
legal definition</a> of genocide.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>Indeed, prominent scholars of genocide argue that
Israel’s policies towards the Palestinian people over
decades <a
href="https://ccrjustice.org/genocide-palestinian-people-international-law-and-human-rights-perspective">constitute
a form of genocide</a>.</p>
<p>In recent years, Israeli political leaders have
habitually <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israels-genocidal-political-culture">advanced</a>
<a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-lawmakers-call-genocide-palestinians-gets-thousands-facebook-likes">genocidal</a>
<a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/eu-refuses-condemn-israeli-genocide-plan">plans</a>
for the expulsion of the Palestinians and their <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/concentrate-and-exterminate-israel-parliament-deputy-speakers-gaza-genocide-plan">destruction
as a national collective</a>.</p>
<h2>“Natural home”</h2>
<p>Hopkins is a notorious far-right racist who has <a
href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-sadiq-khan-tweet-london-mayor-stabbings-a8960476.html">caught
the favorable</a> attention of US President Donald
Trump for her Islamophobic vitriol.</p>
<p>She has a <a
href="https://tellmamauk.org/tag/katie-hopkins/">well-documented
record</a> of using her high-profile media
appearances to spread conspiracy theories and incite
racial, ethnic and religious hatred.</p>
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<p>Here's arch-racist Katie Hopkins blaming
"Soros NGOs" for critical coverage of Israel.</p>
<p>I wrote in March about how this antisemitic
conspiracy theory is perpetuated by Zionist
fanatics and the rest of the fascist right <a
href="https://t.co/9Rsq2Jst2h">https://t.co/9Rsq2Jst2h</a>
<a href="https://t.co/ELKHugldeN">pic.twitter.com/ELKHugldeN</a></p>
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— Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) <a
href="https://twitter.com/AsaWinstanley/status/1140631795173658625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June
17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>Hopkins also used her i24 News appearance to <a
href="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">claim</a>
that Muslims are “forcing the Jews out of western
Europe,” as well as her “own population.”</p>
<p>And in perhaps one of her only credible statements –
politically speaking at least – she called Israel her
“natural home.”</p>
<p>Hopkins embodies the <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-lobbyists-shield-white-supremacists-after-synagogue-attack">increasingly</a>
warm <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/why-has-israeli-nazi-hunter-embraced-germanys-neo-nazis">embrace</a>
between <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-embarrassed-its-holocaust-denying-allies-poland">Israel</a>,
on the one hand, and <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/german-neo-nazi-lawmaker-charged-hate-speech-big-israel-fan">far-right</a>
Islamophobes, <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/zionist-white-supremacist-alliance-trumps-white-house">white
supremacists</a>, <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/netanyahu-advisers-hatched-anti-semitic-conspiracy-against-george-soros">anti-Semites</a>
and <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/neo-nazi-richard-spencer-says-he-turns-israel-guidance">neo-Nazis</a>
in Europe and North America, on the other.</p>
<p>She has previously <a
href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/katie-hopkins-when-is-enough-enough-10186490.html">referred</a>
to migrants in Europe as “cockroaches.”</p>
<p>Hopkins was perhaps <a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/24/obituaries/rafael-eitan-75-exgeneral-and-chief-of-staff-in-israel-dies.html">channeling</a>
Rafael Eitan, the army chief who commanded Israel’s
1982 invasion of Lebanon and once notoriously called
Palestinians “drugged cockroaches in a bottle.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">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. <a
href="https://t.co/lqqwLviEd2">https://t.co/lqqwLviEd2</a></p>
— Khaled Elgindy (@elgindy_) <a
href="https://twitter.com/elgindy_/status/1140602651463356416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June
17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Some matters are beyond debate, and to provide their
adherents with a platform in any format serves only to
legitimize extremist viewpoints.</p>
<p>Yet i24 News is attempting to whitewash and downplay
Hopkins’ comments as merely “controversial” – that is
to say within the scope of acceptable debate.</p>
<h2>EU embraces racist municipalities</h2>
<p>The intense and arguably genocidal <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/racism">racism</a>
Hopkins expresses is <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-everyday-israelis-express-support-genocide">all
too common</a> and <a
href="https://mondoweiss.net/2014/03/abunimahs-justice-palestine/">normalized</a>
in Israel, an ethno-state where Palestinians are
conceived first and foremost as a “<a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/demographic-threat">demographic
threat</a>” to the <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/gaza-massacre-price-jewish-state">violently
gerrymandered</a> Jewish majority.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">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<br>
HT <a
href="https://twitter.com/NoaShpigel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NoaShpigel</a><a
href="https://t.co/IgZJ2MZZWW">https://t.co/IgZJ2MZZWW</a></p>
— Asaf Ronel (@AsafRonel) <a
href="https://twitter.com/AsafRonel/status/1140306157275373569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June
16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>A fresh example of that came last Saturday when the
mayor and city council members in the northern city of
<a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/afula">Afula</a>
took part <a
href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/afula-mayor-attends-demonstration-against-sale-of-home-to-arab-family/">in
a demonstration</a> against the sale of a home to an
Arab family.</p>
<p>Council member Itai Cohen told media the municipality
would continue to “ensure that Afula preserves its
Jewish character.”</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>The demonstration was joined by members of <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/lehava">Lehava</a>,
a Jewish extremist group that <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-steps-its-war-mixed-marriages/25051">agitates
against mixed marriages</a> and whose members
habitually <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-israeli-mobs-celebrate-jerusalem-day-anti-palestinian-rampage-old-city">participate</a>
in <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/video-let-palestine-be-wiped-out-sings-jerusalem-day-mob/20651">violent
rampages</a> calling for Palestinians to be “wiped
out.”</p>
<p>With the blessing of <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-turns-blind-eye-racist-state-employed-rabbis/9134">state-financed
official rabbis</a> and <a
href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/03/30/israel-new-laws-marginalize-palestinian-arab-citizens">legislation</a>,
Israeli municipalities regularly <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israeli-town-halts-property-sales-after-realizing-most-buyers-were-palestinians">act</a>
to <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israels-war-its-palestinian-citizens">prevent
integration</a> and equal housing opportunities for
<a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/new-pappe-book-highlights-plight-forgotten-palestinians/10668">Palestinian
citizens in Israel</a>.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Good meeting this morning
with Haim Bibas chairman of the Federation of
Local Authorities in Israel to deepen
cooperation between the 🇪🇺and 🇮🇱
municipalities. <a
href="https://t.co/NSl97wHXsm">pic.twitter.com/NSl97wHXsm</a></p>
— Emanuele Giaufret (@EGiaufretEU) <a
href="https://twitter.com/EGiaufretEU/status/1131182548019798016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>This systematic racism has done nothing to deter the
self-declared human rights champions at the European
Union from embracing Israeli municipalities.</p>
<p>Last month, <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/emanuele-giaufret">Emanuele
Giaufret</a>, the EU ambassador in Tel Aviv, <a
href="https://twitter.com/EGiaufretEU/status/1131182548019798016">met</a>
the chair of the Federation of Local Authorities in
Israel to “deepen cooperation between the EU and
Israeli municipalities.”</p>
<p>There is no indication that the EU is requiring
Israeli municipalities to end their racism against
Palestinians and <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/africans-israel">people
from African states</a> as a condition for such
cooperation.</p>
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