Thursday, September 6, 2007

Don't mention the A-word

An Israeli journalist has got into trouble with British Zionists for describing Israel as an apartheid state.

By Richard Silverstein
The Guardian

"Danny Rubinstein, Arab affairs editor of Haaretz newspaper and a member of its editorial board, has landed himself in hot water with the British Zionist community. He had the temerity to say something outside Israel that can be read in his own newspaper and others quite regularly. At a UN conference on Palestinian human rights he called Israel an "apartheid state":

Rubinstein, the Israeli newspaper's Arab affairs editor and a member of its editorial board, [said] "today Israel is an apartheid state with different status for different communities," according to sources at the event, held at the European parliament in Brussels. He went on to say that Palestinians living in Gaza, East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Israel each had 'a different status'," according to a summary of his speech by a United Nations website.


For this, British Jewry unfurled a "not welcome" sign and cancelled its co-sponsorship of a speaking engagement for the New Israel Fund in London on September 3.........."

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