11-2-2017 Balfour Sparked a National Tragedy for the Palestinian People—With BDS, We Are Fighting Back - Omar Barghouti Newsweek

http://www.newsweek.com/balfour-sparked-national-tragedy-palestinian-people-now-we-are-fighting-back-699470

…What is largely missing in the debate, beyond the entirely justified demands for a British apology and for reparations, is the imperative to act now to end the ongoing Palestinian Nakba by ending the complicity of not just the U.K., but crucially the United States and other Western powers in maintaining a system of injustice that has prevailed for a hundred years. By arming Israel, shielding it from United Nations sanctions, and treating it as a state above international law, they are entrenching the patent inhumanity inherent in Balfour's legacy.  Some may object to characterizing the British-supported Zionist project in Palestine as a case of settler-colonialism, but even influential right-wing Zionist leaders were quite honest about it. In 1923, for instance, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote: "Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonized.... Zionist colonization must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population."…

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

 

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