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Elor Azarya returns home to a hero’s welcome after 9-month prison term for killing Palestinian by Jonathan Ofir

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I had already referred in detail to the representation of Azarya as a “positive personality and his being a normative person,” even though Azarya shares his genocidal values openly with his close family, which supports them too. If Azarya is “normative” by the court, then it deems genocide “normative”.

Continue reading at http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/returns-welcome-palestinian/

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Remembering Hummam, Remembering Islam: Reflections on genocide, one year on by International Solidarity Movement

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When the terms ethnic cleansing and genocide are used by ISM to relay internationals’ interpretation of Israeli policy and the tenets of popular Zionism, it is often met with criticism, abuse, and scepticism, even amongst supporters of Palestine. I’ve found a distance between my interpretations and many would-be supporters, finding it near impossible to capture the ubiquitousness of the occupation and the dynamics of apartheid, shy of having actually being there or in a comparable situation. To use a word so historically associated with the holocaust, in which millions of Jewish people were murdered, is considered inappropriate, disproportionate and insensitive. Yet, the brazen murders of Hummam and Islam stand out to me as an iceberg tip symptom of contemporary Israeli state-sanctioned racism, and the extent to which the lived experience of ethnic cleansing has come to be normalised if not expected of the region.

Continue reading at https://palsolidarity.org/2016/10/remembering-hummam-remembering-islam-reflections-on-genocide-one-year-on/