Israeli regime has roots in racism, pundit says
Press TV has conducted an interview with Paul Larudee, co-founder of the Free Palestine Movement in Berkeley, to discuss clashes between Israeli forces and Ethiopians protesting the Tel Aviv regime’s racist policies.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: your comments please about these recent protests in Tel Aviv and about the issue of racism and violence by Israelis against African immigrants there including the situation and the conditions that the Israeli regime has conjured for these African-immigrants i.e. the open facilities they have devised for these immigrants?
Larudee: ... workers who have come, some of them illegally without visas into Israel, and the Ethiopians who became Israeli citizens, it is racist against both. In this case, it is Israeli citizens, Ethiopians, who have been there for decades and they are the ones who are demonstrating and guess what, they are not being treated any differently from other Africans who are not Israeli citizens. The only difference is that they do not want to send them back to Africa. They just want them to be content with a second or third class citizenship in Israel.
Press TV: And also further talking about the issue of rights violations and institutionalized racism, that is most evident when it comes to the issue of Palestinians in occupied Palestine.
Larudee: Racism is at the foundation of Israel... many of the early Zionist pioneers did not even consider local Jews and Jews in the Arab world to be real Jews, it was only the Europeans, but they reluctantly accepted the Jews and in fact provoked them into coming to Israel, because they needed more Jews to displace the Palestinians... There are many, many racial divisions and racism is a very central part of Zionism and of Israel. If anything is becoming more racist now, it is not at all surprising that you are going to have this both between different divisions of Israeli citizens and between Israelis and non-Israelis including Africans and of course Palestinians. This is the so-called race they want to eliminate altogether.
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