Ms Bondhttps://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/07/greta-thunbergs-moral-siege-of-israel/Try looking at things from another perspective.Also regarding your claims of Israeli apartheid -'The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics defines the population of Israel as including Jews living in all of the West Bank and Palestinians in East Jerusalem but excluding Palestinians anywhere in the rest of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and foreign workers anywhere in Israel. As of December 2023, this calculation stands at approximately 9,842,000 of whom:73.2% (about 7,208,000 people) are Jews, including about 503,000 living outside the self-defined borders of the State of Israel in the West Bank21.1% (around 2,080,000 people) are Israeli citizens classified as Arab, some identifying as Palestinian, and including Druze, Circassians, all other Muslims, Christian Arabs, Armenians (which Israel considers "Arab")[2]An additional 5.7% (roughly 554,000 people) are classified as "others". This diverse group comprises those with Jewish ancestry but not recognized as Jewish by religious law, non-Jewish family members of Jewish immigrants, Christians other than Arabs and Armenians, and residents without a distinct ethnic or religious categorization'.This multi-ethnic electorate has meant that members of Arab and other non-Jewish political parties have representatives in the Israeli Knesset.How many Jewish MPs in what passes for democracy in Arab Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Saudi, UAR etc ?And Jews not only fled the WWII holocaust but also aggression against them by Arabs in the neighbouring countries they lived in."The expulsion of Jews from Arab countries and Iran – an untold history"This op-ed was written by WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps member Andrea Mifano, was orginally published on the Brazilian Jewish news website Kadima in Portuguese on 3 December 2020.'Until the 1960s, approximately one million Jews lived in Iran and other Arab countries having arrived in the region more than 2,000 years before. Nowadays, it is estimated that only around 15,000 remain, as the majority of the Jewish population in Muslim lands were forced to flee their homes in the years following the establishment of the State of Israel. This mass expulsion and exodus is part of modern history, but inexplicably, it’s neither taught at schools nor remembered within the context of the conflicts in the Middle East. (Not inexplicable really. It's antisemitism.)For over 2,500 years, Jews lived continuously in North Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf region the first Jewish population had already settled there at least 1,000 years before the advent of Islam. (NB !)Throughout the generations, Jews in the region were often subjected to various forms of discrimination -- and in many cases, ranked lower on the status of society than their Muslim compatriots -- but they were nevertheless loyal citizens who contributed significantly to the culture and development of their respective countries. (Which shows itself today in that Israel is light years ahead of surrounding Arab states when it comes to innovation and creativity in finance, business research and enterprise especially bio-medical and IT, popular culture (they might even win the Eurovision song contest if other countries do not no-platform them). Despite the positive influence that Jews brought to the places where they lived, more than 850,000 Jews were forced to leave their homes in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Morocco, and several other Arab countries in the 20 years that followed the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Another major forced migration took place from Iran in 1979–80, following the Iranian Revolution and the collapse of the shah’s regime, adding 70,000 more Jewish refugees to this number'.And even today when Israel defends itself from continual attacks by Islamofacist Palestinians in Hamas, people like you never seem to show it any empathy or support but keep banging on about how cruel they are to its enemies.Sad really.Student Union perception and denial of what is really happening in the region.
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