Monday, November 21, 2011

A Dubious Definition of “Righteous Jews” By Discover The Networks

Founded by a former professor who portrays Israel as “a racist, apartheid state,” the website RighteousJews.org praises Jews who believe that Palestinians are being “humiliated, tortured, and murdered in the name of political Zionism.”

A project of Deir Yassin Remembered, RighteousJews.org (RJO) was founded in 2003 to honor Jews "who have worked for the human rights of non-Jewish Palestinians." By RJO's telling, the Palestinian people “have been, and continue to be, depopulated, dispossessed, humiliated, tortured, and murdered in the name of political Zionism and its quest to create a Jewish state in the lands between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River.” “The root cause of bloodshed and conflict” in the Middle East, RJO elaborates, has been the “racist endeavors” of Zionists “to 'pump in' Jews and 'pump out' Palestinians from this land.”
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