Yoseph Haddad, an Israeli Arab social activist, accused Congresswomen Rashida Talib and Ilhan Omar of “brainwashing against Israel,” incitement that results in anti-Israel resolutions such as the one recently passed by the prestigious Yale College Council (YCC).
The YCC approved last week a statement authored by Yalies 4 Palestine, a campus pro-Palestinian group, accusing Israel of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid.
The statement also linked Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls against Hamas in May to police violence against Black Americans.
“Just as Israel’s military imposes the apartheid system against Palestinians, the US police enforces the system of white supremacy against Black Americans,” it said.
The YCC, the undergraduate student government, approved the motion in an 8-3 vote with four abstentions.
In response, Haddad said Monday that “when it happens at one of the most prestigious universities in the world, whose graduates include Nobel laureates, public figures and senior American politicians and even US presidents, it is a serious event that shows that the brainwashing against Israel led by Congress Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and others manages to incite against Israel and do significant damage.”
Tlaib, Omar, and their followers have been accused of spreading lies against Israel and anti-Semitism.
Omar had accused Jews of dual-loyalty and alleged that US support for Israel was fueled by “Jewish money.”
Tlaib, the first American Congresswoman of Palestinian Decent, had criticized colleagues opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. She also claimed that it was her ancestors, Palestinians, who had “provided” a homeland for Holocaust survivors.
In January 2020, Israel’s then Consul General in New York Dani Dayan slammed Tlaib for lying and spreading an “unfounded blood libel against Jewish Israelis.”
Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were listed on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s 2019 list of the “Top 10 Worst Anti-Semitic and Anti-Israel Incidents.”
Haddad is the CEO of “Together – Vouch for Each Other,” which was founded in 2018 by a group of young Israeli Arabs – Christians, Muslims, Bedouin and Druze, who felt determined to bring about change in the Israeli-Arab sector and adopt a positive direction vis-à-vis Israeli society and the country.
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Do Arabs who live in the Land of Israel have voting rights and freedom of movement? Do they suffer from systemic violence? The answer is yes and no. The Arabs in the Land of Israel who live under the Palestinian Authority and Hamas do not have voting rights and freedom of movement. The Arabs who live under the Israeli government do have voting rights and freedom of movement. So, yes, apartheid does exist in the Land of Israel – under Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
The Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria both oppress Arabs under their domination by subjecting them to an endless cycle of attacking Israel. Of course, Israel responds in order to ensure their people’s safety. Any country that does not respond to violence against it’s people is immoral. The apartheid that the Arab leadership has created is one where either one of is part of the dominant terror network at the head of the Palestinian Authority or Hamas or one is subjected to a life of depravity. The tens of millions of American and European dollars that flow in every month are used by the corrupt Arab leadership to create terror tunnels and other parts of their terror network, instead of being used to improve economic conditions.
This is why so many Arabs choose to live under the State of Israel and receive state-of-the art medical care – under Jewish and Arab doctors who work hand in hand to care for it’s citizens. Coexistence exists, but not under Arab domination.
written by Phil SchneiderJune 29, 2021
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