â€˜Regime of apartheidâ€™ â€“ Author Shlomo Sand on how he stopped being a Jew

Rusty-James
Published on Aug 20, 2020
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Shlomo Sand, professor of history at the University of Tel Aviv and author of the book, How I Stopped Being a Jew, talks to Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi about why he chose to pull away from the Jewish state. He considers himself Israeli, but he lives in what Benjamin Netanyahu calls a â€˜Jewish stateâ€™. He says this means the Jews are a privileged people, and the 25% of the country who are not Jewish are an underclass. He says that people in Europe forgive a â€˜racist attitudeâ€™ and a 47-year occupation of a population â€˜without any civil, political rightsâ€™ because they feel uncomfortable about what happened in the past. He believes there is no future for a state like this in the Middle East, calling it a â€˜suicide societyâ€™ with a â€˜regime of apartheidâ€™ accepted by the world. The vote to recognise Palestinian statehood was a vote against this by Parliament, was purely symbolic and amounted to no real political pressure. And if someone cares about Palestine or Israel, they have to make â€˜any pressure possibleâ€™ on Israel to leave occupied territories, and change their daily attitude towards

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