THEhe current situation in the Middle East is not only the result of decades of confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians, it is also fueled by hundreds of years of persecution of Jews in Arab countries and in Europe.
This centuries-old conflict, extraordinarily complex, with historical, religious, geopolitical and diplomatic roots, fueled by corruption, ignorance, but also hatred and radicalism, cannot be reduced to the binary vision of a confrontation. between the “Nice Palestinians” and the “Wicked Israelis”if not by propagandists or ignorant people.
However, it is precisely to this outrageous simplification that several organizations – we are thinking of certain United Nations reports -, press organs, as well as a significant number of intellectuals and artists, political and media figures are engaged. .
A column published on July 6 on the website of the Association of Academics for the Respect of Palestinian International Law (Aurdip), calling for “Elimination” and at the ” repression “ of “Crime of apartheid in historic Palestine”, testifies to a large mobilization “Anti-Zionist” within academia. To qualify Israel’s policy towards the Palestinians, this forum and other appeals use the infamous term“Apartheid” associated with criminalizing expressions like “Ethnic cleansing” Where “War crimes”, even “Crimes against humanity”.
The cruelty, inhumanity, paroxysmal violence and abject racism suggested by these emotionally charged accusations are deliberately used to make a Western population particularly sensitive to human rights violations react and to see Israel as a criminal state. against which any self-respecting humanist would have the duty to revolt.
Experts and activists
The many zealots of this combat victimhood present themselves most of the time as “experts” while they act there as militants. Their crusade is all the more effective as the subject is complicated and fundamentally very poorly understood; at the same time, it is so ubiquitous in the media that anyone with any interest in international news feels compelled to take a stand.
The effectiveness of these pleadings owes much to the noble principles behind which they conceal the violence of their real objectives: the ” human rights “, the “Fight against racial, ethnic and religious discrimination” (or even “Sexual” in the Aurdip stand), the ” democracy “, the “Justice” and even the ” peace “ and the “Reconciliation” …
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