Professor Pearl takes as a premise that the 'state of Israel' in its present discriminatory form has a right to exist, and has most studiously avoided giving any reason for this.
This gives the impression that he is in truth the President of the "Flat Earth Society" to which he refers, when he rejects out of hand the idea of a single state in the Holy Land in which every person entitled to live there would be a citizen with equal rights whatever his or her religious beliefs or lack of any.
The accusation of apartheid arise from the very wording of the so-called Laws of the Aliyah, but it would appear that these are unknown to Professor Pearl. The accusation of being "colonial" comes from the manner in which the indigenous population has been ethnically cleansed from large areas of the Holy Land. Eric Arthur Blair (aka George Orwell) would indeed recognise in Professor Pearl's writings the misuses of language so brilliantly illustrated in his "1984".
I openly and definitely advocate the total dismantling of the 'state of Israel' as it now exists and its replacement by a fully democratic state which recognises the rights of all. This ephemeral 'state' has achieved wonders in advancing torture and oppression, building most carefully on the legacy left to it by Theodor Herzl and Adolf Hitler, who advanced the same racist lies as one another.
After the horrors committed by the Nazis in Europe, many of us said "Never again" and meant it, but the Zionists decided to claim in some twisted way that these vile crimes justified their treating the indigenous Palestinians in the manner in which the Nazis had treated those classified by Hitler's racist régime as "Jews".
Balance requires justice, and this includes the right of return of all Palestinian refugees and their descendants to their homes and lands.
If Professor Pearl wishes to persuade, he should start by explaining why anyone had the right in the twentieth century to invade and occupy the Holy Land, and then make the specific case for the Ashkenazim whose ancestors from the Caucasus converted to Judaism a few centuries ago. I prefer the clear statements made by such honourable Jewish groups as Neturei Karta that Zionism is bad for true Jews as well as being bad for humanity. He well describes the 'state of Israel' as "a temporary outpost of Western imperialism", and I would add that it is an affront to all lovers of justice.
I am amazed to learn that he is the father of the late (very much lamented) Daniel Pearl, who made his name as an excellent and most courageous investigative journalist.
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