I recently spoke with Louis Rizza on his show Truth Over Comfort to discuss Israel’s systematic violation of the fundamental human rights of the Palestinian people, including its crimes against humanity of ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide.
This conversation follows a discussion Louis and I had in January about Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the US government’s support for it. This time, we focused more on Israeli policies as more broadly applied to the Palestinian people, including its occupation and settlement regime in the West Bank, and why the oft-repeated claim that Arab citizens of Israel have equal rights is simply not true.
Watch the full interview below (available on YouTube, Rumble, and Bitchute):
Summary
Specific topics we discussed include:
- Why my answer to the question of whether Israeli society is racist is “Yes.”
- How UN agencies, international human rights organizations, Israeli human rights organizations, and now also the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have determined that Israel is perpetrating the crime of apartheid.
- Why Zionism was always a racist ideology aimed at subjecting and dispossessing the indigenous Arab population of Palestine, and how Israel exists today as an unashamed Jewish supremacist state.
- How the League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine violated its own charter by aiming to deny the Arab population their right to self-determination.
- Why the popular belief that the UN created Israel is a myth, and how instead the means by which Israel came into existence was the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
- How many orthodox Jews initially opposed the Zionist movement because they viewed it as heretical.
- How before the Zionist movement, Jews and Arabs had friendly relations in Palestine, which was a refuge for Jews relative to the rampant anti-Semitism in Europe.
- How the argument that there never was a state of Palestine before Israel was created is a manifestation of the rejection of Palestinian self-determination inherent to Zionism.
- How one of the reasons European governments supported the Zionist movement was anti-Semitism, and the two other primary reasons why the British government issued its infamous “Balfour Declaration”.
- How two sufficient examples to disprove that the claim that Arab citizens of Israel have equal rights are the Basic Law of 1958 on the Knesset (Israel’s legislature), which basically means that Arabs can only run for the Knesset if they accept as a precondition their status as second-class citizens, and the 2018 Jewish Nation State Law, which explicitly defines self-determination in the territory under Israel’s control as a right exclusive to Jews.
- How the political secular movement of Zionism has always cynically utilized Judaism as a tool to gain support for the project of subjecting Arab Palestinians to Jewish domination, which has had the effect of radicalizing religious Jews in Israel.
- How in addition to perpetrating genocide in Gaza, there has also been an escalation of violence against Palestinians by both Israeli settlers and Israeli security forces in the West Bank.
- Why it is a misconception to view the Israel-Palestine conflict as a religious conflict.
- How Hamas explicitly stated in a 2017 policy document that its grievance against Israelis was not because they are Jews but because of their oppression of the Palestinians.
- How the Israeli government is basically controlled by Jewish extremists.
- Why the ICJ recently ruled not only that a multitude of aspects of Israel’s occupation violate international law but that the persistent occupation itself is illegal.
- Why the oft-repeated claim by the media that East Jerusalem is “disputed” territory is completely false, and why instead it is uncontroversially occupied Palestinian territory.
- The true significance of UN Security Council Resolution 242 as opposed to Israel’s unilateral misinterpretation.
- How the ICJ’s recent ruling that Israel’s occupation is illegal essentially repudiated the entire framework for the US-led so-called “peace process”.
- How to remain in power Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has allied himself with the extremist settler community in furtherance of the Zionists’ goal to establish Eretz Yisrael in all the land of former Palestine.
- How Israel’s oppressive policies in the West Bank systematically discriminate against Palestinians in favor of the extreme Jewish settler community.
Obstacle to Peace
To learn more about how ideological Zionists have systematically violated the fundamental human rights of the Palestinian people since before the state of Israel even existed, be sure to read my book Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Interview Excerpts
The Myth of the UN Creation of Israel
I explain why the popular belief that the UN created Israel is a myth.
Why the Palestine Mandate Was Illegal
I explain how the League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine violated its own charter.
Arab Citizens of Israel Do NOT Have Equal Rights
I explain why the popular Zionist propaganda talking point that Arab citizens of Israel have equal rights simply isn’t true, and why it is logically impossible for Israel to be both a “Jewish state” and a “democracy”.
Why Israel’s Occupation Is Illegal
I explain the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ’s) recent ruling that Israel’s persistent occupation of Palestinian territory violates international law.
Israel’s Unilateral Misinterpretation of UN Resolution 242
I explain the true meaning and intent of UN Security Council Resolution 242 passed in the wake of the June 1967 “Six Day War.”
How the ICJ Repudiated the US-Led ‘Peace Process’
I explain how the International Court of Justice’s recent ruling that Israel’s occupation is illegal effectively repudiated the whole framework for the US-led so-called “peace process.”
Netanyahu’s Use of Hamas as a Strategic Ally
I explain how, before 10/7 attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintained a policy of utilizing Hamas as a strategic ally.
