[lbo-talk] [Marxism] [Pen-l] Israel moves closer to a single-state solution

Marv Gandall marvgand2 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 09:35:12 PDT 2014


On Sep 1, 2014, at 12:25 PM, Joseph Catron via Marxism <marxism at lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:


> Carrol Cox correctly noted on the PEN-L list that my use of the the phrase
> "institutional racism" is inexact and confusing. Switch it out for
> “explicit racism" if you would.

But is there not in fact a system of institutionalized racism against the Palestinian minority inside Israel, one tacitly accepted by many liberals grouped around the Labour Party and even Meretz? As in North America and Europe, they might also at the same time shrink from making explictly racist statements no longer acceptable in polite company.


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> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Contrary to the fears expressed by their liberal counterparts, these
>>> right-wing Zionists do not believe they will have to choose between
>>> demography and democracy; they’re convinced they can both grant formal
>>> citizenship rights to the West Bank Palestinians while retaining a Jewish
>>> majority in their realized vision of a Greater Israel spanning both banks
>>> of the Jordan River.
>>
>>
>> One small, insignificant quibble: These "liberals" are full advocates of
>> institutional racism, in a way that has few equivalents anywhere near the
>> political mainstreams of North America or Western Europe. As little as I
>> think of our liberals, I'd still use scare quotes or something to set this
>> brood apart from 'em.
>>
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>> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
>> lytlað."
>>
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> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
> lytlað."
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