Yariv Levin’s deranged response to Haaretz editor calling for action to force Israel to recognise Palestinian statehood
Israel’s justice minister – and deputy PM – Yariv Levin has responded to a call by the editor of Israel’s Haaretz newspaper for sanctions on the country to force it to recognise a Palestinian state and to end its ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank, by ordering his minions to draw up a demand for prison sentences of up to twenty years for Israeli citizens who call for sanctions:
Schocken made the call during an event the paper had organised in London:
Shocken did not even mention Israel’s genocide in Gaza, but the speech provoked a wild reaction from the regime. Levin’s letter, as translated by a well-known online translation service, reads:
Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister
Jerusalem 90 • In Tashir Tashfa October 31, 2024
To him D Gal• in Harav Miara
Legal advice to the government. At issue: legislation against encouraging and supporting the imposition of sanctions on the State of Israel
I would like to contact you regarding the matters in question as follows:
1. Last night it was announced that the publisher of the Haaretz newspaper, Amos Shocken, called on foreign countries to impose sanctions on the State of Israel and Israeli leaders. Is this the first time that Israeli citizens have acted in this way.
2. As we know, for more than a year the State of Israel has been at war on a number of fronts as a murderous terrorist including as a commander of the Hamas organisation. A call to impose sanctions on Israel and its leadership, the members of the security forces and Israeli citizens is a blatant violation of a citizen’s most basic duty of loyalty towards one’s country. It means encouraging and coercing a move whose purpose is to negate Israel’s right of self-defence. This is especially serious when it is done during an existential war, and while we are building and building Held in inhumane conditions by a murderous terrorist organization.
3. In view of all this, I would like you to urgently send me the draft of a legal memorandum, which will state that the actions of Israeli citizens for the sake of killing or encouraging the imposition of international sanctions on Israel, on its leaders, For the members of the security forces and the citizens of Israel, it will be a criminal offense with a prison sentence of ten years I will also request that the burning as mentioned during wartime will be an aggravating circumstance that will allow the doubling of the sentence.
The regime’s reaction to the waking-up of some of its citizens – especially journalists – to its crimes and to the humanity and rights of Palestinians? Bang them up for a similar sentence to what they would get for murder.
Israel claims to be ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’. It is a claim that looks extremely superficial at best.
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Not dissimilar to what Putin did to depress internal descent.
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depress internal descent– suppress internal dissentTut, tut SteveH !!
Democracy and Zionism are incompatible: Each is an antagonist – an adversary – to the other, they cannot co-exist, one destroys the other.
Zionism as expressed by Likud and the Israeli Right Wing is also racist in the same way white-supremacism is.
FWIW Yariv Levin’s criminalisation of Haaretz (and by implication all democratic socialists in Israel), is exactly the same as the effects of Tony Blair’s 2000 Terrorism Act, by which a person who supports even 1 of the objectives of a proscribed organisation can be locked up as a Terrorist.
You may as well talk to mice, qwert.
How’s the cause of Democratic Socialism doing in Putin’s Russia? 🤔
about as well as here SteveH: Putin is as vile a neoliberal as Starmer is and all of Thatcher’s PM children were.
They’re even beating us in Klaus Schwab’s instruction to introduce CBDC.
Seeing as you once again sloppily failed to define your terms, Billy, this may assist….
https://www.britannica.com/topic/democratic-socialism
….if you can be arsed to get what passes for a brain into gear.
Small but important point abt the Britannica def., Dave. Most democratic socialists in the Tony Benn tradition do not want to ABOLISH capitalism, believing that the occurrence of genuine democracy would automatically lessen or reduce capitalism. Britannica’s doing a typical anti-socialist thing here imho.
qwertboi – Unless Billy wants to select a label other than “Democratic Socialism” that’s the label we are currently working to in this conversation.
Besides which, as even Marx recognised – as do contemporary writers such as Michael Hudson – Capitalism was a stage in a process between Feudalism and Socialism – which Feudalism, in the form of what is labelled Finance Capitalism, has reversed since world War One:
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Destiny-Civilization-Finance-Capitalism-Industrial-Socialism/31173938925/bd
Maybe I am to optimistic, but I can see the silver lining.
Already, over 500K Israelis have left Israel for good. This type of measure could very well backfire as the few democratic Zionists that still are living in Israel are going to leave Israel sooner rather than later. Other Zionist that could have been thinking in immigrating to Israel are going to be deterred. Only Zionist that are hard line fascists will right now immigrate to Israel.
Of course, the ultra-Zionist aren’t going to care as in their eyes they are suppressing dissent and it would ensure that they get even more seats at the next General Election,
However, we know that Israel is already at pains to sustain the war efforts in Gaza and Lebanon and that its economy is being severely affected.
Moreover, after what we all are witnessing in Gaza and Lebanon everyone who is stills living in Israel becomes a fascist, should missiles start raining down on Israel and hitting civilians, they become collateral damage as it would be Israel using them as human shields as more and more of the population will be forced to become active combatants and be forced to mingle with women and children.
“I Was Kicked Out Of A ‘Peace Conference’ For Talking About Palestinians”
Dimitri Lascaris in this video asks the delegates to the 10 point Ukrainian peace conference in Canada if Palestinian lives are worth just as much as Ukrainian ones, he receives no answers from the dozens of delegates walking in. He asks why the Palestinians who are losing many more innocent lives than the Ukrainians should not be armed by concerned leaders of the ‘West’, of course we know the answer, racism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Ev3u9I5UQ
Capatalism no longer exists
If WWIII wiped out humanity tomorrow, the FTSE 100 would go up on Monday