I give the book four stars for its honesty (certainly not for its turgid writing). And certainly not because I agree with it. I absolutely do not. But the book is valuable and I recommend purchasing it because it definitively demonstrates that the goal of the BDS...
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I give the book four stars for its honesty (certainly not for its turgid writing). And certainly not because I agree with it. I absolutely do not.
But the book is valuable and I recommend purchasing it because it definitively demonstrates that the goal of the BDS (the movement to Boycott, Divest from, and Sanction Israel) is to eliminate the State of Israel, utterly and completely.
No, the author (one of the pioneers of the BDS movement) does not favor driving Israel into the sea. He is not, by any means, advocating genocide.
His goal, honestly stated, is the dismantling of the State of Israel, all its laws and institutions, and replacing it with a Palestinian state in which Jews would have minority rights.
Abunimah makes this point clearly in both chapter 2 and chapter 7 which are the book's key chapters. For him, there is no such thing as an Israeli. There are only "Israeli Jews." This is the precise distinction rightwing Jews make against the creation of a Palestinian state. There are no "Palestinians," just "Palestinian Arabs" who have no national rights. And shouldn't either.
Of course, it is hard to imagine any Jew (let alone Israeli) accepting the offer Abunimah proffers:that after paying reparations to Palestinians for both stealing their land and all the crimes against them, "Israeli Jews" will be permitted to live in Tel Aviv, Nablus or anywhere else in Palestine with full minority rights, like under the Ottomans.
That's it. That is Abunimah' goal and the goal of the BDS movement he represents: the eradication of Israel as a state and Israeli as a nationality. From his point of view, this makes sense: he recognizes no Jewish connection to Palestine at all. For him, Palestine is as unconnected to Jews as Uganda would have been if Zionists had chosen it as the Jewish homeland. But, he concedes, Jews live there so they can stay but, as he spells out, with no national rights.
Fortunately, Abunimah's vision will never happen. Jews will never be stateless again. That is why the only fair resolution of the conflict is two states for two peoples: Israel within the '67 lines and Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza and East Jerusalem.
Only a fool thinks the State of Israel is going to disappear. And only someone who wishes Jews ill would want it to. Abunimah's book, like everything he writes, indicates a deep loathing for any Jew who does not believe, as he does so fervently, that Israel has no right to exist.
I give the book four stars for its honesty (certainly not for its turgid writing). And certainly not because I agree with it. I absolutely do not.
But the book is valuable and I recommend purchasing it because it definitively demonstrates that the goal of the BDS (the movement to Boycott, Divest from, and Sanction Israel) is to eliminate the State of Israel, utterly and completely.
No, the author (one of the pioneers of the BDS movement) does not favor driving Israel into the sea. He is not, by any means, advocating genocide.
His goal, honestly stated, is the dismantling of the State of Israel, all its laws and institutions, and replacing it with a Palestinian state in which Jews would have minority rights.
Abunimah makes this point clearly in both chapter 2 and chapter 7 which are the book's key chapters. For him, there is no such thing as an Israeli. There are only "Israeli Jews." This is the precise distinction rightwing Jews make against the creation of a Palestinian state. There are no "Palestinians," just "Palestinian Arabs" who have no national rights. And shouldn't either.
Of course, it is hard to imagine any Jew (let alone Israeli) accepting the offer Abunimah proffers:that after paying reparations to Palestinians for both stealing their land and all the crimes against them, "Israeli Jews" will be permitted to live in Tel Aviv, Nablus or anywhere else in Palestine with full minority rights, like under the Ottomans.
That's it. That is Abunimah' goal and the goal of the BDS movement he represents: the eradication of Israel as a state and Israeli as a nationality. From his point of view, this makes sense: he recognizes no Jewish connection to Palestine at all. For him, Palestine is as unconnected to Jews as Uganda would have been if Zionists had chosen it as the Jewish homeland. But, he concedes, Jews live there so they can stay but, as he spells out, with no national rights.
Fortunately, Abunimah's vision will never happen. Jews will never be stateless again. That is why the only fair resolution of the conflict is two states for two peoples: Israel within the '67 lines and Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza and East Jerusalem.
Only a fool thinks the State of Israel is going to disappear. And only someone who wishes Jews ill would want it to. Abunimah's book, like everything he writes, indicates a deep loathing for any Jew who does not believe, as he does so fervently, that Israel has no right to exist.
