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July 22, 2014

allahyil3analsohyouniyeh:
“ That’s because the 30 times that you’ve been to Israel you visited as a privileged person and never had to experience the apartheid yourself. It’s because you went to Israel and not one of the most densely populated...

That’s because the 30 times that you’ve been to Israel you visited as a privileged person and never had to experience the apartheid yourself. It’s because you went to Israel and not one of the most densely populated regions in the world, Gaza, which regularly receives the brunt force of Israeli military aggression. It’s because you were never forced to give birth at a checkpoint or die because IDF soldiers wouldn’t let you pass through. You were not cut off from your farm or neighbors. You were not forced to move to an entirely different country because you were an Israeli citizen and your partner was from the west bank or Gaza. You don’t have to wake up at 4 AM in the morning every day just to pass through a checkpoint to get to work. Your home was not demolished for not having the correct Israeli permit to build it, even in the West Bank. You weren’t prevented from driving on Jewish only roads or visiting your holy sites. You aren’t denied treatment in hospitals based on your nationality. You aren’t being continuously ethnically cleansed from your land to make space for Jewish communities.
You have never seen “an apartheid” because you aren’t a Palestinian.

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