How Much More Shame Can Israel’s Enablers Bear?

The supporters of Israel are topped by the United States as enabler in chief. America’s gifts to Israel are many and include military hardware, intelligence, political support in all forms, pressure on countries to embrace Israel, financial gifts and a compliant media that soft peddles Israeli transgressions. The silencing of criticism of Israel’s policies is even evident in America’s universities. Annual financial gifts to Israel, a country with a higher per capita GDP than France, continue to today while millions of Americans are homeless, lack medical care and go hungry.

American politicians silence debate on Israel under the false premise that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and is a reliable U.S. ally.

Yes, Israel is a democracy for Jews but not for Palestinians whose land Israel has illegally occupied and where ethnic cleansing has been ongoing and will likely go at an even faster pace with the newly enacted laws and the official annexation of the West Bank. Jews can demonstrate and protest but Palestinians are driven from their homes by settlers. Israel is an apartheid state but American politicians, beholden to their Jewish donors, claim it to be a democratic state and finance it with American taxpayer money as America’s national debt balloons.