Browsing Topic Best Apartheid Quotes

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

We have to be able to say that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is apartheid. Period.

I’ve killed lots of Arabs in my life – and there’s no problem with that.

The fundamental unavoidable reality at the heart of the [Israel-Palestine] conflict is that there is an asymmetry of power here. One side is the occupier. The other side is occupied.

Palestinians are at best third-class citizens in the nation of their birth. The idea that it’s even remotely controversial to call what Israel has imposed on Palestinians a form of apartheid is laughable.

By only stepping in to name Hamas’ actions, which are condemnable, and refusing to acknowledge the rights of Palestinians, Biden reinforces the false idea that Palestinians instigated this cycle of violence. This is not neutral language. It takes a side, the side of occupation.

Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

I will do everything in my power to prevent a Palestinian state.

In our bones, Jews know that when you tell a people to forget its past you are not proposing peace. You are proposing extinction.

Palestinians will only have peace with the Israelis when they love their children more than they hate us.

Israel has managed to maintain its oppressive system using not just the guns of soldiers, but also by keeping this nuclear gun pointed at the heads of millions.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

People who condemn Palestinian retaliation against their oppressors have no real answers for what Palestinians should do instead, besides nothing and die.

I will not support an effort to enable war crimes and human rights abuses and violence. We cannot be talking only about Israelis’ need for safety at a time when Palestinians are living under a violent apartheid system and are dying from what Human Rights Watch has said are war crimes.

Bombing children and targeting houses of worship is wrong. I pray that I never pledge allegiance to any ideology or methodology that would stop me from believing that.

Apartheid states aren’t democracies.

Weapons are being used to kill Palestinians with American weapons. And American funds are essentially being used to do this… Hamas was encouraged and really started by Israel.

The fact that the United States of America is providing Israel many of the weapons Israel is using today to kill Palestinian civilians without demanding a cease-fire, Tlaib is right. That makes us complicit in an ongoing crime against humanity.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

There won’t be a Palestinian state within Israel.

In our bones, Jews know that when you tell a people to forget its past you are not proposing peace. You are proposing extinction.

Critics on the left even have a term for it: ‘PEP.’ Progressive except Palestine. Progressive when it comes to standing up for marginalized minorities at home, or persecuted groups abroad..but not in Israel and the Occupied Territories.

The reason the American debate over Israel-Palestine could shift dramatically and quickly is that many Democratic politicians don’t need to be convinced that what Israel is doing is wrong. They just need to be convinced that they can say so without hurting their careers.

In more than a decade of his right-wing rule in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has cultivated an increasingly intolerant and authoritarian type of racist nationalism.

I regret in 2002 backing down from backing the Palestinians in their conflict with Israel, the Second Intifada. I saw what an awful life they live under constant occupation and oppression.

Israel would not be in 20 years, it would be gone. It certainly will not be a democracy. It will be an apartheid regime and the world will just reject it as they did South Africa. I’m now saying it will be gone.

The propaganda machine that comes out of Israel when it comes to the precious humanity of Palestinians is just sad. But it has so much to do with mass complicity. It has to do with The New York Times and The Washington Post, and CNN and MSNBC, and others, not wanting to be truthful about themselves.

I have no problem with Joe Biden’s emotional connection to the Jewish people. As a Jew, I find it moving and appealing. But the question is, why can’t he also have a deep emotional connection – a human connection – with Palestinians?

We protested when the Israeli Defense Forces killed more than 2,000 Palestinians in 50 days. Yet Obama replied with words about the difficult plight of police officers … and the additional $225m in financial support of the Israeli army. Obama said not a mumbling word about the dead Palestinian children but he did call Baltimore black youth ‘criminals and thugs’.

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit.

I hope my president, our president, speaks up & speaks truth about what exactly is happening because I know they know.

To read the statements from President [Joe] Biden, Secretary [of State Antony] Blinken, General [Lloyd] Austin and leaders of both parties, you would hardly know Palestinians existed at all.

The Palestinians must compromise argument is really just code for the complete erasure of Palestine and Palestinians.

Palestinians have no land to call their own, no autonomy; they have no rights and cannot return to their homes.

So compromise …what?

I am making it impossible to conduct negotiations that might lead to a Palestinian State.