Top House Democrats reject Rep. Jayapal's comments calling Israel a 'racist state'

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77. Accusation of Israel's government of being racist is certainly unfounfed by any objective measure.

It is worse than unfounded - it is intentionally deceptive. All sources you cited fail to justify such accusation. International law doesn't justify such accusation. Comparing Israel's government to other governments in the region that completely escape elementary scrutiny, let alone being accused of racism, doesn't support such accusation.

I did not volunteer comparisons of Israel to autocratic governments, I compared an individual in the Israeli government to individuals in other governments to illustrate the fallacy of projecting bigotry of individuals onto entire governments. My position is not depended on such comparisons, it is based entirely on international law. I do not accept advocacy peddlers co-opting the role of the legal authorities. Persistent manipulations of narrative are no substitute for equal treatment under the law, which Israel is certainly not getting from its detractors.

I am suggesting nothing. I am stating the obvious: any allusions to Israel being a racist or an apartheid state fall apart under the scrutiny of international law. Continued use of these misappropriated terms for the sole purpose of denigrating Israel constitutes strategic and deliberate promotion of patently false anti-Israel sentiment. This effort obfuscates, inhibits and detracts from any critical discourse on the subject, which is detrimental to Israel, the Palestinians, and the integrity of the English language.