Apartheid News & Quotes

“The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system.  But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians”

“Without ownership of the land, [Palestine] will never become Jewish … but as the ways of the world go, how does one acquire landed property? By one of the following methods: by force- that is by robbing land of its owner; by forceful acquisition, that is by expropriation via governmental authority; and by purchase with the owner’s consent.”

“Israel isn’t a state of all its citizens… Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people – and it alone.”

Count Bernadotte: denying the Palestinians their right to return is an offence against the principles of elemental justice

“It is, however, undeniable that no settlement can be just and complete if recognition is not accorded to the right of the [Palestinian] Arab refugee to return to the home from which he has been dislodged by the hazards and strategy of the armed conflict between Arabs and Jews in Palestine.”

“[Palestinian children in Gaza] are not children — they are terrorists. We are fooling ourselves. I see the photos.”

“It isn’t Islamophobic to denounce Iran’s nuclear program. It’s not anti-Christian to reproach President Donald Trump for condoning white nationalism. And it’s not anti-Semitic to criticize Israel for possible war crimes.”

“The only way is to transfer the Arabs from here to neighboring countries, all of them except perhaps Bethlehem, Nazareth and Old Jerusalem.”

“I support compulsory transfer. I don’t see anything immoral in it.”

“[Palestinian children in Gaza] are not children — they are terrorists. We are fooling ourselves. I see the photos.”

“I don’t think that there’s anyone in this country, whatever his or her views might be, that can imagine that I would be taking a vaccine from the Israeli citizen, and, with all the goodwill, give it to our neighbors”

“Israel is the only member of the UN that enshrines its racism in law.”

“the ‘state’ of Israel is the national home of the Jewish people, and therefore only the Jewish people can enjoy their national rights”

“Every single member of my family on both sides was exterminated. Both of my parents were in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. And it is precisely and exactly because of the lessons my parents taught me and my two siblings that I will not be silent when Israel commits its crimes against the Palestinians”

“If I don’t steal your home, someone else will steal it”

“For Jewish Jerusalem, I did something in the past twenty-five years. For East Jerusalem? Nothing! What did I do? Nothing. Sidewalks? Nothing. Cultural institutions? Not one. Yes, we installed a sewerage system for them and improved the water supply. Do you know why? Do you think it was for their good, for their welfare? Forget it! There were some cases of cholera there, and the Jews were afraid that they would catch it, so we installed sewerage and a water system against cholera.”

“What’s so horrifying about understanding that the whole Palestinian people are our enemy?”

“What is being done against the Palestinian people seems to me to be a version of the hideous policy of apartheid”

Palestinian citizens of Israel are a “Time bomb, an existential threat like cancer, and fifth column”

“6,231 targets were destroyed… parts of Gaza were sent back to the Stone Age”

“Those who are against us deserve to have their heads chopped off with an axe”

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

“Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality. It has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules of international law.”