Whenever you hear Israelis and Zionists tell you that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East” and that this “conflict” is “too complex” for you to understand, remember this.
This is an excerpt from Amnesty International's 2022 Israel Palestine Apartheid Explainer. For a more detailed understanding of Israel's colonial apartheid system, read Amnesty's 2022 report.
Pay attention to the fact that this report is from 2022, more than a year before the beginning of the present genocide in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
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It’s wild how people still parrot “the only democracy in the Middle East” while ignoring that Israel literally runs on a tiered ID system that decides your rights based on ethnicity and where you were born.
That’s not democracy that’s apartheid.
And the whole “too complex for you to understand” line is just gaslighting. Amnesty, Human Rights Watch even Israeli NGOs like B’Tselem have been crystal clear for years
it’s a system of domination, not some unsolvable mystery
The current genocide didn’t appear out of nowhere it’s the logical extension of a system that was already set up to dehumanize and contr