Surfer magazine post triggers wild anti-semitic blowback including from sport’s own Candace Owens

Well put, John.

and every where in the World right now racism is back and getting more pronounced…trumps classless racist AI generated of the Obama’s as monkeys,FFS really?
….the so called human rights bureaucracy’s cannot be trusted , as they have a shot term tunnel view…….relative to the 5000 + years of history in the ME…….so yeah West Bank could be gone soon…..and absorbed into Israel….Taiwan will go back to China….

ha look at Perth and Invasion day……bomb thrown to kill and maim blackfellas….men women and children……we now live in an ever-increasing world where racism is becoming the norm again!

depends on what you call , worthwhile?

Human rights,hmmmm…….and who polices that again?

hmm human rights ,colonialism with a dash of slavery sure helped the colonial powers to become excessively rich and control peoples lives…….worked for them and set up empires!
Was it worthwhile , fuck yeah for the elite…….just like now they want us the people to play the game of human rights…..while,”they” use a different set of loose rules!

At first glance it does seem that all citizens in Israel enjoy the same rights, they can all vote, for example, among many other rights granted by citizenship. However, after a more thorough look it becomes clear that this talking point is only held together by the omission of one very important fact:
Israel distinguishes between citizenship and nationality.
What does this mean?
For example, you can be a citizen of Israel but be a Druze national, or a Jewish national. Your nationality is determined by your ethnicity and it cannot be changed or challenged. But how is this relevant to the original question being discussed?
It is relevant because many of the rights you are accorded in Israel stem from your nationality not your citizenship. Meaning an “Arab” Israeli citizen and a Jewish Israeli citizen, while both citizens, enjoy different rights and privileges determined by their “nationality”. Seeing how Israel is an ethnocracy it is not a mystery who this system privileges and who it discriminates against [You can read more about this here].
This is not merely discrimination in practice, but discrimination by law. Adalah have composed a database of discriminatory laws in Israel that disfavor non-Jewish Israelis. For example, the Law of Return and Absentees’ Property Law are but two examples of flagrant racism and discrimination in the Israeli legal system [You can read more about this here].
This is not some old, odd oversight, but a very deliberate part of the design of Israeli society. This is periodically reinforced whenever some Israelis petition the Supreme Court to recognize an Israeli nationality that does not discriminate based on ethnicity. A recent example of these petitions was in 2013, where the Supreme Court rejected such an idea on the grounds that it would “undermine Israel’s Jewishness“.
It says quite a lot about Israel that a unifying egalitarian identity not based around ethnicity would “pose a danger to Israel’s founding principle: to be a Jewish state for the Jewish people“, as the court ruled. The fact that such discrimination is seen as a cornerstone of Israeli society only reinforces its colonial ethnocratic nature, and undermines any claims to equality among citizens.

100% – you have to compare how Israel treats non-Jews to how the surrounding places treat Jews.

(there is no comparison)

Sold – undeveloped property on Mimosastraat, was getting bled dry by the Kouga Municipality with rates and fees increasing every quarter.

Went from USD $400 per year when we bought to over USD $3000 per year when we sold –

he does not have a clue.

Yep sadly, racists persist here that’s for sure. Particularly amongst middle aged and older white people (just like the US!). And the comparison between JBay and the Kei is accurate. But that’s largely because the Kei is predominantly Xhosa and the surf community in Bay is predominantly white Afrikaans and English speaking people. The parallel to Isreal is obvious. Isreal and the South African regime are both responsible for the brutal suppression of indigenous people and are guilty of what the UN has defined as ‘apartheid’ crimes against these people. And just like the white South African government did during apartheid (with Israel military support!), Israel exerts control over Gaza and the West Bank, which are populated by Palestinian people (excluding of course the illegal Israeli settlements that have been established in the West Bank). Our history with the Palestinian people goes all the way back to the Mandela era and Mandela himself is famous for his 1997 speech on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, in which he said ‘Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinian people’. In the same speech he connected our struggle against apartheid with their struggle and framed them both as struggles against racial discrimination. So me, Ricky and the majority of South Africans are rightfully highly critical of the Israeli government.

Yes of course Jewish people were also living in the Palestine region but the creation of the state of Israel and the mass immigration of Jews into the region only occurred from 1948, at which point the vast majority of people living there where Palestinians, who were then disposed of their land and had their lives controlled by the ‘colonial’ Israelis, much like the Aboriginals in Australia, the Native Americans in North America and the Africans in South Africa etc etc. Ultimately though, regardless of the fact that Jews once lived in Palestine 5000 years ago while no Europeans lived in Africa back then, history has shown that the Israelis and the Apartheid government of South Africa, are both responsible for the brutal and racist oppression of Arab and African people using similar approaches that have both been defined as ‘apartheid’ by the UN. But don’t argue with me or Ricky, take it up with Mandela (even if he can’t argue back anymore;).