Whilst the Hollywood blacklisting of the mid-20th century claimed some innocent victims,it’s undeniable that the problem of communist infiltration into US society, including the motion picture industry, was a legitimate national security threat. So, if the means used to fight this threat were often flawed, it was certainly based on an entirely accurate diagnosis: That the root cause of the Cold War was Soviet Communism.
The recent release of the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC)blacklist of (mostly Israeli) companies that operate in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem and other disputed territories across the 1949 Armistice lines represents a different dynamic: an entirely ahistorical diagnosis of the root cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The political premise of the blacklist, which represents conventional wisdom at international bodies like the UNHRC, in the mainstream media and, at least until recently, within the US government, is that Israeli ‘settlements’ represent the…
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Feb 19, 2020 @ 11:04:47
of course it is the settlements. how would you like a number of cities in New Zealand being Australian cities.
It would be absurd.
Of course it is a way of ensuring Palestine never exists.
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