this week right wing vandals from the west bank went to the site of bury a scene and spray painted death to arabs on the graves of the fat victims of this massacre attempting to kill them twice and that's the spirit of the nakba law under this law the observance of the nakba is criminalised the mere observance because on may fifteenth when israelis go out to celebrate their independence palestinians often come out and wave palestinian flags and observe the foundation of the state of israel as a jewish state as a tragedy as even a catastrophe just this frederick douglas did july fourth frederick douglass said i can never see july fourth in the foundation of the united states is anything but a crime until slavery is permanently banned and so the naacp below rises from israel's peculiar institution of apartheid introduced by alex miller a twenty eight year old resident or a twenty eight year old immigrant from moscow someone likes of elkan who doesn't seem to be particularly interested in the indigenous people and connect in any real connection to the land who arrive not possibly not even knowing the palestinians were there but who recognized and told me in an interview with who recognized the great political potential for mobilizing resentment against palestinians because the nakba even though there are these millions of refugees were excluded and were busy not the minister of sports and culture declared the teaching of the nakba promotes disloyalty and so miller introduced this bill and it passed once again in diluted form allowing financial penalties on anyone who is a can connected to an ngo for participating in naacp observances the ngo the human rights group can be financially panelized another chilling of speech in israel now why was this law introduced why what's so troubling about palestinians waving flags what's so troubling about palestinian nationalism why did heifer university two months ago ban the waving of the palestinian flag on its campus why are palestinian flags often illegal to wave jerusalem in parts of jerusalem why during operation cast lead were people arrested by the scores for waving palestinian flags and israeli streets why do palestinian symbols and bearing palestinian symbols make you unsafe in israel it's because the right wing which is dominant and incipient in israel understand something that many of us understand which is that the nakba continues that has to be reversed the right wing understands it as a project that needs to be finished because if and until it's finished and either the glick plan or the j street plan is fully realized and consolidated israel will be in permanent conflict and once it's finished then they can start naming their mascots after arabs and their military hardware after arabs just as we name ours after indians then arabs will be a source of fun and games but and as long as they keep resisting with their mis cheviots b d s and their popular protests and their dangerous stone throwing israel remains in crisis as avigdor lieberman said referring to the earliest days of zionist settlement nothing has changed since the days of the tower in the stockade and so it's because of this hatred of the presence of what is known as a demographic threat and the fact that it won't go away the fact that israel has no end game of its own that it can only simply manage the conflict as lieberman recently said at the suburban center in washington as israel's defense minister moshe ya'alon said we have to do away with pie in the sky solutions it's because of that that they are resorting to ethnic cleansing and anti democratic laws to finish forty eight we see the the montra finish forty eight in the graffiti left at the site of various scene we see it in the fire bombed fish restaurant across the street from me where i stayed in java five minutes south of tel aviv and in the vandalized muslim headstones in java directly adjacent to the parade center for peace five minutes south of tel aviv we hear the mantra finish forty eight in the words of deputy transportation minister scipio to valley the palin of israel who speaks better english than sarah palin thirty four years old and telegenic a rising star who told me who promised to her on national t v that she would ban her and all a literal war on christmas which bill o'reilly has never discussed a literal war on christmas banning christmas trees and the display of any non jewish symbol gop so who is from lieberman's party has declared that he will not allow the display he will fight the display of any jewish symbol in his city and he has invoked the words of ben gurion in the founding fathers of israel and said they also sought an ethnically pure state so if you're going to call me a racist call everyone a racist here we hear that increasingly from the right wing we heard that from ruben rivlin who was in the last knesset the speaker of the knesset whose family were the ones who ethnically cleanse joffe and forty eight your hands aren't clean we're not moving anyone out of their homes we're just building new homes and so rivlin is simply saying how dare you stop us from finishing the job that you started and he's right it was a job started by the zionist left that will be finished by the zionist right unless someone gets in their way we hear the call to finish forty eight enough tell it enough telly ben plan to annex the west bank and do away with the idea of palestine once and for all we hear the call to finish forty eight in the tracts issued by state funded israeli rabbis key religious authorities signing letters by the hundreds a letter declaring that it is illegal falsely declaring that it is illegal under jewish law to rent apartments to non jews and a dual letter issued by their wives declaring that it is illegal under jewish law for jewish for jews to have relationships with non jews specifically jewish women and arabs we hear for finnish forty eight in the decision by the national civil service administration of israel inspired by this letter and inspired by the anti miscegenation movement which it gave rise to banning or religious jewish women from volunteer in israeli hospitals after nine pm for fear that they will date arab doctors a peculiar decision if you're an american jew and you have been raised to believe that your parents dream of you marrying a doctor the call to finish forty eight rings out from the anti miscegenation movement in israel from the group which has been called to testify about the dangers of assimilation in the israeli  by their hotline that they operate allowing callers to inform on interreligious an interest in it couples by the civil patrols they operate on israel's beaches warning jewish women of the dangerous wiles of arab men by the posters appeal appearing around jerusalem featuring the faces of arab men deemed to have made passes at jewish women and by the leaflets handed out around jerusalem warning palestinian of the dangers they face if they dare approach jewish women we heard finish forty eight in the chants of the jewish youth who chanted a jew is a soul an arab is a son of a while dozens and dozens of bystanders stood by and watched without doing anything these were teenagers who had been told by a fifteen year old female friend of hers that you loni had made a pass at her and so they treated him as other ethnic nationalists in another era and another place treated and at the court room the key perpetrator declared that his only regret was that giuliani wasn't dead they're all united in a single cause to finish forty eight to produce an ethnically pure state free of demographic contaminants the children chanted at the high schoolers chanted from the hills of a bedouin village which was demolished by jewish by jewish national fund and blaze and bulldozers in two thousand and ten those high school volunteers have been brought from the town of carry out got to carry out the belongings and the furniture  bedouins who lived in this village since before the state of israel was founded and they've that they vandalized the homes then watch the bulldozers move in to wipe the village from the frame of the for the off the face of the map chanting the people of israel live this village was destroyed as part of the proverb plan a plan introduced in the knesset to expel forty to seventy thousand indigenous bedouins who are citizens of the state of israel but don't have the benefit of jewishness they are being according in the words of the israeli government judy ised replaced by small jewish communities that will discriminate openly and under it on the basis of the acceptance to communities law  destroyed sixty five times since that first demolition and if you want to watch it being demolished watch my video i witnessed its third demolition i witnessed activists from anarchists against the wall tossed away by riot squads like empty crates i watched bulldozers trundle around the village crushing structures and i watched young girls sitting on their beds in the open desert crying because their homes were destroyed to finish forty eight is the plan and after nine hundred forty eight a law was introduced these laws that i described to you are not the first anti democratic and racist laws introduced they are simply building on a preexisting skeleton among the first laws was the prevention of infiltration act passed one thousand nine hundred fifty three palestinians were uprooted from their homes by the hundreds of thousands but there were no walls at the time there weren't really there were some barbed wire fences but they could still walk back in and so they tried to reunite with their families and they tried to farm the land that had fallen fallow and the israeli government through the knesset through a democratic vote by the voice of the jewish israeli public in the knesset declared that their presence was illegal that they were infiltrators and that they could be then removed by the border police this law has been amended to apply to a new demographic threat a new threat to the ethnic purity of the state of israel the sixty thousand african asylum seekers who have fled jonjo week in sudan fled from dar for and received no aid or comfort and no support from the free dar for movement founded by pro israel forces in this country to whitewash their support for apartheid and they fled from eritrea from harsher oppression in eritrea and they have been the victims they have been in israel deprived of work permits declared a threat concentrated in south tel aviv and they come the victims of race riots thousand local residents in south tel aviv and declared that the africans are a cancer in israel's body according to an israeli democracy institute poll fifty two percent of jewish israelis agreed with that opinion and a plurality agreed with violence against africans which was just what was about to happen raghav later issued an apology by the way to cancer survivors meanwhile hundreds of thugs and vandals rioted through african areas smashing their windows attacking any african they could find chasing africans to the street stopped from bloodshed by the last minute presence of riot police i titled my chapter about that episode which was almost unreported in the us mainstream media the night of broken glass and i have encountered harsh harsh and tag an ism in anger for that title and i stand by that title because i stand by the universal lessons of the holocaust which declare never again to anyone at least shy who was then the head of the ultra nationalists shah's party declared that he would make the lives of africans miserable he promised to make their lives miserable and he said that these are often muslims who don't recognize that this country belongs to the white man those are it that was his language those are his exact words he said that despite the fact that his family comes from tunisia but racial the the way race is constructed in israel is completely different than it is here because as a member of the the jewish majority to the extent that it is a majority anymore he saw himself as the white man and so benjamin netanyahu set about to do what you share recommended the law was amended the one nine hundred fifty three law applying to palestinians allowing for any and non jewish african to be arrested on sight and indefinitely detained without charges for the crime of not being jewish they were unable to gain any asylum status in israel i think there was one year two thousand and thirteen when the only african who got asylum status happened to be albino and this is despite israel's signature of the one nine hundred fifty one convention on the un convention on refugee rights and so they have been rounded up the round ups are beginning they get letters in the mail after there was a recently a strike of anti africans recognizing the reality that they of non jewish africans recognizing the reality that they faced and so they came out in the streets by the thousands declaring were people to wear our refugee rights just give us protection because if we go back to sudan we go back to eritrea will be jailed and many of us will be killed behind closed doors israel's been sending them back to the you didn't to the sudan israel recently cut a deal with paul rwanda to send thousands of non jewish africans to rwanda in exchange for what most likely cut rate deals on weapons it cut the same deal with uganda and so they recognize the reality they were in who is one of the leaders of these protests who is a refugee rights advocate who is one of the first non jews in history to run for tel of eve sinned he counsel who speaks far better hebrew than a foxman around dershowitz recently got a letter in the mail and it said you are to report to the holo open accommodation centers soon as possible that means that he has to report to an internment camp in the desert for africans which is very similar to the internment camp that was built in this country for japanese americans during world war two who are deemed to possess and in the race blood currently there are five hundred africans in holo they are allowed to leave technically it is an open accommodation center but they must report for roll call three times a day and if they leave they're in the middle of the desert so there's nowhere to go the only thing brule is they must be back by sundown they have to be there to sleep inside the center at night because they must be segregated from the israeli public for fear that they will assimilate simulation is the danger their reproduction is the danger the few they may have relationships with israelis a few friends in israel who have been gotten into relationships with african refugees fall in love but can't get married and can't really feel secure in their relationship because their lover may be rounded up and interned and deported and killed and so this reminds me this policy of a book by james lowen who is an american historian who wrote a book about the sundown towns that dotted the landscape of the united states which passed ordinances during the one nine hundred twenty s and thirty's it legalising the presence of african americans after dark with this this is anachronistic it's unusual it's something that is in as americans we would reject because we believe in equality before the law it's why we're campaigning in new york against stop and frisk it's and have campaigned against s b ten seventy it's why there are still activism against these races policies then there is our non self air who is an israeli government adviser whose last name means counter in hebrew and so it's colleagues call him are now on the arab counter because he is advised successive governments on how to manage the demographic threats israel face he's the premier demographer he is the man who convinced ariel sharon to build the separation wall in the west bank which benjamin netanyahu has defended because it can prevent demographic spillover he is the man who convinced sure sure on to conduct the gaza withdrawal for demographic reasons to help supplement the jewish majority and then to place the gaza strip under siege and he has issued recommendations on controlling the growth of the african population and what he recommended in an official government document which my colleague the israeli journalist david cian retrieved is recall those of you know hebrew or know this word means concentration and it is the very language is featured on the website and hebrew of the holocaust memorial foundation referring to the conditions that jews lived in and world war two europe now of course no one's calling these camps extermination camps israel has no plans to exterminate africans to do anything like that these camps are similar to the camps the native americans were interned in in the united states filipinos under us occupation or war zulus under boer domination in africa and japanese americans but they suggest zionism is going to a very very dark and disturbing place that it has reached a terminal phase where someone in my book who i wanted to introduce to americans who has given me a lot of insight and inspiration he's no longer alive and he identified throughout his life as a zionist his name is you who labor of it he possessed three ph d s taught biochemistry at hebrew university was said territories when it conquered the west bank east jerusalem the gaza strip golan heights cyanide and israelis erupted in ecstatic celebrations stood against the tide of messianism he stood against the generals he stood against the army he stood against the leadership and he declared that the occupation would transform israel into a secret police state in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight he warned that the jews would be the administrators and the secret police the colonial dominators they would administer a system that would resemble rhodesia under a jewish authority those are his words and he said that they would be forced to rely on arab quislings to control the arab population foreshadowing the rise of the palestinian authority two years later he issued his darkest prophecy and what he wrote was pure prophecy that and israel if it rained tain this system this peculiar institution resembling the kind that rhodesia and south africa had embraced would begin to enact concentration camps in israel would no longer be worth defending and would no longer deserve to exist those were his words lieberman's prophecies came true before the eyes of israelis young israelis in the one nine hundred eighty s lined up outside his office banging on his door to see ching him for his and his advice what should we do i'm seventeen and next year they're going to send me to the occupied territories to dominate and control people i don't want to do it they're going to send me to beirut to a bloodbath that's our vietnam they're going to send me to south lebanon to occupy more people what do we do and he told them to organize mass insubordination mass insubordination and mass refusal refuse to serve in the army and shake this state to its core this state whose only meaning is the domination of another people those are his words ninety ninety one leave the his service to israeli society was nominated with the israel prize the highest honor in israel but he began sharpening his criticisms telling young israelis don't follow orders if you just follow orders you're no different than eichmann and you will be a judeo nazi he said we are witnessing a judeo nazi mentality in this country of people who don't question orders to to commit crimes against humanity he even called the man who presided over eichmanns prosecution meyer lando a judeo nazi because lando as a supreme court justice issued the opinion authorizing the shin bet to torture palestinian prisoners don't want to cause any more problems he rescinded the award a year later he was dead and he has since been largely forgotten we know nothing about him or but his words echo in this room the words of so many jews and israelis and palestinians and people around the world who have been who have resisted zionism and who have paid the price have made the sacrifice and so it's a call for us to continue the work we're doing or reconsider our embrace of zionism and to begin to organize mass in nation or pay the price of watching the project to finish forty eight completed thank you