soda mcdonald just drove me from ballard down to kuala and it was into kuala where group of fun documented migrants were protesting outside the department of homeland security headquarters and they have been held holding protests in tacoma as well outside the immigration and customs enforcement headquarters and they have been protesting president barack obama's racist war on immigrants we're talking about four hundred thousand deportations every year over two million people deported people the people i met outside that center had been there had been jailed in tacoma for five months jorge moreno told me he was jailed simply for being charged with a dui for him and he was held for five months without legal representation indefinitely without even knowing when he would be released he was warehouse and he said he would meet people inside that center who would be deported for the same crime that he got but from a different judge and no one knows why these deportations are happening there arbitrary he is from the most and he said if he told them that he was from the most and was deported they would send him to t juana so that he would be far from his family or to mexico city these are called lateral deportations he would be flown on a plane owned by the private prison contractor  geo owns its own plane and he would be shackled along with almost one hundred other undocumented immigrants on the plane they would be held in shackles i met i met a guy whose husband is currently in the ice detention center he was picked up for a dui even though he wasn't driving and the car wasn't moving he was sitting in the driver's seat waiting for his wife to pick him up he's a construction worker they just built a new home and he volunteered on the weekends to build ramps for disabled people and he has been in there for three months because even after being brought before a judge and being acquitted ice put a hold on immigration hold on him meaning he was indefinitely detained and has been charged with nothing and there are hundreds of people in there like that the conditions are so bad in this privatized prison which you all are paying for that people have begun hunger striking these migrants are hunger striking and they're being placed in solitary confinement for twenty three hours a day they geo security contractors of changed into swat uniforms and are threatening them with force feeding bringing out tubes to threaten them with to reduce the number of hunger strikers now this is absurd and how does that connect to what we're here to talk about what definitely connects and we're here for these people who are here for these victims of obama's racist war on immigration just as we're here for the victims of israeli apartheid and it connects clearly what we're looking at is a kind of shadow of an america that i thought had passed that many of us thought didn't exist when we were told we lived in a post racial society but what we see is that there are still two americas america and america embraced by our one percent were deportations are fine where the people who were invited today to barack obama's civil  said nothing about these deportations because they wanted to be closer to power and to stand for principle and on the other side was the other america were people like those of you with super who outside  obama's hollow civil rights summit protesting the deportations and they were arrested because they had the courage to stand up for principle over power we have the america of the koch brothers and sheldon adelson the largest donor to american politics in history who is also who also happens to be benjamin netanyahu his chief political patron and paul singer who is another major supporter of israel who is also who has just founded a major political action committee that will be pumping money into our twenty fourteen in two thousand and sixteen elections impacting the kind of racist in islam a phobic discussion we hear on foreign policy and on the other side we have students like those who are working with students for justice in palestine in tucson who strap themselves who chained themselves to buses owned by the geo corporation which were taking undocumented migrants out of a federal court room where they were trialed on mass shackled together to a privately to a private prison in arizona controlled by c c a and who have connected the cause of palestine to the cause of undocumented immigrants in america and the cause of indigenous people everywhere we have these two americas in the the the polarization is increasing the differences are more clear than ever before and what we notice is that those who embrace the old america the america of the confederacy the america of voter disenfranchisement who are advancing voter their uniting around a foreign country they are uniting around a country that embodies the kind of country that they would like america to be again it is the state of israel a country with no borders where everyone lives under a regime of separation and rights are apportioned according to ethnicity and the circumstances of their birth and those who want to go back to those days of restrictive covenants the university of washington has a debt database of all the restrictive covenants that kept seattle white up until one thousand nine hundred sixty eight and confined minorities african americans latinos asian americans and even those defined in restrictive covenants as hebr jews to certain areas especially in the center of seattle those who want that america again are uniting around israel and you can just look at who is attempting to crush your efforts on campus look at who funding the attacks on you look at who is funding the attacks on me the brandeis center run by kenneth marcus who has attempted to water down title six protections in the  four civil rights act for minorities on campus and defun middle east studies departments has produced a sixty five page booklet to illustrate my anti semitism unfortunately this pamphlet report whatever you want to call it screed doesn't contradict a single fact in my book if anything it confirms them and it's the ultimate in trolling highlighting what you tweets i favorite is looking for anything to paint me as anti semitic and what it comes down to is that i simply am in favor of palestinian equal rights and oppose what is clearly a system of apartheid now the brandeis center is funded not only by the typical pro israel groups but by the bradley foundation which is a key funder of the right wing and it was the bradley foundation that funded the attack on affirmative action and provide and introduced a resolution in california to end affirmative action whitening the state schools of california it was the bradley foundation that funded the research behind the book the bell curve which claims using junk pseudo science that whites and asians are genetically superior to african americans and latinos based also on research produced by the pioneer fund a eugenics group and so these groups are uniting to crush palestine solidarity on campus the american society for trustees and and associates and alumni is partnering with the bradley foundation to crush middle east studies and to crush ethnic studies on campus and so once they do what they did at northeastern university where the students for justice in palestine chapter has been suspended indefinitely for leafleting simply for leafleting something that students take for granted as something they can do on campus and where two of those students who weren't even in the leadership of s j p are threatened with expulsion once they can replicate that success on campus after campus there will be one last progressive ally when they come for the rest of us when they come for ethnic studies we know where it starts but we don't know where it ends and it's consistent with them with a push around the country that has put mccarthyism at the front of the pro israel playbook but it's not going to work i've seen it failure around this country as people are coming to this cause from unlikely backgrounds from unlikely places to agitate for a cause that is as basic as freedom itself equal rights and like let's make it clear let's not be gaslighted into believing that we're the extremists because if you are pows equality before the law you are an enemy of democracy period and that's who is that's who is behind this suppression push on campus now the main thing that they're attempting to do and they've been doing this for decades is to  restrict the free flow of information around this issue and especially around the reporting journalism and discussion of israel palestine and what it really is now i approached this as a journalist after i finished my first book i immediately went to israel palestine to report for four or five years for five years of research about a year on the ground on what was happening since israel elected in two thousand nine the most right wing government in its history and what i found was place where the green line had basically evaporated and you could see apartheid anywhere you went you didn't have to go to the occupied territories you didn't have to go to the gaza strip which had just been decimated pummeled over three weeks by israeli air strikes in an israeli invasion that destroyed eighty percent of all arab a land that destroyed the only chicken farm in the gaza strip the chicken farms i quote a tank gunner in my book saying we were ordered to fire at chickens it was the most absurd thing i'd ever done you know if only we knew what was in those chickens those terrorist chickens they destroyed the only flour mill in the gaza strip and the gaza strip has been under siege since two thousand and six the israeli human rights group subpoenaed documents from the israeli defense ministry showing that israeli administrators literally counted the calories each resident of the gaza strip was able to receive that means that they used complex mathematical formulas to determine how much people in the gaza strip can eat that shows the level of control that israel has over the residents of the gaza strip one point eight million people in what can only be described as an open air prison and we're going to come back to that but i mentioned restrictive covenants restrictive co restricted people from moving into certain neighborhoods in seattle and we consider that to be anachronistic it's something that we think we've left behind we reject it we would all go out and protest against it the pro israel students here would join you in those protests i bet those restrictive covenants were officially outlawed by a court order in seattle in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight which is a seminal year although they remained kind of in forest off the books until nine hundred sixty eight thanks to a federal ruling in one nine hundred forty eight israel was born and it brought into into history a system that was being outlawed in the united states and which was being extinguished as the colonial era drew to a close israel was born out of a classic settler colonialism the it or hurtful in a letter to cecil rhodes pleaded for his support and said our system of zionism are our project of zionism is very colonial those were his words the founders of israel set out to build a jewish state in historic palestine in a predominantly arab area that was predominantly muslim and christian how is that possible to achieve such a country and build a democracy while if you don't have a majority of jews and you want to be democratic you have to change the demographic somehow and that's not a that's that's not an easy thing to do so between one nine hundred forty seven and one nine hundred forty eight zionist militias which then became the israeli army expelled over seven hundred fifty thousand indigenous palestinians altering the demographics israel became the only settler colonial state in the twentieth century to obtain a demographic majority of its own population within the territory it controlled and to gain recognition at the un and it gained recognition at the un through subterfuge by basically lying and being deceptive it promised that it would enforce resolution one ninety four at the conference in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine because in one nine hundred forty eight israel was rejected by the general assembly of the un for admission because it refused to allow those refugees back why wouldn't allow those refugees to come back because they're not jewish if they come back and you give them the right to vote f citizenship rights you're not a jewish and democratic state now in one nine hundred forty eight there was a village near haifa called  residents were driven out but did something different than many others did because there was a campaign of organized psychological terror to ensure that people were driven into what was then jordanian controlled territory but  the family huddled in a wadi and basically hid out near their village and they stayed and they managed to reestablish themselves in the area even though they could never gain recognition from the new state of israel i arrived in and hoed and you know you can read about this in my book i don't know if it will ever show up here i arrived there in twenty ten was one of the first places i wanted to go in israel and it's a beautiful place it almost looks like you're out in bellingham which is unusual for a mediterranean middle eastern environment there is a pine forest there that israelis refer to as little switzerland with the same kind of foliage you see out here and very unusual what turns out that those pine trees were not natural to the environment or were about as natural as the hair plugs are to joe biden's head they were planted there by the jewish national fund which is it five a one c three nonprofit which raises tens of millions of dollars inside the united states and has had speakers like president bill clinton garnering one hundred thousand dollars speaking fees stephen harper has spoken  at a gala for the jewish national fund and the jewish national fund since one thousand nine hundred seven since it was founded by hurtful has been involved in displacing the indigenous population and ethnic cleansing it was its directors were on the transfer committee that decided which palestinian villages should be destroyed and who should be expelled at the end of the nakba the palestinian catastrophe in one thousand nine hundred eight and they built this forest now known as little switzerland the carmel forest over the ruins of several palestinian towns which were destroyed in one thousand nine hundred eight to ensure that the residents could not come back and rebuild it was very strategic but i know hold still stood it was saved by a romanian dadaist painter named marcel junko in one nine hundred fifty it was saved from the dynamite and the bulldozers and junko transformed it into an artist colony so when i arrived i went into these art studios which were these beautiful stone homes and i saw the judaica kitsch that was for sale and i followed a tour guide who was leading israeli tourists on a tour and who said that these are third generation homes i started asking a lot of questions and i was not it didn't seem like i was welcome in that village i had my camera and i was filming those stone homes and i filmed the local brewery and i filmed inside the restaurant called bonanza which is an area restaurant in a big stone structure that had wood burning of ins cooking pizza in a bar and i left that village looking for clues into what had happened before i'm and looking for someone to tell me an honest account of the history of it i had to go three kilometers up the road to another village called eindhoven and this was where the family had gone that village had been until two thousand and six an unrecognized village meaning the state of israel refused to supply it with electricity refused to provide it with  sewage water sanitation public schools public health clinics nothing even though they were forced to pay taxes just to be there in two thousand and six out of embarrassment the state finally granted them recognition and they are there and they took me in and explained that those stone homes used to be their homes they are not allowed to return to those homes because they are not jewish that bonanza restaurant where there were pizzas being cooked it looks so nice and beautiful they cannot go back there even though that was their mosque where they would like to go back and worship it is now bar and so the situation became pretty clear as night fell and moyen pulled out a map as so many palestinians had in so many meetings i've had with them of destroyed villages along the north coast of israel and showed me where he had lived where his relatives had lived and what lay beneath those pine trees those pine needles in a mountain of lies and it was a nakba and i said is it possible for arabs to move into the jewish i mean hood why not how do they keep you our well there was a law called the absentee property law one of the first discriminatory and racist laws passed by the state of israel which handed all of the property previously owned by the refugees who were expelled between one thousand nine hundred seven and one nine hundred forty eight into the hands of the new state of israel to give to exclusively jewish new citizens the jewish national fund has a mission of buying land or controlling land and providing it to the jewish people meaning it's land for jews only it's as good as a restrictive covenant and even though the jewish national fund all the control twenty percent of the land in what is known as israel proper it has seven out of the thirteen seats on the israel lands authority meaning which controls the rest of the land meaning that it can ensure that that land is only handed to jews but even if you look at the micro level as an acceptance committee which functions like a restrictive covenant and they vet candidates to live in that town for social suitability and they have not let anyone who isn't jewish move into the town it's the same in the misc of regional council which controls twenty six towns in the north of israel they have acceptance committees which are now requiring new applicants to take loyalty oaths or oaths to uphold zionism and it's the same and keep would seem i visited which i describe in my book close to the gaza border where they have said that their community zionist and secular and so the idea of restrictive covenants of it racially exclusive or ethnically exclusive a religiously exclusive society go to the heart of what a jewish state in historic palestine is about that is the essence of that state and that is how they maintain a jewish majority and sometimes it can look beautiful on the surface if you look at eindhoven it looks like you're in europe sometimes it's not so beautiful if you look at the separation wall six hundred thirty eight kilometers of concrete and monitoring systems monitoring systems provided by l b the state israeli state run weapons firm which just got a one hundred forty five million dollar contract from the department of homeland security to put those same monitoring systems on the us mexico border including inside nogales though that wall was put the according to benjamin netanyahu to prevent demographic spillover to separate people on ethnic and religious lines and it's the same if you look at the gaza strip was residents are eighty percent refugees meaning they have legitimate claims to land and property inside israel according to un resolution one ninety four but who must be warehoused indefinitely in as human surplus in this  besieged coastal territory simply because they're not jewish because they do not fit the character of that the state of israel is based on the ethnic character that the state is based on if they were jewish the walls would come down tomorrow they'd be allowed to fish more than three kilometers out at sea they would not be under siege they wouldn't be fired at for entering the three hundred meter buffer zone near the borders of israel it would be over hollo us but they were born into the wrong circumstances as for me i an american jew who doesn't even have israeli citizenship i have more rights than any palestinian in the world between the river jordan and the mediterranean sea simply because of who i was born to and i have about as much connection to that land as the san francisco based creedence clearwater revival does to the by you  my great grandmother money of finkelstein came over on a boat from the ukraine from the kiev where my family was completely dispossessed to the united states and my grandparents settled in the west side of chicago my parents met in cambridge massachusetts so when i go back to cambridge that's my real birthright tour i don't understand this idea that i have a birthright in israel but the state of israel is based on a secular messianic philosophy that brings me in direct connection with the de hydrated nomadic early bronze age people who wandered around this land and says that i have a direct connection to them that i was somehow my relatives were kicking it on the corner with you know smoking and smoking weed off the tomb of solomon and chilling with him and japeth that's the logic of my connection to the land of israel it's why i unlike any of you who are non jewish and especially unlike those of you are palestinian who have who we whose families are there who are diaspora palestinians why i can get citizenship tomorrow and immediate benefits from the jewish agency and i can move to an a settlement in the west bank can move wherever i want it's why i can move freely even as a non israeli while my palestinian american friends in ramallah have to beg me to sneak them through the kalandia checkpoint and through that wall just so they can go to the beach so as i said anywhere you look there's apartheid you don't even need to look beyond ben gurion international airport my experience going to that airport is a good one i've been gone since i've released the book so that might change but everyone who goes through that airport is assigned by israeli security number one through six based on your perceived danger and your danger is connected to your ethnicity so many arab americans quaker school in the west bank who was attempting to reunite with their students after a short trip to amman jordan so she could finish out the semester she was deported for ten years and those kids never got to finish the semester people like the chomsky have been deported by the state of israel at the border because of their political views norman finkelstein faced the same fate my friend jared melson a jewish american kid who's really a straightforward reporter who was working for him on news a palestinian news service was held in a printer in a cell for eight days before he was deported for ten years because of the kind of reporting he was doing i have been treated in such a favorable way because of who i am i'm asking my jewish yes my parents jewish yes my grandparents jewish yes how many times you can ask me who how many members of my family are jewish for you let me in well not too many go and i get a one or a two on one occasion when i was getting asked too many questions i said i was going to meet my girlfriend in tel aviv who didn't exist i was asked are you planning on having children and i said yes of course raising the specter of a jewish israeli woman being injected with top grade ashkenazi sperm and producing jewish babies to offset the arab demographic threat and i was greeted with a huge smile and i was waved through an additional security check while others had to have their bags hand checked i was waved through and welcomed welcome home to zion ok now where the hell am i well actually i am not in tel aviv i'm in load which used to be known as linda which used to be known as the little airfield and was captured by zionist forces after tens of thousands of palestinians were driven out of li at gunpoint after a series of massacres that are known as the little death march that is where ben gurion international is constructed on the site of palestinian destruction so as i entered israel i found everywhere i went that this kind of treatment was consistent and what i saw was that for jews like i was very lucky i could go and ignore apartheid if i wanted to i could have a really good time when i went on the birthright israel trip this free trip for young american jews i was able to kind of to now some of the ugly uglier side of israel and it's amazing that so many americans go on these tours and don't see what many of us have seen or what many of you have experienced but this time was different because i settled in street five minutes south of tel aviv and i was in the ghetto the palestinian ghetto of tel of eve which used to be known as the bride of the sea it was one of the most thriving cultural an economic cities in the arab world before nine hundred forty seven in one thousand nine hundred eight when tens of thousands of its residents were literally driven into the sea under artillery fire the community is sort of reconstituted but they live under a discriminatory regime and they are under the control of the television municipality which means they are under the control of an all jewish municipality and that's the point they have very little if no sovereignty on sum sorry for the johnnie and the does johnny family were one of the original palestinian aristocratic families the street was renamed and he brass sized and the hospital was seized by the state of israel in one nine hundred forty eight and named after a seventeenth century italian physician who is as familiar to java as an ice skating rink and that's street was named renamed after dr paul ehrlich in one thousand century austrian jewish position and this is happen all over the state of israel a new state rose up on the ruins of another after a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing but as william faulkner said the past is never dead it isn't even passed in my neighborhood there were five hundred standing eviction orders all applying to palestinians simply because in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight their homes forty percent of their homes were placed into the hands of the state holding company and they are unable to get permits to renovate their homes so if they dare build an extra bedroom or renovate their kitchen they get an eviction order there is a very clear intent here to move them out gentrification is taking place in a more aggressive way than we can even imagine in seattle the new gated community built in the center of java and drama hills has begun filing noise complaints to silence the call of the museum from the two mosques which whose foundation predates the state of israel and the local church to silence the tolling of its bells to do what the israeli government calls judaization and this is happening in cities all around israel all around israel proper i noticed the presence of right wing hooligans from the west bank in this community who had consolidated their hold on what they view as jew day in some area but we understand to be the occupied west bank and we're moving into core israeli cities to create more pressure on the indigenous population that was left bombing firebombing my favorite fish restaurant which was owned by palestinian christians and where i brought i would like to host my friends from tel aviv vandalizing the local muslim cemetery which stood directly next to the pres center for peace holding java for jews marches as you viewed in that film and this week on the anniversary of the dairy a scene massacre a massacre of palestinians in a village near jerusalem which is viewable from the from the out of a sham holocaust memorial museum the gravestones of the victims of that massacre of the more than two hundred women and children killed there were vandalized and death to arabs with spray painted on their gravestones this is happening all around israel in a campaign to finish forty eight finish forty eight is the mantra of those who lead israel right now it is the mantra of the right wing and it is why the right wing dominates israeli politics because in this crisis israel still faces resistance from the indigenous population unlike the united states they are unable to make mascots out of their indigenous population they're still resisting and one way or another they can't name their military hardware after arabs they can't name their teams after arabs as we have done with native americans because their process of settler colonialism is ongoing and so they have yet to consolidate the ethnic craddick character of the state that they want to create it's why they're always demanding that the palestinians recognize a jewish state because they feel like the project is unfinished the project that began in one nine hundred forty eight and continued seamlessly through nine hundred sixty seven with the occupation of the west bank in the gaza strip is an unfinished on the young israelis who are growing up jewish israelis and see no way out of this are more right wing than their parents and their parents generation and the government of benjamin netanyahu is openly declared through various ministers from the foreign minister avigdo lieberman who is possibly the next prime minister and defense minister moshe ya'alon that there isn't an end game and that their strategy is to maintain the situation is to maintain the crisis so that means th cover of the u s encourage status quo and beneath the cover of a media blackout which i've been trying to puncture and perforate and breakthrough ethnic cleansing is occurring day after day after day and the call to finish forty eight the montra of finish forty eight is the right wing's ticket to a permanent majority in israeli society and the closure of any democratic space closing off space for jewish israeli dissidents who are leveling their bodies that are against the occupation and who are now facing a constant wave of shin bet interrogations of monitoring and demonization they are demonized as small a name that is one of the worst insults in israel right now and it simply means leftists according to the israeli democracy institute in poll year after year after year the majority of jewish israeli youth well over fifty percent declare their refusal to sit in a classroom with an arab citizen of israel and they have declared that they would refuse to live next door to an arab or to a migrant worker they plurality of israelis in two thousand and eleven in the israeli democracy institute poll have declared that they favor detention camps for arabs during war time and when is war time in israel while the israel's been in perpetual state of emergency since one thousand nine hundred forty eight and reauthorizes it frequently in one of the most recent reauthorization supreme court justice eliot rubenstein declared that it must be reauthorized because israel is a normal country that is not normal in other words we'd like to see ourselves as normal but we will never be normal so we need to implement these measures to either maintain the situation to maintain the situation as we embark on the project of finishing forty eight and so we see the call to finish forty eight and we hear it in the words of deputy transportation minister city hall to valley the sarah palin of israel who speaks better english than sarah pailin who is thirty four and telegenic and represents the new face of the governing likud party who favors an ex in the west bank zoabi the most hated woman in israel a palestinian christian legislator who travelled on the free gaza flotilla and who is hated because she campaigns for israel as a state of all its citizens with no racial or religious preferences who has told zoabi and promised her that she would ban her and remove all arabs from the knesset and that project is on its way we hear the call to finish forty eight in the recent vote to raise the electoral threshold to four seats because the arab parties in the knesset hold less than four seats making it impossible for them to campaign as anything but a larger bloc we hear the call to finish forty eight and hold to valley declaring i am a jewish racist i favor a jewish state with a jewish majority and that is that pretty much distills the mentality of those of her generation and explain why she is on a stepping stone for higher office we hear the call to finish forty eight the tracks of state funded rabbis key religious authorities who decide who can become citizen who is a jew who can get married and who have declared that it is illegal who have falsely declared falsely misinterpreting the torah declaring that it is illegal under jewish law to rent apartments to non jews meaning arabs and african refugees as you saw a copy of that letter in the video and whose wives issued a dual letter declaring that it is illegal under jewish law to for jews to have relationships with non jews addressing their letter and orthodox women who are dating arabs who are non jewish we hear the call to finish forty eight in the anti miscegenation movement which they have inspired which is crusading in core israeli cities to prevent interracial interreligious relationships which operates a hotline allowing callers to inform on interreligious dating on the couples who are dating into religiously who operate a coast guard and patrols warning jewish women not to speak to arab men warning arab men of harsh consequences if they speak to jewish women warning placing posters all around jerusalem which i have seen containing photographs of arab arab men who are accused of making passes at jewish women or dating them and who have testified before the knesset under the on the on the dangers of assimilation at the invitation of city hall to valley the deputy transportation minister we hear the call to finish forty eight in the decision by the national civil service administration to bar religious jewish women from volunteer ing in israeli hospitals after nine pm for fear that they will date arab doctors a bizarre and peculiar decision for me as an american jew who has been raised to believe that it is good to have relationships with doctors and we that decision was endorsed by economics minister nuff tally bennett another rising star who controls the third largest party in israel by it you hoody or jewish home which has introduced a plan to do away with the idea of palestine altogether to annex sixty percent of the west bank and give jordanian residency to those living in the four main palestinian population centers and we hear the call to finish forty eight in the cries and bellows of the jewish teenagers who beat jamal gilani the nineteen year old palestinian into a coma in zion square while dozens of people watched in the heart of jerusalem where i lived for three months and where i produced several videos attempting to warn of the tide of racism that was consuming the society particularly in this place and who had one of my most widely trafficked videos banned from you tube and video on the huffington post feeling the hate in jerusalem this warning was ignored and giuliani was set on by these teens after a fifteen year old female friend of theirs accused him of making a pass on her later admitting it was a lie and they chanted a jew is a soul an arab is a son of a bitch which it happens to also be the chant of the ultras the fans  each goal at teddy's stadium in jerusalem also chant death to arabs and wave banners bearing the image of meyer kahana the racist israeli rabbi who argued for an ethnically pure state from the river to the knesset by the israeli knesset for racist incitement that loyalty oath has been passed with the endorsement of the former head of the labor party the left of center labor party and now requires all who seek to become new citizens of the state of israel to take an oath of loyalty to the jewish and democratic state in an article about the new loyalty oath declared that this is the ultimate victory of and he did so with the help of the labor party of course the labor party kahana likud any party within the zionist spectrum wants the same thing that scipio to valley said the self identified jewish racist said she wanted eighty eight continues every day every day for palestinians brings a continuation of the nakba and then bent in the negev desert the nakba continues most nakedly and this is inside israel home to eighty thousand bedouins who are not nomadic people they actually live in villages they actually often have titles to their land they don't ride around on donkeys they but they live in unrecognized villages their villages can't be recognized and they can't receive public services even though they're citizens of the state of israel even though they pay taxes even though they often even serve in the israeli army and die in the israeli army fighting palestinians why because unlike me they're not jewish if i went with and got a million together here of my jewish friends and we tried to set up a community in the negev desert we would not only get immediate benefits from the jewish agency which is calling for judaization of the negev and galilee heavily arab areas inside israel we would get state recognition and we would get hooked up to the state electricity supply sewage et not only that thanks to a recent law called the acceptance to communities act we would be able to turn anyone away based on their religion or ethnicity this law authorizes communities of under five hundred to do just that to have restrictive covenants on the books officially and so as this system which recedes in the united states it takes israel over like a tidal wave the into israeli government introduced a plan called the proverb plan spelled p r a w e r to expel forty to seventy thousand bedouins from their own recognized villages claiming that they were living there illegally and that their construction was illegal it would have authorized either the destruction of their towns or their relocation to some unspecified place and it was clear where they were going to send them in the whole history of the state of israel there are only five towns that the state of is allowed to be built for arabs there are towns like  houda which are basically indian reservations built according to the website of the or movement which administers these towns and is a subsidiary of the jewish national fund to concentrate the bedouin population and so this dark language of concentration which bears horrible resonances in jewish history but also in the history of japanese americans who are concentrated in mans in our during world war two because they were deemed to possess and any race blood has been reintroduced in the modern state of israel in the twenty first century and under the same very logic that those bedouins have been identified by benjamin netanyahu and by the chief demographer of the state of israel are known so fair who they call are non the arab counter because so fair and hebrew means counter as been identified as a demographic threat because they're having too many children we have to recognize that those children are the greatest threat to a jewish state simply by being born their crime is being born and they bear a greater threat to the jewish state than any rocket from hamas and any rocket from hezbollah because they threaten to destroy the jewish state by existing that's the logic of the state and whenever anyone tells you that way with your call for palestinian equality even amounts to the destruction of the jewish state you have to ask them so what does that say about the jewish state that equality equals destruction that's the question that so few are willing to answer so that proverb plan has been stopped in the knesset by two votes and has been reintroduced it as it  appeared in the open in israel was reported and widely debated in israel and there was widespread public support for some version of it but in this country it wasn't debated i'm sure many of you have heard about it because there's been a lot of activism around it but before that activism it wasn't discussed and it wasn't debated even though it was well known for two years inside israel what does that say about our media it's shocking this was an open plan for expulsion and when the new york times and jodie read or in the jerusalem bureau chief for the new york times finally reported on this plan she called it a resettlement program as if they're helping the bedouin which is straightforward colonial logic now finally we discussed earlier we saw a documentary about another demographic threat to israel the sixty thousand non jewish refugees who are who have come from sudan from the darfur region and from genocide at the hands of the jonjo we'd often fleeing to israel not for economic reasons but because they believe that israel had signed the un convention on refugee rights and embodied the lessons of the holocaust and would protect them and what they found was that they face a new war on their existence as they were deprived of work permits and concentrated in south tel aviv and a neighborhood under the control of a right wing and pitted against another marginalized population the misery heem or arab jews who have faced discrimination at the hands of the state but still receive benefits and so you see a situation play out in south tel aviv that resembles the situation in the american deep south where poor whites were pitted against poor blacks by all the garth's to break down the class interest they shared in particular vent their solidarity and to preserve this system of dominance and inequality and it is what led to those race riots you saw in that video on may twenty first may twenty third two thousand and twelve miri raghav who has since been promoted to interior committee chairperson in th knesset stood before a thousand angry residents of the how to one quarter in tel aviv that poor south tel aviv neighborhood and declared that africans are a cancer in israel's body according to the israeli democracy institute fifty two percent of jewish israelis agreed with that opinion and in on a plurality agreed with acts of violence against africans to drive them out at least shy who declared that this cut the interior committee chairperson the the head of the israeli interior committee and the chairman of the supremacist shah party who appeared at the beginning of that documentary promised to make the lives of africans miserable and he said that they are muslims who don't recognize that this country belongs to the white man interesting because you shy as you saw has olive skin is not white his family comes from tunisia but in israel race is constructed and identity is constructed on a different basis and as a jew he sees himself as a member of the white man as as a white man and so on may twenty third tw twelve after miri reagan's proclamation hundreds of vandals set out into the neighborhoods filled where africans were attempting to maintain businesses and homes and attacked them attacked any african they could find and were held back from a full scale riot and bloodshed by the last minute presence of border police this was taken as a sign by benjamin netanyahu and his government to act and so they amended they amended  fifty three law called the prevention of infiltration act which was originally intended to legalize the presence of palestinians driven out between one nine hundred forty seven and nine hundred forty eight to apply to africans and so under this law any african who is non jewish who had committed the crime of not being a jew inside is israeli territory could be picked up arrested and detained indefinitely without being charged with anything much like those migrants who i met today who have been deprived of legal counsel and not charged and held indefinitely and five hundred of them are now in the holo internment center in the negev desert which also relies on private prison contractors in israel one of the companies that provides much of the prisons that hold palestinians and will hold african migrants is one of the one of them that provides them with surveillance equipment and a means to control this population is g four s and g four s is increasingly getting contracts in the u s and is at the top of the boycott list movement so holo it is an interesting has an interesting set of rules which are different from our i centers because they're simply prisons israel doesn't consider to be a prison they call it an open accommodation center and anyone held there is allowed to technically leave except there's nowhere to go because they're in the negev desert and they have to check in three times a day for roll call the only rule that confines them is that they must be there after sundown for fear that they will integrate into the israeli public for fear that they will assimilate and so they reminded me this rule of rules that i had spoken about before restrictive covenants but there are other rules james lowe in the american historian wrote about these towns that dotted the american landscape in the twenty's and thirty's called sundown towns that had inactive ordinances limiting in legalizing the presence of african americans after sundown so with this new legislation the prevention of infiltration act the move to fully deport africans in contravention of the un refugee rights convention and the holo internment center israel has established the largest sundown town in the world and based on an open logic about the knocker see which is anachronistic and which we thought we had aband d here but which we are still fighting in this country to prevent from to prevent from re entering our politics and our policies it's why people are protesting in tacoma it's why people organized in limpia to honor the legacy of rachel corrie and to honor the hard work of craig and cindy corrie have been who've been fighting for ten years for divestment from caterpillar whose d n a bulldozers have contributed to the destruction of over twenty six thousand palestinian homes since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven according to the israeli committee against home demolition it's why the people in the limpia fought the israeli government working through stand with us there far right islamophobia extremist organization to end their slapp suit their strategic lawsuit against public participation and took it all the way to court and finally triumphed and can now divest from israeli goods and speak out and state the opposition to this occupation and this apartheid and get in the way it's why i'm seeing at campus after campus after campus divestment resolutions with students coming together jewish arab african american latino across the board massive solidarity and massive unity to introduce divestment resolutions from cut from corporations that are involved in occupation i was actually i started this leg of my book tour abruptly at the last second when the university of michigan students for just this in palestine flew me out at the last second to speak at the debate over their divestment resolution six hundred people were in the room five hundred more waiting outside five hundred more students were waiting outside this issue is over taking campuses it's becoming one of the key issues on campus to and it is ending the reprieve that the military industrial complex which has so many millions of dollars of contracts and research and development at american universities it's ending the reprieve that they got after nine eleven it is doing what the anti war movement has failed to do since the election of barack obama with this movement we see growing on this country which starts with palestine but draws so many intersections to the treatment of indigenous people to the treatment of african americans in the inner city who are facing policies of stop and frisk and felony disenfranchise treatment of prisoners all these issues that have been left out and are ignored in washington which are expanding the horizons of the debate with this movement we're seeing a recognition that the facts that i described in my book which are horrible and what you're dispossessing palestinians and destroying their lives but also corroding the fabric of jewish israeli society and corroding jewish life everywhere sending it on a moral freefall that that won't change until this country changes first until the war between the two americas is resolved and that's what students for justice in palestine is doing and that's why it's contingent on you to get in the way before finn before nine hundred forty eight is finished and you get in the way here just as rachel corrie got in the way in gaza and you get in the way here by divesting and it will happen here i hope it will happen here and i hope you'll succeed but the spy simply introducing the resolution and by bringing this debate to your campus  bringing activism around this issue you already triumphed thank you