7 August 2016, Alternative Information Center http://www.alternativenews.org (Israel)
Written by Michel Warschawski*
Struggling against Israel as a fascist or
apartheid state must be a part of an anti-colonial struggle that Jews
themselves participate in.
Fascism, apartheid
My friend and comrade Eli Aminov sent me a text
that he wrote titled Fascism or Apartheid. In his piece,
he argues with an
article recently published in Haaretz and
written by Professor Zeev Sternhell, a leading expert on European fascism.
Sternhell’s article warns of fascism in Israel and convincingly demonstrates
local developments reminiscent of Germany in the 1930s. In response, Aminov
argues that the term “apartheid” is key to understanding contemporary Israeli
society.
If we use the term “fascism” in its broadest
sense rather than its classical definition – which
assumes that a strong working class threatens the capitalist system and
consequently must be destroyed – then
Sternhell, Avrum Burg and others who use the term are right: in the past
decade the radical right wing regime has employed violent means to thwart all
opposition. Such means include passing anti-democratic laws, employing tactics
of
