VIDEO 6 minutes This video features a member of the Israeli parliament from the Balad party, Dr. Jamal Zahalka, along with Moshe Feiglin, a rightwing member of the parliament. Zahalka: Honorable Chair, Ladies and Gentleman of the Knesset Feiglin: Yes go ahead, please. Zahalka: Even before I was born, before it was even conceived and started to take form, the idea of a nation-Jewish state received criticism which is also relevant today. In 1939 the Zionist congress which convened at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City decided to establish a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine. A year later the Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt writes — who was a Zionist in her way, she wasn’t an anti-Zionist, she fled from the Nazis in Germany and settled in the U.S. — she wrote an article that expressed a staunch opposition to an idea [of a national-Jewish state], she said you offer the Palestinians, residents of the land, a second class citizenship. This is what she wrote in 1941. Feiglin: Did she say the word Palestinians? Zahalka: Palestine. Of course. Palestine Eretz Israel. That is how it was called and written in English. She wrote in English not in Hebrew. Feiglin: I’d be happy to see the source. Zahalka: OK, I suggest you read her. You are of course in her exact opposite world. Feiglin: I only ask to see the source. Zahalka: Because she has a human world view, against totalitarianism, ultra-nationalism, so listen a little, learn a little. Other: Are you sitting here as a reviewer? Feiglin: Just because, just interested. Zahalka: She wrote, c’mon she was an anti-Nazi, anti-fascist. You’re a fascist. You’re just a fascist, let me carry on speaking…. Feiglin: No I will not. Zahalka: It is not a curse for you, “fascist” is a compliment. Feiglin: No I will not allow you to carry on, even though your words were very interesting. Zahalka: She wrote… Feiglin: No, you will stop now. Zahalka: You won’t stop me. Feiglin: Of course I will stop you. Zahalka: You will not stop me. Feiglin: Because you will not call the Chair a fascist. Zahalka: You will not stop me! Feiglin: I ask of the ushers to bring down the speaker. Zahalka: I observe that you are a fascist. A fascist advocates national supremacy over others! And he’s anti-democratic. Feiglin: Thank you very much. Of course I can do this. (guards start dragging Zahalka away as he is yelling) Zahalka: What do you think this is?!! I won’t let you! I will carry on speaking! I will carry on speaking! What is this?! Fascism is taking over! This is exactly what you’re doing here! You’re fascist and a racist! - See more at: mondoweiss.net/2014/11/observe-fascist-feiglin#sthash.uVtneMAa.dpuf
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 23:51:48 +0000
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