Unforeseen Contingencies

"We" at Unforeseen Contingencies always strive to be on the cutting edge, and what could be cutting-edgier than celebrating "Israel-Apartheid Week," a carnival of hatred against Israel and Israelis?  Israel-Apartheid Week (IAW) is a pro-BDS movement that promotes eliminating Israel.  IAW rejects the 1948 borders, and even the idea of a Jewish homeland; they are explicit about this.  (See the  second and fourth paragraphs.) (But caution: their website is set so that you cannot click back to this one.)

To celebrate, let's share the concerns of Micah Lakin Avni, who just spoke before the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees).  Avni's father, Richard Avni, was a school principal who taught both Jewish and Arab children.  He was an American who immigrated to Israel.  As a young man in the U.S., he had been active in the civil rights movement, and after moving to Israel he promoted rights of Palestinians.  In 2015, Palestinian terrorists stabbed and shot him to death, because he was, after all, Jewish.

His son recently spoke to the UNHCR concerning the Palestinian Authority's (PA) longstanding practice of paying bounties -- permanent incomes, in fact -- to families of those who murdered his father and similar terrorists.  As he put it, "What if I paid to butcher your fathers?"

Great question.  UNHCR had no answer.  Those who pronounce Israel an apartheid state, or even who see moral equivalence between Israel and the exterminationists of the PA and Hamas, need this shoved in their faces.  They are on the side of murder.  Israel is not an apartheid state.  Israelis who are Arabs, Blacks, Muslims, Christians, and Druse all have equal rights.  The "apartheid" claim is disinformation, designed to demonize a country that is a thorn in the New Left's side, for some reason.

OTOH, what "apartheid" literally means is "separateness."  In that sense, perhaps Israel might be well-advised to separate itself entirely from the PA territory, Gaza, and Syria?  Put up impenetrable walls, backed by minefields and missile defense systems and anti-tunnel defenses, and blast anyone who dares try venture across?  That would at least isolate the Palestinians from the supposedly pernicious effects of contact with Jews; would that help, in the eyes of the BDS/IAW movement?  I'm guessing not.  PA territories and Gaza would die on their own; they need Israel to survive.

Our "Israeli Apartheid Week" celebration seems to be petering out.  The problem is that Israel, a Jewish state, is a country of freedom, and the Palestinian alternatives, PA and Hamas, are regimes of murderous thugs, and Israeli Apartheid Week is a disgusting farce.  But Unforeseen Contingencies remains cutting edge, for what could be more cutting edge than cutting down the left's cutting edge?