Jetteke van Wijk: Israel: 'Elke dag zon.'http://palestinaindemedia.blogspot.com/2006/06/jetteke-van-wijk-spreekbuis-van-isral.html
The first 'news headline' I spotted this morning was about a kibbutz near Kfar Saba named Nir Eliahu having announced the admission of its first Arab Muslim member [...]
First and foremost is the odd fact that the [secular] kibbutz movement - a vast bastion of liberalism - took so long to admit an Arab member. After all, during the heyday of the foreign volunteer craze in the 70s and 80s, there was never any kibbutz that didn't have a few non-Jewish Scandinavians or Europeans as full members as a result of kibbutz members marrying foreign volunteers who were just too tempting to leave alone. So why all the fuss over an Arab?
Then in re-reading the article an odd paragraph jumped out as a possible explanation:
"The kibbutzim were always very Zionist Jewish communes... they never admitted Arabs. The purpose [of the kibbutz movement] was to create a Jewish working class. The Arabs were irrelevant to that... Although times have changed, that that mind-set persists to the present day." [...] Oh, I see now... according to an expert on the secular kibbutz movement, Zionism means keeping Jews and Arabs apart. Fascinating!' Zie:
http://www.treppenwitz.com/2008/06/racism-its-all.html
Opmerkelijk is dat de correspondente Jetteke van Wijk helemaal geen enkel probleem lijkt te hebben gehad met dit racisme. Ze zegt er in het interview geen woord over. De enige zinnige conclusie daaruit is dat ze het joods-Israelisch racisme niet relevant genoeg vindt om er diepgaand over te berichten. Waarom niet? Omdat het niet past in de pro-Israel propaganda. Bovendien ze had 'Nederland en het thuiszitten wel even gezien. De kibboets leek een mooie manier om elke dag zon te hebben.' En zon is er genoeg.
Ik schrijf dit vanwege het feit dat Jetteke van Wijk afgelopen zaterdag in Trouw weer zo'n opmerkelijk pro-Israel propagandastuk publiceerde. Daarover later meer.
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