The missing Israeli incitement against Palestinians

The Hill

The missing Israeli incitement against Palestinians

“Who is the enemy? The Palestinian people. … They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised here.” This noxious and racist quote from Ayelet Shaked, the current Israeli justice minister, failed to make the cut in a resolution — H.Res. 293 — marked up and passed by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee in a voice vote earlier this month.

The resolution condemns anti-Semitic and anti-Israel incitement in the Palestinian Authority, but fails to cite one example of Islamophobic or anti-Palestinian incitement by Israeli officials. Herein lays the major problem with H.Res. 293: Like most House resolutions pertaining to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is unabashedly one-sided, dispensing with any pretense of objectivity.

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