The general goal is to present five aspects of discrimination experienced by Jews under the Zionist regime’s colony, which can be likened to apartheid.

We have decided to focus first on three key areas that help illustrate the issue of racism under the Zionist regime. These areas are geography, education, and society. Our discussion will include different types of racism, such as personal/internalized racism, interpersonal racism, institutional racism, and structural racism.* Additionally, we will delve into the economic and legal implications of apartheid in the Israel colony in the following section.

*While there are countless examples in Hebrew of racism but they may not have an English equivalent. In such cases, we will include the Hebrew translations.

The first aspect is the Geographical separation within the colony of Israel (Kibbutzim and other shapes of isolated forms of life under the Zionist regime).

One form of life has been described as “the kibbutz system and kept these fortified communities – that would later become a model for the settlements in the occupied territories – largely off-limits to anyone who was not like them. […] These places were literally gated communities, in which vetting committees decided who could live there and armed guards manned the entrance to keep everyone else out. That meant most especially Palestinians, of course, but it also applied to Jews from Middle East countries who were recruited, reluctantly by the Ashkenazi elite, through the 1950s to the new Jewish state’s demographic war against the Palestinians. ” It not says that they are still living in those places, where “The resulting ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and the erasure of hundreds of their towns and villages – what Palestinians call their Nakba, or Catastrophe – is either mystified or presented simply as a desperate act of self-defence by a long-victimised people. […] There was nothing egalitarian or redemptive about the kibbutz, not even for the Jews who lived in the new state of Israel. […] It was actually a clever way for Israel’s rulers to disguise the mass theft of Palestinian land and entrench a new religious, ethnic and class divide between Jews.”
There is no mention also of the similarities between the isolation in these areas’ form of life and how those people used to live in Europe’s shtetls in the past. Several residents in these ghettos, as mentioned above, originally villages and lands taken from Palestinians, still live in isolation for four generations. They tend to start families with others from the same ghetto. Non-Ashkenazim are unable to move through these areas or reside in them. Despite this, they receive funding from taxes and support from army units for agricultural work, benefiting from all the profits. It is noteworthy that even after deciding to move away from this system at some point, they still live in these places and lead nearly the same lifestyle, except that they have now acquired all rights to the land, houses, and farms.
“The kibbutz were not only nice places to live […] Ashkenazi elite. […] with their spacious grounds for homes and gardens, but they […] new Ashkenazi elite: the top ranks of the army, a large government administration, a business class, and the judiciary.”
The text suggests that the dominance of this group is a consequence of 75 years of favorable circumstances. However, this assertion is incorrect in regard to the preservation of power. The text fails to recognize the pervasive existence of discriminatory ideologies towards Jews and Arabs, as well as the perpetuation and transfer of authority within these communities and base on race.

To be countinued

Links

Kibbuzim: a list of all the Kibbuzim in Israel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Kibbutzim

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-state-building-project-unravelling-within