{"id":251968,"date":"2024-01-15T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=251968"},"modified":"2024-01-06T05:26:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T05:26:38","slug":"the-myth-of-israels-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/01\/the-myth-of-israels-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of Israel&#8217;s &#8216;Democracy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>5 Jan 2024 &#8211; <\/strong><em>Israeli historian Ilan Papp\u00e9 on Israel&#8217;s end game in Gaza and the future of the Israeli apartheid state.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\">Israel&#8217;s status as a bona fide democracy is often taken to be a self-evident truth, but a more critical look at the history and reality of Zionism calls this into question. After all, how can a democracy exist in a country constitutionally defined as an ethnostate that can only exist through the suppression and gradual elimination of its Others? Israeli historian Ilan Papp\u00e9 joins <em>The Chris Hedges Report<\/em> for a discussion on Israel as an inherently colonial, and therefore anti-democratic, project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The myth of Israel&#039;s &#039;democracy&#039; w\/Ilan Papp\u00e9 | The Chris Hedges Report\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L1PKlV1JMBU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\">Ilan Papp\u00e9 is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK, where he directs the European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-directs the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. Prior to coming to the UK, Papp\u00e9 was a historian and politician in Israel. He is the author of several books, including <\/span><\/em><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\">The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine<\/span><em><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for\u00a0<\/em>The New York Times<em>,\u00a0where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief. He previously worked overseas for\u00a0<\/em>The Dallas Morning News,\u00a0The Christian Science Monitor, <em>and<\/em> NPR<em>. He used to be the host of the Emmy Award-nominated <\/em>RT America<em> show\u00a0<\/em>On Contact<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>TRANSCEND VIDEOS <\/em>STAY POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Jan 2024 &#8211; Israeli historian Ilan Papp\u00e9 on Israel&#8217;s end game in Gaza and the future of the Israeli apartheid state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[1854,87,865,1643,1644,88,427,1218,124,965],"class_list":["post-251968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-genocide-convention","tag-international-court-of-justice-icj","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-south-africa","tag-united-nations","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251969,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251968\/revisions\/251969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}