State of Israel

Not to be confused with the historic region, the Land of Israel

Israel, officially known as the State of Israel, is a state with limited recognition occupying most of Palestine.

The modern State of Israel has its roots in the Zionist movement, a political ideology centered around the creation of a Jewish state to replace Palestine. While many Zionists may be Jewish, most Zionists are Christians. Of the 100 million evangelical Christians in the United States of America, Zionists constitute more than 72%. This number of evangelical Zionists, in the USA alone, outnumbers the number of Jewish people worldwide, which is no more than 20 million.

In the spirit of national self-determination, proposals for a Jewish State have been made by socialists such as Joseph Stalin, but the British Empire's plan to settle the already-populous region of Palestine have been likened to settler colonialism, especially considering the apartheid-like conditions under which the Palestinians live.

Today, most communists see Israel as a settler ethnostate with aims to eliminate the Palestinian population (see below). Other minorities are also targeted, such as non-white Jews (notably from Ethiopia or Morocco), who are forcefully sterilised or forced to emigrate from Israel. These populations were originally brought in to give Zionists legitimacy over Palestine but since this has been achieved, they are now the targets of genocide as well.

International recognition

Green: Recognize Israel, Brown: Recognition withdrawn, Red: Suspended relations, Grey: Never recognized Israel

As of December 2020, Israel has received international recognition by 164 of the other 192 UN member states. Besides not having diplomatic relations, Israel's sovereignty is disputed by some countries.

Israeli ethnostate

According to whistleblower Eran Efrati (with many other ex-IDF soldiers saying the same), Israeli children are exposed to supremacist propaganda since kindergarten. IDF soldiers visit children in schools at all ages throughout the year to talk to them about the greatness of Israel and Israelis, and how they are justified in seizing land from the Palestinians. These visits also serve another purpose: they reinforce the legitimacy of the IDF, so that children grow up to see it positively and, when conscripted, are proud to join and obey orders.

History of genocide against Palestine

21st century

• In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights council mandated a report delving into the situation between Gaza and Israel. It found many crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinians, including:
  • that the blockade does not exonerate Israel from providing humanitarian aid to Gaza (which they don't do),
  • inadequate warnings against bomb strikes, including the use of white phosphorus weapons against hospitals which are not military targets,
  • indiscriminate bombing in Gaza in retaliation for pinpointed strikes from Hamas (Hamas gives advance warning of their rocket fires which gives ample time for Israel to evacuate the population in shelters, most of which will be caught by the Iron Dome, both of which Gaza does not have),
  • violent, degrading, and arbritrary detentions of Palestinian civilians,
  • deliberate military disproportion used in retaliation.
• In October 2015, the Institute for Middle East Understanding shared quotes from senior Israeli government officials depicting supremacist and racist statements against the Palestinian people in particular.
• The Israeli Defense Force, Israel's military branch, receives and executes orders to shoot children with live ammunition. It was made most apparent during the 2018 Great March of Return, during which Palestinians peacefully marched towards the fence isolating Gaza, and were fired at with live ammunition including an as-of-yet unidentified chemical agent. Children also participated in this protest, of which 46 were killed by the IDF, many of them shot by snipers. As whistleblower Eran Efrati explained, soldiers do not decide by themselves to fire live ammunition -- the order has to be decided, then given out to the soldier who executes it, then relayed back to command. Therefore, these can not be the acts of lone soldiers