U.S. Backs Apartheid State Executing a Genocide in Gaza: MEARSHEIMER

The U.S. provides Israel with nearly $4 billion in annual military aid.

Professor John Mearsheimer, the professor and co-author of “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, told Judge Andrew Napolitano's podcast Thursday that Israel is an apartheid state carrying out a genocide in Gaza with the full support of the U.S. government.

“Israel is clearly an apartheid state despite the fact that its supporters here in the West recoil at that label,” he said.

He said Israel supporters like to make the argument that it’s a flawed democracy.

“In my opinion, this is not a serious argument,” he said. “An aparthied state cannot be a flawed liberal democracy. An apartheid state is a racist state.”

Israel can burn down Palestinian homes, kill innocent civilians, and conduct near-nightly raids in some of the poorest refugee camps in the world, and the U.S. will still support its government with funding and weapons.

The U.S. provides Israel with nearly $4 billion in annual military aid.

In 2022, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said “If this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain would be our commitment to our aid—I don’t even call it our aid—our cooperation with Israel. That’s fundamental to who we are.”

While essentially unreported in the United States, and chastised when it was, the human rights group Amnesty International agreed with othe humanitarian groups in 2022 that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians meets the internationally accepted definition of apartheid.

Kenneth Roth, the former Human Rights Watch executive director, told The New York Times in May 2021 that the “oppression of Palestinians there has reached a threshold and a performance that meets the definitions of the crimes of apartheid and persecution.”

The paper reported at the time that Palestinians have been making the claim about the conditions there since the 1960s. President Jimmy Carter agreed with this back in 2006, and there is a growing number of Jewish human-rights groups that also make the claim.

“This trifecta of Israeli, American, and British documentation will prove an extremely important breakthrough for Palestinian human rights in terms of its timing, precedence, scope, legality, globality, boldness and ramifications,” Marwan Bishara, a senior political analyst, wrote in Al Jazeera after the Amnesty’s 211-page report came out.

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