Not until western colonial powers invaded and colonized the middle east that the fight between these communities started. Until Israel was founded by the British empire, arab jews were living normally among their arab brothers and sisters. It is the western colonial policy to segregate and conquer that spread that hate between different communities in the middle east.

The persecution of minorities in the arab world in our late history does not root itself in the culture of tolerance in Islam, but is a direct consequence of the colonial oppression. The intolerant forces have been empowered by the colonial powers themselves, and are gaining more support by the population because of the feeling of desperation and the lack of justice.

Israel should be boycotted until it respects international law and universal humanitarian law. As long as there is no justice in the middle east, there will be no peace.

Where have these muslim “citizens” of Bethlehem come from?

Boycott the Arab countries who are killing their christian citizens. Where are the Christian Arabs? They were the majority in these countries (with the Jews). They all have been slaughtered or driven away!

That’s why Arab muslims are barbaric.

The problem is with such comments, or discourses, they talk about a tall order of issues i.e. The whole Middle East, Democracy in the region, Islam, Jesus etc… which end up serving as a means to detract from the core issues of social justice.

Palestinians, be them muslim, christian, atheist, or be them from the West Bank, Gaza, 1948 (Israel “proper”) or refugees, suffer from a multi-tiered system of oppression that ranges from the Apartheid wall, check points, and appropriated land and water resources for settlers to a complete military blockage in Gaza, to second-class citizenship in 1948 (where supposed Palestinian equal “citizens” of Israel who at best receive 1/3 municipal, i.e. funds allocated to schools, and at worst live in “unrecognized” villages in which they don’t even receive water or electricity) to a refugee crisis in which newcomers (mostly Europeans and North Americans) are sold the home of refugees to which many still have the keys but are stopped and not allowed to enter at the border.

This is not a democracy, this is apartheid. And it is also you should join us on March 30th. A day which represents democracy as it is based in history of civil disobedience to oppression where many youth’s were shot and killed just for speaking out on injustice.

If you want to protect democracy, come out with us on the 30th and fight for it.

Savez-vous, par exemple, que les chrétiens de la “terre natale” que vous mentionnez sont, justement, des Palestiniens?! Savez-vous que tous les Palestiniens ne sont ni barbares, ni islamistes, ni même musulmans?!

Savez-vous aussi que le fameux “état de droit” auquel vous faites allusion détient le triste record de violations de résolutions de l’ONU, du droit international et, singulièrement, des droits humains fondamentaux des Palestiniens?

Savez-vous tout ce qui rapproche la politique israélienne de celle de l’Afrique du Sud des années 1980? L’Etat que vous appelez “démocratie” pratique la colonisation, des discriminations et un racisme institutionnel, avec la complicité de nos Etats occidentaux, tout aussi “démocratiques”.

Savez-vous que les Etats du monde n’ont fait pression sur l’Afrique du Sud pour qu’elle démantèle l’Apartheid qu’à la suite d’une forte campagne de boycott de la société civile? C’est ce qui se passe en ce moment, et il est encore temps de prendre le train en marche…