Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger
1 min readOct 17, 2024

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Another obstacle in this path of fairness is the insistence upon falsely labeling Israel an “apartheid” or “racist” state. This flawed and bigoted argument fails to take into account the 1.8 million Arab citizens of Israel, whose members serve as generals in the IDF, justices on the Supreme Court, and in the legislature. The far left falsely defines a political struggle as a race war. (It is indeed true that from the standpoint of Iran and its surrogates, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, this is a race ware to wipe out Jews, but all Israel wants is to be able to live in peace without pogroms, terrorist attacks, and endless threats of war.)

The fake “racist” or “apartheid” label ignores the fact that majority of Israeli Jews are not white, but are descended from Mizrahi Jews from Arab lands, or are among the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian Israelis, or the hundreds of thousands of Jews from India, Turkey, Iran, Latin America, or converts and “returning” Jews from Asia, Africa, South America. There is no racial component to Judaism; we come in every color and from every corner of the world. We are bound by culture, belief, and history, not race. Anyone is eligible to become Jewish.

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Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger
Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger

Written by Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger

Criminal lawyer now a writer. Author of a 6 novel thriller series set in Bangkok & one rock novel set in 1971 NYC. Loves guitar, yoga, travel, nature, politics.

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