The Return of Yael Sternhell

Yael Sternhell, 35, was a news anchor on Channel One TV in Israel from 1999-2002, previously at Galei Tzahal and Kol Yisrael.  Prejudiced, biased and far-left leaning, it was impossible for her to disguise it.  She eventually undertook an academic career in the US, and is back in Israel.

Well, she's back, claiming that in Israel of 2011, empathy toward the Palestinian side invokes hatred and distrust.  Her op-ed in Haaretz suggests that

The anger at Israelis who support Palestinian independence resembles the treatment of whites who supported the black civil rights movement.

No wonder for she completed her Ph.D. at Princeton University and her dissertation was 'Revolution in Motion: Human Mobility and the Transformation of the South, 1861-1865', on the political, social and cultural impact of human mobility in shaping the history of the American South during the Civil War.  She's pro-Democratic Party.


And she explains in this op-ed (her previous one was pro-Obama):

We, the Jews who live in Israel, participate each day, each hour, in the denial of basic rights to Palestinian citizens, in the perpetuation of the settlements and the occupation. We're in a similar position to that of many whites in the United States in the 1960s...The march supporting the Palestinian declaration of independence is a golden opportunity for change. It's the moment we can say to ourselves, to our Palestinian neighbors and the entire world that we too can be freed from the chains of hatred, fear and the racism that grips the State of Israel...Taking part in a solidarity march is a similar choice to the one of the whites who joined the march from Selma. It is the choice to take a stand, in real time, on the right side of history.

Of course, there really is no comparison - not in the matter of slavery, nor the circumstances which led to the administration by Israel of Judea, Samaria and Gaza following 1967 nor in the 'true feelings' we Israelis should feel/empathize with as regards the Arabs of the areas of the former Mandate of Palestine not as yet under full Israeli sovereignty.

The real hatred, fear (?) and racism exists mainly on the Arab side, as well as a significant dose of antisemitism.

Yael is a prime example of Jewish self-hatred. Her true father's daughter.

What a shameful display of misrepresentation.

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