The late Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz speaks of the colonialist Zionist project, which, at the middle of the 20th century leaves only South Africa and Israel as the last remaining colonialist regimes which ought to be dismantled. YES, THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR DECADES... HES SPEAKING IN HEBREW BUT HAS ENGLISH SUB-TITLES... He was an Israeli public intellectual, professor to Biochemistry, Organic chemistry and Neurophysiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a POLYMATH (A GENIUS ACROSS MANY FIELDS, A RENAISSANCE MAN ) known for his outspoken opinions on Judaism, ethics, religion and politics. more on Israeli colonialism, occupation and apartheid: In 1993, he was selected for the Israel Prize. Before the award ceremony, Leibowitz was invited to speak to the Israel Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, where his controversial remarks **calling upon Israeli soldiers to refuse orders** [ME: IN THE TERRITORIES OF PALESTINE BECAUSE OF THE HORRIBLY CRUEL TREATMENT OF PALESTINE BY SOLDIERS WHICH HE COMPARED TO NAZIS] triggered outrage (and Yitzhak Rabin had threatened to boycott the ceremony). The jury convened to discuss the possibility of withdrawing the prize, but Leibowitz himself announced that he would refuse to accept it, because he did not want to create antagonism when receiving the prize-WIKIPEDIA bit.ly/IsraeliApartheid https://youtube/watch?v=W46kZAfQ2XA
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