!["It is Israel... that justifies Palestinian suffering by invoking Jewish suffering," writes Joseph Massad [Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/20131214395599734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Solidarity with Jewish suffering should lead to solidarity with victims of Zionist racism, the Palestinians
!["The Palestinian people, unlike the PA leadership, refuse to acquiesce to Zionism's colonial project, as they have not given up hope but remain hopeful that the colonisation of their land is reversible," writes Massad [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/201382273643786734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Almost a century after the Balfour Declaration, the Palestinians’ rights are being negotiated away by the PA.
!["Herzl's dual approach of declaring peaceful intentions for public consumption behind which he sought to hide Zionism's violent strategy of conquering the land of the Palestinians... continues to be the cornerstone of Israeli policy to the present," writes author [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/20125161106815382_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Reframing war as a means to peace was and is an integral element of the Zionist project, writes scholar.
It is Israel’s claims that it represents and speaks for all Jews that are the most anti-Semitic claims of all.
![The Palestinians have neither died away nor forgotten their rights, and those among them who remain on the land continue to be steadfast in the face of Israel’s colonial expulsion policies [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2013330135139669734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Like everything else with Zionism and Israel, their conception of rights is never universal but always particular.
![Israel's expertise in separation fences and walls was put to productive use with the massive "Apartheid Wall" it built on Palestinian lands [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/201331963027290580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Zionism and Israel will continue to support any boycott that seeks to institutionalise racism and racial separatism.
!["The statements made by Issam al-Aryan, a senior leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, calling on Egyptian Jews in Israel to return home, are hardly novel," writes author [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/20131610921533580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Despite claims to the contrary, it isn’t all sunshine and rainbows when Jewish Egyptians reflect on Egypt.
!["Binyamin Netanyahu argued in his UN speech last year that Palestinian resistance to Jewish colonial settlement in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is itself anti-Semitic," says Massad [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/20121129175242836734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Zionist leaders consciously recognised that state anti-Semitism was essential to their colonial project, writes Massad.
!["That American shows are now equal-opportunity offenders in their racism against internal and external others is hardly news, but that the first black American president is a fan of them should be," writes Massad [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2012101874552301734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The award winning TV show does little to alleviate the myths and misconceptions about Arabs and Muslims, writes author.
![In Libya and Syria, the dictatorial regimes "which served US interests faithfully for a long time" retained a certain measure of independence in domestic and foreign policy [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20128298252758734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The uprisings have raised great economic expectations on the part of the majority of Tunisians and Egyptians.