PA daily op-ed: “Israel is not a democratic state… [it] was established in accordance with a racist colonialist decision… [which] invented a different people… which it says is the Jewish people”
Excerpt of an op-ed by Bassem Barhoum, regular columnist for the official PA daily
Headline: “Democracy in the swamp of racism”
“We did not need new evidence in order to discover that Israel is not a democratic state. This entity was established in accordance with a racist colonialist decision – the Balfour Promise (i.e., Declaration) – which cancelled the existence of the Palestinian people and on the other hand invented a different people on its ruins, which it says is the Jewish people. Israel, as the state occupying the land of another people, cannot be defined as democratic. Therefore, we were not surprised when Israel prevented the entry of American Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar (in August 2019 due to their promotion of the BDS movement to boycott Israel –Ed.).”