Sylvain Cypel, a French editor, writes with the passion of a convert, one betrayed by the faith in which he was raised
and foreign correspondent who lived in Israel for 12 years, trained there to be a youth movement leader and even served in a paratroop brigade after being drafted.
Although the accusation of apartheid has gained much more currency in the last couple of years, it was almost 20 years ago when Cypel first heard the case for it. It came in an interview he conducted with Cypel begins his prosecution by quoting an assortment of headlines from a six-month period in 2018 and 2019:Israel said a Palestinian was killed in clashes. A video shows he was shot in the backAfter shooting a Palestinian teen, Israeli troops dragged him around – and chased an ambulance away, a human rights organization, studied 1,163 complaints to police from Palestinians who said they were victims of violence by settlers.
“Israel seems to have no sense of what within it could avert that disaster, or who would do it,” he writes. “Does Jewish society have what it takes to resist the current that is carrying it? The answer has to be no.”
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