JIMMY CARTER: ISRAEL TICKS APARTHEID BOXES

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, has died at age 100. Like all U.S presidents, he was an imperialist, but he said some good stuff about Israel after he left office.

In this 2007 clip from a @democracynow interview, former US President Jimmy Carter (1977-81) highlighted how the state of Israel is not only like the South African apartheid state but more restrictive.

In 2022, Amnesty International declared Israel an apartheid state in a 280-page report that documented how Tel Aviv controls Palestinian territories and people. Other groups, including Human Rights Watch and Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, came to the same conclusion a year prior.

Since the 7 October escalation in the 75-year Israeli occupation, Israel has killed nearly 200,000 Palestinians and injured many more according to the Lancet medical report. Israel controls movement into and out of the Palestinian territories, it has blocked the entry of foreign aid and Palestinians’ attempts to flee Israel’s military attacks.

However, the United States has provided the most foreign aid to Israel than to any other country since 1948. That funding continued during Carter’s term.

Let us know if you agree with Carter.