{"id":139526,"date":"2024-01-06T17:39:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T00:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139526"},"modified":"2024-01-06T17:40:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T00:40:18","slug":"israel-cannot-be-a-colonial-power-and-a-democracy-therealnews-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/01\/06\/israel-cannot-be-a-colonial-power-and-a-democracy-therealnews-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel cannot be a colonial power and a democracy (therealnews.com)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span class=\"byline\">BY\u00a0<span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/author\/chris-hedges\">CHRIS HEDGES Courtesy The Real News Network<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><em>Israeli historian Ilan Papp\u00e9 reframes \u2018the only democracy in the Middle East\u2019 as a colonizing force that is inherently undemocratic due to its necessary subjugation of Palestinians.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel\u2019s status as a bona fide democracy is often taken to be a self-evident truth, but a more critical look at the history and reality of Zionism calls this into question. After all, how can a democracy exist in a country constitutionally defined as an ethnostate that can only exist through the suppression and gradual elimination of its Others? Israeli historian Ilan Papp\u00e9 joins\u00a0<em>The Chris Hedges Report<\/em>\u00a0for a discussion on Israel as an inherently colonial, and therefore anti-democratic, project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ilan Papp\u00e9 is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK, where he directs the European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-directs the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. Prior to coming to the UK, Papp\u00e9 was a historian and politician in Israel. He is the author of several books, including&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Ethnic-Cleansing-of-Palestine\/Ilan-Pappe\/9781851685554\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Studio Production: Cameron Granadino, Adam Coley<br>Post-Production: David Hebden<\/p>\n<cite>Full Report<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/israel-cannot-be-a-colonial-power-and-a-democracy\">Israel cannot be a colonial power and a democracy (therealnews.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY\u00a0CHRIS HEDGES Courtesy The Real News Network Israeli historian Ilan Papp\u00e9 reframes \u2018the only democracy in the Middle East\u2019 as a colonizing force that is inherently undemocratic due to its necessary subjugation of Palestinians. Israel\u2019s status as a bona fide democracy is often taken to be a self-evident truth, but a more critical look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}