Aug
20
“Scum, traitor, mentally unstable”
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He has been called a “traitor”, ‘scum” and “mentally unstable” by his fellow Israelis. Uri Davis is the first person of Jewish origin to be elected to the Revolutionary Council of the Palestinian Fatah movement. He calls himself an “anti-Zionist”and has tapped into a deep well of Israeli resentment. There have even been calls for him to be deported.
Uri Davis was elected to the Revolutionary Council in 31st place from a field of 600 – testimony, he says, to the open and liberal nature of the Fatah movement, describing it as:
“A non-ethnic movement where membership depends on agreement with the political programme, regardless of linguistic background, confessional background, citizenship background or any other distinction”. Read more