Drop whatever you are doing and sit down to watch this afternoon’s talk by Palestinian lawmaker and Member of the Israeli Knesset Haneen Al Zoubi at the Jerusalem Fund in Washington, DC.

Al Zoubi described Israel’s racist treatment of its 1.7 million Palestinian citizens. It has two different legal systems—one for Jews and the other for Palestinians, with more than 50 laws on the books that make it legal to discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel.

“Israel has not just confiscated my land, my history and my identity,” Al Zoubi told her audience. “I’ve been given citizenship on condition that I lose myself. And I must thank [Israel] everyday for not expelling me…”

How many times do we hear that America should support Israel because it is the only democracy in the Middle East? Listen as Al Zoubi describes some of the laws passed recently by the Israeli government supported by American taxpayer dollars.

Spend the next hour or so listening to Al Zoubi’s impassioned words and get a glimpse of this too often forgotten side of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

You can watch Al Zoubi’s talk at the Jerusalem Fund in Washington, DC earlier today from wherever you are in the world: http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/sp/i/223/pid/223

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