Labor-Meretz Leader Yair Golan Accuses Israel of Killing Babies as a Hobby [View all]

Yair Golan, chairman of the Democrats party, a hybrid of the Labor and Meretz parties, on Tuesday morning told Reshet Bet radio that “Israel is on the path to becoming an apartheid state, like the South Africa of the past, unless it returns to being a rational, democratic nation.”

And then, in an effort to define what might be a rational, democratic nation, Golan explained: “A sane state does not wage war against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not set itself the goal of expelling a population.”

He added, “What’s happening is utterly shocking. It is inconceivable that we, the Jewish people—who have endured centuries of persecution, pogroms, and even genocide, and who have long stood as a symbol of moral responsibility both in human and Jewish terms—should now be the ones engaging in actions that are fundamentally unacceptable.”

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