Quoting Rami Younis: "Zionism is Racism"

#Zionism is racism because it systematically displaced Palestinians from urban centers and erased their existence through historical distortions, as exemplified in his movie Lod.

Younis states: "What the Zionist movement did was simply to empty out the Palestinian cities, because urbanization and colonization don't go well together."

Younis challenges the Zionist narrative that "Jews came to this land to make the wilderness bloom," asking rhetorically "What wilderness? My grandmother was a wilderness? What is that nonsense?" He argues this deliberate erasure continues today, pointing to how "apart from the Arab world and a few bleeding-heart left-wingers – no one actually acknowledges what happened to us."

Younis connects this historical denial to ongoing discrimination, noting that as Palestinians who are Israeli citizens, "because of the occupation, because we're Arabs in Israel, we don't have the possibilities the Jewish public has. That's a type of built-in violence."

[...] "At the beginning of the war, it was literally like taking your life in your hands to screen a film like that in Israel, so we censored ourselves simply out of fear of our personal safety," Younis says in a video interview conducted earlier this month from a hotel room in Massachusetts. "After all, we're living in a country where Ben-Gvir is the minister of internal security, so we just waited and waited until it was impossible to wait any longer.

Younis' vision of an alternative, as presented in his film, imagines "a situation in which #Palestine exists as a state, but has Jews among its population as well, and everyone lives happily as equals between the river and the sea."

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-23/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/i-would-like-for-israelis-to-understand-that-zionism-is-racism/00000193-5209-d26b-a1ff-572dd7e10000 or https://archive.ph/TrLCZ

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