Empty Invitation
A banner ad from the Haaretz website, as viewed by Palestinians in the West Bank, who can’t even go to Tel Aviv, much less live there.
White City, Indeed.
Entrepreneurial Racism
Ashoka describes itself as a “global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs.” Seems like the perfect opportunity for the best and the brightest to transcend occupation and apartheid in Israel/Palestine.
Yet the way they have arranged their regional offices is a solid contribution to the normalization of the Israeli Occupation. Note the little orange spot that is the West Bank, while “Israel proper” is light blue:
Shouldn’t Israel be included in this map? What about that worn-out (and laughable) soundbite that declares Israel as “the only democracy in the Middle East”?
Ah, yes: Israel was recently added to Ashoka Europe:
In this case, Israel-as-part-of-Europe is just a sanitized way of saying “not Arab.”
Further evidence that Ashoka is making a racial distinction: MENA (Middle East North Africa) has recently been re-branded Ashoka Arab World.
