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Here's What Happened When a 'Palestinian Activist' Was Asked Basic Questions About Israel

Yoseph Haddad is a one-man army taking down false narratives about Israel. Haddad is an Arab-Israeli who has taken a hatchet to lies about Israelis being colonizers and a so-called apartheid state. He noted how Jews have been part of the Holy Land’s history. Does that mean he’s blind to the problems in Israel regarding racism and discrimination? No, but it’s hard to have that conversation when brainwashing is pervasive, especially on college campuses. 

Bill Maher torched elite colleges for being meccas of illiberal thought and outright lunacy. It’s also the petri dish from which antisemitism and hatred of Israel flow like the Jordan River. It’s not an American problem, either. Haddad went to the University of Auckland, where he tried to join a Palestinian Club and found a member who was egregiously ignorant of the issues. 

It's not a nasty exchange, but Haddad asks basic questions that this student couldn’t answer. The female student also said she felt Israel was an apartheid state, which Haddad dismantled in less than 30 seconds. There isn’t a separate busing system for Arabs in Israel; they can vote, and Haddad could be elected president. He also mentioned retired Supreme Court judge Salim Joubran, an Arab-Israeli, who was part of the bloc that sent former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to jail on corruption charges in 2015. That cannot happen in a true apartheid state. 

The student highlighted the checkpoints and different license plates used between Israelis and Palestinians. Haddad dispatched these weak points quickly, shredding the checkpoint narrative since every country has them on its borders. Israel does not control Gaza. Haddad also noted that Egypt closed its border with Gaza due to terrorism concerns. 

The clip lasts less than five minutes but wrecks every anti-Israel narrative peddled by the far Left. Oh, and this student has never been to Israel, but that's a given.