NGOs Demand Ethnicity Test Of West Bank Homebuilders To Weed Out Jews

“Jews are like cancer: you have to prevent the spread, or efforts to treat the existing tumor will prove fruitless.”

Alon Shevut, Etzion Bloc, February 1 – Organizations that insist they work to advance human rights and combat bigotry put forth a plan this week to prevent Jews from constructing homes in areas Israel captured from Jordanian occupation in 1967, a move they contend will achieve positive outcomes.

Amnesty International, Btselem, Human Rights Watch, and several other groups that monitor Israeli activity in those areas issued a demand Sunday to subject all would-be homeowners outside Israel’s 1949 armistice lines to a test of ethnic affiliation, and only those without Jewish ethnicity would then obtain permission to move forward with construction. Such a test, the organizations explained, will go along way toward curtailing the heinous phenomenon of Jews building homes in their ancestral heartland.

“Everyone knows the heart of the conflict, the source of human rights abuses, is Jews living where Jews began,” observed Human Rights Watch director Ken Roth. “The only way to resolve the situation once and for all is to put a stop to this troubling phenomenon. An important step in that regard is to keep future instances of it from taking place. This proposal, though its details might need some refinement, represents the right approach to containing, and then perhaps eliminating, the mother of all human rights atrocities.”

“Obviously there would be more to do, because existing Jewish homes aren’t addressed under this plan,” acknowledged Btselem spokesman Pia Tabaat. “Not to get all antisemitic, but Jews are like cancer: you have to prevent the spread, or efforts to treat the existing tumor will prove fruitless. But as our allies in the BDS movement explain their singular focus on Israel, when countless regimes perpetrate worse violations all the time, you have to start somewhere.”

The organizations provided only vague answers to the question of who or what body will conduct the ethnicity tests, or what such a process would entail. Amnesty International representative Jacob Burns indicated that informal discussions among the various NGOs have covered the issue in a cursory fashion, and that all agreed they must play a key role in judging each case. “Fortunately, we have precedent from the 1930’s in Germany when it comes to deciding what ‘race’ a person belongs to, Jewish or Aryan,” he noted. “Those tests, conveniently, also helped determine where a person was allowed to live, whether he could engage in certain professions, and other questions that provide a useful basis for this situation as well. It should be relatively simple to adapt those criteria for these purposes.”

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