4 Rabbi Myron Zuber, `Converting Inca Indians in Peru' http://www.ubalt.edu/kulanu/peru.html. The author points out that the white Jewish community had no problems with white Catholics in their school, but would not accept Indians.
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5 These contacts included the Lubivitcher Rabbi, Menachem M. Schneerson, the late leader of the messianic Lubivitcher sect which has an unenviable reputation both for its racism against non-Jews and its hardline opposition to the Oslo peace process in Israel.
7 Ian S. Lustick, `Israel as a non-Arab state: the political implications of mass immigration of non-Jews' , Middle East Journal (Vol. 53, no. 3, summer 1999), p. 423 .
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8 Emma Brockes, `The bulldozer', Guardian (7 November 2002).
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9 Steven Morris, `Jews in UK renounce right to live in Israel', Guardian (8 August 2002).
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10 The total world Jewish population is about 13 million, most of whom live in North America (6 million) and Israel (4.8 million). Other centres of Jewish population include France (0.5 million), UK (0.3 million), FSU (0.3 million) and Argentina (0.2 million).
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11 Figures extracted from `Immigrants by period of immigration, country of birth and last country of residence', Statistical Abstract of Israel 2002 (Central Bureau of Statistics, 2002).
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12 There has been an understandable unwillingness to calculate the exact number of Israelis resident in the US. The Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, Departure and Return of Residents from Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics shows a consistent pattern of emigration of Israelis from Israel. The above are the usual figures and quoted in, among others, Andrew I. Killgore, `Like it or not, demographics eventually will change Israel from a Jewish state into a democratic state', Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (June 2000), pp. 16, 86; and Sylvana Foa, `Escaping the hell of the Holy Land', Village Voice (13—19 February, 2002).
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13 Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: the weight of three thousand years ( London, Pluto Press 1994).
17 Since the start of the Al Aqsa intifada, the `demographic threat to Israel' has risen to prominence and has been the subject of several seminars and conferences. For an overview of the arguments presented, see Lili Galili, `A Jewish demographic state', Ha'aretz (28 June 2002). My thanks to Dr Shlonsky for bringing this to my attention.
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18 Lustick, op cit., pp. 417—33.
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19 See, for example, the cases fought for and documented by the Workers' Hotline, Kav La'Oved: www.kavlaoved.org.il
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20 Plans to deport 100,000 or 150,000 of them have been repeatedly mooted, only to come to nothing. The latest figure is 50,000 illegal migrants, which the government declared it intends to deport (International Jerusalem Post (9 August 2002)).
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21 John Quigley, Palestine and Israel: a challenge to justice ( Durham, NC, Duke University Press , 1990), p.156.
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22 For more information on the attempts to judaise Jerusalem and what this has meant for the Palestinian population, see the paper, `The demographic imperative' ( Jerusalem, Law-Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment , 2000).
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23 Noam Chomsky Deterring Democracy ( London, Verso , 1991), p. 434.
25 For example, see Professor Ruth Gavison's argument for the right of secular Jewish localities to keep their liberal characteristics by excluding non-secular inhabitants, such as Arabs, Ha'aretz (17 July 2002).
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26 Ina Friedman, `So happy to be here', Jerusalem Report (11 March 2002).
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27 For exact details, see `Government funding of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights in the 1990s, of local governments home construction, and road building ( Adva Center , January 2002).
29 Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White ( London, Routledge , 1995).
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30 According to a 2002 survey by the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 46 per cent of Israeli Jews supported the transfer of Palestinians from the occupied territories (Asher Arian, Israeli Public Opinion on National Security 2002 ( Tel Aviv, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies , July 2002), p. 29).
32 Justin Huggler, `One fifth of Palestinian children are chronically hungry', Independent (27 July, 2002).
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33 `Preliminary findings of the nutritional assessment and sentinel surveillance system for West Bank and Gaza' (5 August 2002); funded by the United States Agency for International Development http://www.usaid.gov/wbg/reports/Nutritional_Assessment.pdf.
