Left-wing Israeli writer Gideon Levy said in an article published by the Haaretz newspaper that a professor who arrived in Israel this week from the United States, where he has resided for decades and teaches at one of its prestigious universities, quickly decided to leave. the country.
He said the Israeli professor – whose name has not been revealed – was first born in an agricultural colony (kibbutz) in Israel and is the descendant of a family of educated aristocrats. , whose members participated in the 1948 war.
This was not his first visit to Israel on several occasions and he is still very attached to his roots, according to Levy.
“I want to leave”
As a sign of his attachment, he watches from his place of residence in the United States every evening to watch the news on one of the Israeli television channels.
Levy said that he and the university professor are of the same generation and from the same city, pointing out that the guest visited him at his home on his last day in Israel before his departure yesterday, Thursday.
He added that his friend told him, before parting, that he felt suffocated this time: “He really wanted to leave. He didn’t understand how it was possible to live in this country.”
During his contacts over the past year with university presidents in Israel, the man felt a radical change in terms of “moral corruption.”
The wife of his childhood friend, a former Supreme Court justice, told him this week that it was difficult for her to accept his opinions. She had never told him that; her husband was one of the liberal pillars of the Supreme Court, the article said.
genocide
Levy confirms that his friend, a university professor, is convinced that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip because he is familiar with the subject through his profession.
The left-wing writer claims – in his article – that there is no longer any doubt that Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing in the northern Gaza Strip. He announces it and his actions are clear proof of it.
He said his visiting friend is convinced that when the International Court of Justice decides whether Israel committed genocide, it will focus on the northern Gaza Strip, as it did in Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. .
A plague of blindness
He added that it is impossible in Israel to declare that what is happening in Gaza is a genocide, just as it is difficult to declare it publicly in prestigious universities in the United States, whose donors are Jewish.
Levy said: “My visitor discovered that even his dearest friends among Israeli liberals, intellectuals and people of peace and conscience are not ready to accept him. Differences of opinion turned into hostility. This has never happened before.
According to him, Israel is immersed in its tragedy and catastrophe and has become completely blind, and no one is paying attention to the “much more terrifying” disaster in Gaza.