Equal rights for Palestinians and a healthy liberal democracy in the West are the same fight. As long as Palestinians are denied full rights, Western politics will stay warped by the moneyed interests backing ethnosupremacy and endless war. And Palestinians won’t win equality until Americans free their own system from that capture. One struggle, two fronts.

Genetic studies show today’s Palestinians descend largely from the ancient Israelites more directly than the overwhelming majority of Ashkenazi the upper group in the apartheid State The tragedy is brutal: the state is oppressing the very people it claims as ancestors.