Reply #17: His message is not so much "anti-Israel" as this article

[Tom Joad]

puts it. It is anti-zionist. It is pro-democracy. Zionism is an ideology that forced out over 700,000 Palestinians in 1948, completey ethnically-cleansed over 500 villages, and continues with that job of making Israel a "Jewish State". This ethnic cleansing continues today in many forms. It is also expressed in making the Palestinians marginal, without human or national rights.

There must come a time when Israel chooses to be a democratic state rather than a state for Jewish people. A democracy must be a place for all its inhabitants.

Yes, i know some Arabs can vote in Israel (not all, including those on the west bank but on the Israeli side of the Wall, and those in Jerusalem). Democracy is more than voting, however. It includes equal rights to the land, and other resources. On this the Jewish state fails misarably.

Bishara is no more "extremist" than Nelson Mandela.
Mandela could have been released decades earlier if he accepted Bantustans in South Africa. This is what Israel is offering Palestians, on their own homeland.

We must accept nothing less than a democracy for all. We must also demand that all who have rightful claim to the land, including those forced out in 1948, are allowed to exercise their right to return to their homeland.

Americans must demand their government cease supporting this unjust system. Only then can we expect peace.