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Farewell Uri Avnery (1923-2018), Israeli humanist who demonstrated that there is no such thing as an Arab-Israeli conflict – just a constant struggle against racism, colonialism & misanthropy

Summary:
Humanism is poorer this week. Uri Avnery has died. Soldier number 44410 of the Israel army, spent the following decades defending human decency in the land that he loved and struggled to make a welcoming home for Jews and Arabs alike. From his 1953 report of the raid on Qibya in Jordan, where an Israeli unit commanded by Ariel Sharon destroyed the village, blowing up forty five, to his recent article on the killings of demonstrators in Gaza and his brave description of the recently passed Israeli national identity law as “clearly semi-fascist”, Uri Avnery’s life is a vivid demonstration that there is no such thing as an Arab-Israeli conflict – just a constant struggle against racism, colonialism & misanthropy.

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