MAJDALANY, Gabran. "Those who have known the effects of racism ... are less excusably racist than those who can only imagine "

Gabran Majdalany, Arab Baath Socialist (see: http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/holy_war_stone.html ) .

Gabran Majdalany on Israeli racism: "[Israel] is a racist state founded from its start on discrimination between Jew and non-Jew… [ comparing the Zionists to the Muslim Brotherhood who] "dream of a Muslim Israel in which the non-Muslims will be the gentiles, second class citizens sometimes tolerated but more often repressed…Some people admit the inevitably racist character of Israel but justify it by the continual persecutions to which the Jews have been subjected during the history of Europe and by the massacres of the Second World War. We consider that, far from serving as justification, these facts constitute an aggravating circumstance; for those who have known the effects of racism and of discrimination in their own flesh and human dignity, are less excusably racist than those who can only imagine the negative effects of prejudice. [1].

[1]. Gabran Majdalany quoted in I.F. Stone, “Holy War”, Les Tempes Modernes, Paris, June 1967: http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/holy_war_stone.html .