Mona Chalabi Instagram – It’s awful that antisemitism is so prevalent and Zionism is so powerful that I need to state the obvious: of course Israeli citizens don’t deserve to die, no matter the policies of the government they live under. And I also refuse to characterize an attack that takes place within a context of apartheid as “unprovoked” or a “surprise”. There is a system of oppression used by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people that is designed to create suffering and suffocation, to rob people of their dignity and their rights. It is a system that has been in place for years and has been dialed up on a daily basis. If that isn’t a provocation I don’t know what is.