For those who don’t know Ilan Pappé, he’s a Jewish Israeli and has written one of best books I have read on the hisory of Palestine from 1947, “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”. The text below is translated from French and is abbreviated from the original. The original article is here.
Lesson number one: White refugees are welcome, others less so
The EU’s unprecedented collective decision to open its borders to Ukrainian refugees, followed by a more reserved policy by Britain, cannot go unnoticed compared to the closure of most European doors to refugees from the Arab world and Africa since 2015.
The obvious racist hierarchy, distinguishing those who seek to save their lives on the basis of color, religion and ethnicity is abhorrent, but this is unlikely to change anytime soon. Some European leaders are not even ashamed to publicly display their racism, such as Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov does.
Lesson number two: You have the right to invade Iraq, but not Ukraine
The Western media’s refusal to place Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine in the context of a broader – and obvious – analysis of how the rules of the international game changed in 2003 is quite disconcerting.
It is difficult to find an analysis that highlights the fact that the United States and Britain violated international law relating to state sovereignty when their armies, along with a coalition of Western countries, invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.
The occupation of an entire country for political purposes was not invented during this century by Vladimir Putin; it was introduced as a political tool justified by the West
Lesson number three: Neo-Nazism can sometimes be tolerated
No analysis highlights some of Putin’s arguments to consider regarding Ukraine, which in no way justify the invasion, but which require our attention even during it. Until the current crisis, Western media considered quite progressive, such as The Nation, The Guardian [ 
], the Washington Post, etc., warned us about the growing power of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine, which could have an impact on the future of Europe and beyond. These same media now reject the importance of neo-Nazism in Ukraine.
Lesson number four: Hitting skyscrapers is a war crime only if it happens in Europe
The Ukrainian establishment not only has a connection to these neo-Nazi groups and militias, it is also pro-Israel in a number of very disturbing ways. One of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s first decisions was to withdraw Ukraine from the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. The only international tribunal that ensures that the Nakba is not denied or forgotten.