A leading American human rights group will declare this week that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid, according to a rightwing pro-Israel publication.
The apartheid finding by Human Rights Watch has been rumored for weeks, including on our site. Yesterday Algemeiner said that the report will be published tomorrow and is titled, “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.”
The report is said to support the International Criminal Court investigation of Israel and to call for global sanctions against some Israeli actions that serve apartheid.
The Human Rights Watch report appears to be part of a trend in which mainstream organizations come out for an end to Israeli impunity. In January the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said that Israel maintains an “apartheid… regime of Jewish supremacy” from the river to the sea. Then last week the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace called on the U.S. government to begin pressuring Israel to guarantee equal rights to Palestinians under its rule.
The article in Algemeiner says that the Human Rights Watch report on apartheid identifies several “racist” Israeli policies that have “demographic goals,” aimed at increasing the number of Jews in lands controlled by Israel and reducing the number of Palestinians. One such policy is Israeli law that discriminates against Palestinians from the occupied territories who establish residency inside Israel. The laws, HRW says per the article, exploit “security as a justification to advance demographic objectives” and “many of these abuses … have no legitimate security justifications.”
HRW seeks an end to Israeli impunity, according to Algemeiner:
The publication then states that the International Criminal Court (ICC) should “investigate and prosecute individuals credibly implicated in the crimes against humanity of apartheid or persecution.”
It also recommends sanctions on Israel and Israeli citizens and conditions on arms sales, pushes for “due diligence” in regard to trading with Israel, advocates another in a long list of United Nations investigations into Israel as well as “the role of other actors, including companies and officials of other states,” and says that “businesses active in Israel … directly contribute to the crimes of apartheid and persecution.”
Last week Daniel Levy, president of the U.S./Middle East Project, said on a Carnegie webinar that the apartheid accusation had been leveled by “blue chip human rights organizations in Palestine and Israel… and the global human rights organizations are apparently not far behind.”
On Saturday Zaha Hassan of the Carnegie Endowment, three times used the term “apartheid” to refer to Israeli governance in a webinar by the Washington Report for Middle East Affairs. Hassan said that as the peace process has collapsed and failed to deliver, there is growing impatience even among Washington insiders over Israel’s intransigent conduct. Also yesterday the Forward newspaper promoted an interview this week about a “blockbuster Human Rights Watch” report.
The B’Tselem finding of apartheid in January got little response in the U.S. Our leading papers ignored it, and liberal Zionist groups all but dismissed it. The Human Rights Watch report may be different, given HRW’s global status. Algemeiner says that the Israel lobby group NGO Watch is gearing up to attack the report.
We’ll get you a full account of the HRW report when it comes out.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210426-israels-use-of-solitary-confinement-is-inhumane-and-breaches-international-conventions/
“Israel’s use of solitary confinement is inhumane and breaches international conventions…”
It’s not like the Palestinians have input into how the Israeli justice system works, it’s apartheid.
How many hot shots have now referred to Israel as an “apartheid” nation? Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Tutu, Carter (not as direct) many Palestinian leaders. Now we have several well respected human rights organizations categorizing Israel as an apartheid state. Finally.
8:45 April 26th Morning Joe. This morning Cornell West was just on MJ during a discussion about Howard University reducing the focus on the “Classics” at Howard. He talked about the recent loss of his mother. Joe Scarborough asked again about his mother’s passing. During Cornell’s loving tribute to his mom, he talked about love, and then threw in a comment about a “Palestinian Jesus.” Going to listen again to hear just how he presented this. If that is what he said, you know there will be a bit of a storm.
Cornell could not walk away without challenging the public. So love him for challenging.
All anyone has to do is look at the famous “shrinking map of Palestine” to realize what these organizations are now stating is absolutely right. While the world simply watched, the Palestinians have been cheated, and robbed off their lands and resources, and while the US, the UK, and the EU, kept pretending they did not approve, they were openly supporting them by sending them billions of dollars, weapons (that kill unarmed Palestinians), and supported the criminals at the UN.
They were the enablers, and they made this evil monster.
It seems we cannot get out of the clutches of the zionists, and have to expect that this is the status quo. Our members of Congress, the (zionist) Media, and the vindictive Israeli lobbies, have put us into this deep hole. They keep putting Israel above the best interests of their own country.
Between the growing number of reports by respected, mainstream human rights organizations, and a growing number of voices within our country and internationally, that are speaking out against the blatant apartheid policies and practices of the state of Israel, it feels as though the dam is about to break. When it does, hopefully sooner than later, Zionism could be very quick to fall, much as the apartheid system in South Africa disintegrated once a critical mass of people and organizations felt emboldened enough to stand up and condemn it.
Phil and Mondo team…do you know anything about any of the charities, individuals or groups who are pushing back against the “California Donor Disclosure Law” case “Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rodriquez Thomas More Law Center v. Rodrquez” that the U.S. Supreme Court started hearing today?
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-251/169507/20210222113359763_19-251ts.pdf
Sotomayor just brought up how many individuals like to publicly beat their chest about which charities they donate to.
Who is pushing back against the “California Donor Disclosure Law?”
Oral Arguments started today
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-251/169507/20210222113359763_19-251ts.pdf