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In the report published on Tuesday, Human Rights Watch said that it investigated three Israeli strikes that killed 62 Palestinian civilians “where there were no evident military targets in the vicinity,” in some cases, killing entire families in one airstrike.
Axios reports Israel has formed a special task force designed to “create long-term pressure on Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s by consumers, politicians, and in the press and social media.” The initial efforts of that campaign appear to have already started.
Christians have a role in the struggle for justice and human rights in Palestine and Israel. This includes combating the destructive effects of the Zionist project of settler-colonialism.
Many Israeli government ministries have no services in Arabic. Most museums provide no information in Arabic; and the Palestinian Arab society in Israel has no museum or cinema that does programming in Arabic. While Israel’s international airport only lately provided signs in Arabic, after holding out for years.
The Palestinian people have not only been fragmented by Israel, but also by its own corrupted leadership. It is up to grassroots activists and intellectuals to correct the capitulation of the Oslo elite.
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More than 1000 academics, artists and intellectuals have signed a “Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine.” There used to be a mainstream prohibition on the word apartheid. In 2021, that logjam has broken. The world’s civil societies have had enough. Across countries and continents, across age groups and ethnicities, the marches, the manifestos, the opeds, the motions passed overwhelmingly have swelled into a torrent.
Shalev Hulio, the Israeli spyware-maker who is at the center of an international controversy, says the BDS campaign pushed the investigation of his company, and Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop selling in occupied territory. Hulio is right that a new era of accountability has begun for Israel.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is leading a charge to end the tax-exempt status of organizations in the United States that help fund Israel’s illegal settlements.