Israel has issued regulations on opening up society, largely on the basis of a “green passport”, a system by which those who have been inoculated may enter hotels, swimming pools, synagogues, concert halls, and other public places. Those without the green passport can’t enter. This is a huge ethical issue.

At a time when network news is celebrating Israeli vaccination rates, SNL’s Michael Che isn’t buying. “Israel… vaccinated half their population. I’m going to guess it’s the Jewish half.”

A short video taken by a family as they picnicked in the West Bank this month may be the best field guide yet to Israel’s complex apartheid system of state-sponsored Jewish supremacy.

Several recent findings that Israel is an apartheid state reflect a mounting international recognition. But the indifference to them in the U.S. is also in a long tradition: ignoring apartheid pronouncements about Israel in the U.S. To accept the finding would create a crisis in the Democratic Party and require support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, and the Israel lobby including its liberal branch insists that BDS is antisemitic.

Liberal Zionists can relax. With the apartheid designation by a leading Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem, still a secret to most Americans, groups like J Street don’t have to explain why they still oppose the nonviolent global campaign for Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS).

François Dubuisson writes that the ICC decision to investigate war crimes in Palestine has huge symbolic significance and will likely lead the court to consider the crime of apartheid, given recent reports.

If Palestinian anti-apartheid activist Issa Amro was one of the Russian or Chinese human rights defenders being accused of bogus charges and unfairly convicted by a military court, we would have certainly heard his name on the Senate floor or during a White House press briefing, says Jamil Dakwar.

An Israeli military court could send anti-apartheid activist Issa Amro to jail next week for among other absurd charges using the word “stupid” with an Israeli soldier. An international campaign to stop Amro’s sentencing now includes the Canadian mission to Ramallah, novelist Raja Shehadeh and the liberal Zionist org J Street.

To further pressure on Israel to end its 72 years of injustice and oppression, Global Kairos for Justice has launched an online BDS ToolKit “Resisting Apartheid & Racism.”

Israel’s leading human rights organization accusing the country of “apartheid” shows in the eyes of many Israelis, the government no longer possesses democratic ideals.