Every day, every hour, pretty much each living moment, Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied Palestine are subject to and endure egregious and immoral impositions on their lives that none of Israel’s supporters would countenance for even ten minutes.
The Israeli settler attack on Hafez Huraini resonates with stories of human rights abuses throughout history.
If there was any doubt as to the extent Israeli apartheid infiltrated the most personal and intimate aspects of the lives of Palestinians then those doubts ought to be banished by a story this week.
It’s been almost one month since Israel’s last war in Gaza, euphemistically called “Operation Breaking Dawn,”ended. It bears repeating that 49 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes during that three-day assault. Seventeen of those killed by American-made and supplied weapons were children.
There is no type of advocacy for Palestine that Israel can tolerate. And as long as Israel won’t tolerate it, the United States is more than happy to go along, because anti-Palestinianism is as American as apple pie.
This week Israel did the unconscionable and shut down the offices of seven Palestinian human rights groups that are doing valiant work in the occupied territory. People ask why Israel would do such a thing, and the simple answer is Zionism.