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Sunday, February 6th, 2022

Amnesty International, joining other human rights groups, says Israel is ‘committing the crime of apartheid’

Author:     Miriam Berger
Source:     The Washington Post
Publication Date:     February 1, 2022 at 6:18 p.m. EST
 Link: Amnesty International, joining other human rights groups, says Israel is ‘committing the crime of apartheid’
Stephan:   This has always been my problem with Israel. The Jews who created Israel came out of the Holocaust after centuries of being consigned to live in walled off ghettos, blocked from higher education, often unable to own land. And yet as soon as they were given a country the strategy they chose to pursue was to recreate the same conditions again for the Palestinians. Who are responding exactly as one would expect.
Palestinians climb over the separation barrier with Israel at al-Ram on their way to pray in Jerusalem during Ramadan in 2014. Credit: Majdi Mohammed/AP

Amnesty International accused Israel of “committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians” in a report released Tuesday, echoing a growing consensus among leading human rights groups and drawing a fierce rebuke from Israel’s government, which lambasted the finding and called for its withdrawal after lobbying to block its release.

London-based Amnesty International said Israel’s “system of oppression and domination against the Palestinian people,” both in the occupied Palestinian territories and within its internationally recognized borders, fit the legal definition of apartheid and constituted “a crime against humanity.”

Israel is committing the crime of apartheid, new report says

“Whether they live in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, or Israel itself, Palestinians are treated as an inferior racial group and systematically deprived of their rights,” Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said in a statement.

Citing Israel’s “policies of segregation, dispossession and exclusion” toward Palestinians, Callamard said that […]

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