Biden Must Face the Facts: Israel Is an Apartheid Regime The leading human rights organization B’Tselem has now joined others in making that claim one that will be difficult for the Biden administration to ignore or dismiss.
By Mitchell Plitnick
January 22, 2021
Information Clearing House - In a position paper released January 12, the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem broke with its own tradition and stated unambiguously that the area comprising Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip is an apartheid regime of Jewish supremacy.
The significance of this paper cannot be overstated. B’Tselem’s status as a leading human
The leading human rights organization B’Tselem has now joined others in making that claim one that will be difficult for the Biden administration to ignore or dismiss.
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The Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) and the Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC) and the Palestinian National Institute for NGOs (PNIN) are concerned that since commencing the roll out of a vaccine against COVID-19 in December 2020,
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Israeli occupying authorities have implemented its vaccine policy in a discriminatory, unlawful, and racist manner by completely disregarding its obligations to Palestinian healthcare. Throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), apart from East Jerusalem, Israeli occupying authorities have reserved access to the vaccine to the unlawfully transferred in settler population of Jewish Israelis in illegal settlements, and denied the vaccine to the Palestinian population. According to data collected by the University of Oxford, around 1.99 million Israelis, Palestinian citizens of Israel, and Palestinian from occupied East Jerusalem had been vaccinatedby 13 January 2021. According to the State of Palestin
Foreign protesters take part in during a protest against the Israeli apartheid “Apartheid on Trial”, and solidarity with the Palestinian people, in Berlin, Germany, on August 3, 2020. Photo by Manar Shahin. (c) APA Images.
Apartheid is too mild a concept for the way Israel deals with Palestinians under its control when they show any level of resistance. Three days ago, The Guardian published a daring admission by the director of B’Tselem, the largest human rights organization in Israel, of the Apartheid reality that runs throughout Israel and all of the Palestinian Territories that it occupies. It is the standard way Israel deals with Palestinians whether they are its citizens, its permanent residents as in the case of the East Jerusalem population, or subjects of its military occupation in Gaza and the West Bank.