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Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of Apartheid, Crimes Against Humanity Uri Cohen 04/27/2021 Report says Israel's government and military have oppressed both Palestinians and Arab Israelis living within the 1967 borders Human Rights Watch, a prominent New York-based NGO monitoring global human rights violations, published its latest report on Tuesday, accusing the Israeli government of perpetrating apartheid and crimes against humanity against Palestinians and Israeli Arabs. The findings, which were predictably welcomed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and vehemently reject...

Human Rights Watch could do with a new pair of glasses. The organization’s new report, “A Threshold Crossed — Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution,” is blind to fact and reality. Every paragraph in the 223-page diatribe serves one goal: brand Israel as an apartheid state. I left South Africa as a teenager in 1965 because of its policy of apartheid. I have openly and consistently criticized Israel’s settlement policies. And I am on the left of the Israeli political spectrum. To me, this document cheapens and derides both the word “apartheid” and its leg...

Santa Barbara rally backs Medicare For All, California health care bill SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - A group of more than 30 people gathered outside the Santa Barbara County Courthouse on Saturday to show support for the Medicare for All movement and AB-1400, a bill in the California legislature that would introduce a single-payer healthcare system across the state in order to cover all Californians. The activists carried signs and argue that the current for-profit health care system is broken and unequal and that too many people are unable to afford the care they need. They also point to other d...

ABC Religion & Ethics Gerald Steinberg Updated Fri 16 Apr 2021, 11:31pm Human rights NGOs — like Amnesty International — have an important role to play, but in order to be effective, their lost credibility needs to be restored. (Alain Pitton / NurPhoto via Getty Images) Share Image: There was a time when the reports and campaigns run by influential organisations promoting human rights bore the promise — or at least, the hope — of making the world a better place. At the height of the Cold War, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International were founded by altruists motivated by un...

The clinics, being hosted in partnership with the Sacramento Fire Department, will be Friday, March 19, and Friday, March 26, both at 7:30 p.m. at the Delany Center Parking Lot.