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We’re trying to end American structural racism. Why are we supporting Israeli apartheid? On April 20, a Minnesota jury convicted former white Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin of killing African-American George Floyd. While far from dismantling systemic racism in the U.S., the verdict is a mini milestone for justice and incentive to press on. Paradoxically, as movement for American racial justice is fortified, the U.S. government continues to support the structural racism of another country, Israel, with billions of our tax dollars, thereby corrupting American values and violating interna...

While Human Rights Watch's conclusions carry a significant legal and potentially political weight, the report is hardly an isolated event....

© Muhammed Qarout Idkaidek/APA Images The Israeli separation wall around Jerusalem on March 8, 2020. On April 27, Human Rights Watch released the report ." In over 200 pages of rigorous research, the authors establish why, under the 1973 Convention against Apartheid and 1998 Rome Statute, the race-based order through which Israel governs the Jewish and Palestinian population between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River amounts to the crimes of apartheid and persecution. The report follows an by the Israeli human rights group B'tselem that Israel's regime of Jewish supremacy amounts to...

Israel Apartheid: The Big Black-and-White Lie Accusing Israel of racism and apartheid fails the anti-Semitic smell test. What is it about Jews and race? In the 1930s, Hitler and others on the racist right demonized European Jews for being racially inferior. Today, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and others on the anti-racist left demonize Israeli Jews for acting racially superior. But injecting “race” into discussions about Jews is perverse. It clarifies nothing — and inflames everything. Admittedly, Jews are confusing: not just members of a religious community, not solely members of a nation...

ONE afternoon back in 2002, I stood on the outskirts of a refugee camp that sat near the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. It was the end of…