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There are many problems with Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) contention that “In certain areas” of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, Israel’s “deprivations” against the Palestinians “are so severe that they amount to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.” “Apartheid” is a fraught word, and using the term interferes with the cause of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. That was the argument made in a Newsweek op-ed by two longtime American diplomats: Daniel Kurtzer, a former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel; and A...

The thoroughly researched and documented report does not make the claim that Israel is an “apartheid state.” Rather, Human Rights Watch evaluated Israeli conduct against international law, specifically the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (aka the Apartheid Convention) and the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The organization found that based on both, Israel “[intends] to maintain a system of domination by one racial group over another; systematic oppression by one racial group over another; and one or more i...

The Heath ponds have now reopened for swimmers once more to enjoy, that is true, and they have always been a happy place where everyone could turn up casually and enjoy a day of pleasure.  They were formally established by parliament, an elected body, as a free facility for everyone’s benefit but Margaret Thatcher removed this and gave them instead to the City of London Corporation, a big money concern that has no such credential and which does not serve the interests of users.  Entry had always in the past traditionally been free but it now has imposed a £4 entry fee for a limited time-...

Human Rights Watch report attacks foundations of Israel, says NGO Monitor Israel’s Minister for Strategic Affairs Michael Biton at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 29, 2019. Picture by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90. Israel’s Minister for Strategic Affairs Michael Biton said “the distorted reality presented by Human Rights Watch is part of its ongoing political and obsessive campaign against Israel in recent years.” By JNS The Israeli government and watchdog group NGO Monitor criticized a forthcoming report from Human Rights Watch that accuses Israel of apartheid and calls for an ...

In solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people on the occasion of Al-Quds Day May 7, 2021 This year the International human rights organization, Human Rights Watch (HRW), released a report titled ‘A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.’ The report catalogues a long chain of abuses and a systematic Israeli government policy directed at breaking the Palestinian people and eliminating any challenge to Israel’s ironclad dominance not only over the territories it forcibly occupies but also over the entire region. In pursuit of this go...