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Criticism of Israel’s policies towards Palestinians has always induced a defensive rage from its defenders and advocates. A Threshold Crossed, a report by Human Rights Watch, lit several fires of rage and disapproval.  Israel, according to the authors, is responsible for apartheid policies. The word, and the application of its meaning, is immemorially nasty.  This deeply though through policy of Afrikaans origin speaks to a hatred not merely of Black Africans but British imperialism and its carefree mixing of multiracial labour.  But apartheid has become an expression so singular it resi...

The Israeli separation wall around Jerusalem on March 8, 2020. (Photo: Muhammed Qarout Idkaidek/APA Images) On April 27, Human Rights Watch released the report “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.” 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 ...

T A Threshold Crossed, the 217-page Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, to abhor. The most vile and appalling accusation is that Israeli authorities are responsible for crimes of apartheid. This charge has been laid before in the hope that if it is repeated enough times it will stick. It is a misuse of the dictionary definition. Nor does Israel’s treatment of its Palestinian citizens and those in the ‘occupied’ territories meet the legal definition of ‘inhumanity’. By lumping together Israel’s substantial Arab minority within the 1967 borders, those living under Israeli military co...

Human Rights Watch crosses the line with latest attack on Israel The organization has now gone beyond anti-Semitism. (May 5, 2021 / JNS) Anti-Semitism may be the world’s oldest hatred but it’s still a long way from death’s door. What I find particularly distressing, if not surprising, is to see self-proclaimed human rights activists demonizing the world’s most frequently threatened Jewish community. I’m speaking, of course, about Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental—but not non-ideological—organization that has just published a 213-page report, “A Threshold Crossed,” decl...

The Human Rights Watch report is a valuable, sober, and deliberately uninflammatory piece of scholarship—which won’t make a damn bit of difference.