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Germany has expressed its rejection of a recent report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) describing Israeli practices toward Palestinians as amounting to 'the crimes against humanity of apartheid and pers...
Following last week's publication of the report by Human Rights Watch MEMO interviewed the report's author, Omar Shakir, who is the Israel and Palestine director of the Washington based pre-eminent rights group. Shakir has a long history of covering human rights issues. Prior to his current role, he was a Bertha Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he focused on US counterterrorism policies, including legal representation of Guantanamo detainees. He also investigated human rights violations in Egypt, including the Rabaa massacre, one of the largest killings of protesters in ...
Injecting 'Apartheid' Into the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Will Make It Worse | Opinion Daniel Kurtzer and Aaron David Miller , former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel; former State Department Middle East analyst and negotiator On 5/4/21 at 1:40 PM EDT Last week, Human Rights Watch released a deeply-researched report entitled, "A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution." Unfortunately, far from helping resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the report is likely to push the two sides further away from an already elusive confl...
Final Call News FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2020 file photo, Palestinian laborers some wearing protective face masks amid concerns over the country's coronavirus outbreak, cross illegally into Israel from the West Bank through an opening in a fence, south of the West Bank town of Hebron. One of the world's best-known human rights groups says Israel is guilty of the international crimes of apartheid and persecution. Human Rights Watch cites discriminatory policies toward Palestinians within Israel's own borders and in the occupied territories. In so doing, the New York-based group joins a growing ...
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