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The writer is Co-Editor, Jadaliyya, www.jadaliyya.com, an independent ezine produced by the Arab Studies Institute based in Washington DC/Beirut Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution, Human Rights Watch said in a report released April 27. The finding is based on an overarching Israeli government policy to maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians and grave abuses committed against Palestinians living in the occupied territory, including East Jerusalem. Credit: Human Rights Watch (HRW) THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Apr 30 2021 ...

April 30, 2021 By Craig MURRAY The forthright branding of Israel as an apartheid state by Human Rights Watch could be a watershed moment in mainstream acceptance of what Israel has become. Human Rights Watch is not an outlier or left wing organisation. It is very much a part of the establishment in the United States and is not generally associated with hard hitting criticism that conflicts with the promoted interests of the American state. Kenneth Roth, the Human Rights Watch CEO who has been in power longer than Putin, is a darling of the New York liberal and Democratic Party Establishment...

About 6.8-million Jewish Israelis and 6.8-million Palestinians live today between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River, an area encompassing Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the latter made up of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Throughout most of this area, Israel is the sole governing power; in the remainder, it exercises primary authority alongside limited Palestinian self-rule.

Credit: The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) UNITED NATIONS, Apr 30 2021 (IPS) - When the UN’s Beirut-based Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), released a landmark 2017 report on “apartheid” in Israel, the United Nations disassociated itself with the study and left it to die— unceremoniously and unsung. According to a March 2017 report in Foreign Policy Journal, both the Israeli and the Trump administrations put “enormous pressure on UN Secretary-General António Guterres to withdraw the report”. But the head of the E...

'Canceling' Human Rights | Opinion On 4/30/21 at 6:00 AM EDT For those who have been paying attention, the recent development of Human Rights Watch (HRW) attempting to "cancel" Israel as an "apartheid state" is not at all surprising. It is merely another manifestation of the war waged on the nation-state of the Jewish people—an ancestral homeland to which an indigenous people returned after millennia of exile and persecution, itself a direct result of statelessness. It is a war of words, to which international law, human rights and their institutions have been summoned and ...