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Human Rights Watch Report Accuses Israel of Apartheid The Media Line Staff 04/27/2021 Human Rights Watch, an international watchdog, in a report accused Israel of practicing apartheid against the Palestinians and against its own Arab citizens. The report issued on Tuesday is titled “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.” The organization reportedly will send the 213-page report to the International Criminal Court, which currently is investigating Israel for war crimes. The report cited as examples of apartheid by Israel its building Jewis...

Omar Shakir, a US citizen representing New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) in Israel and the Palestinian territories, stands next to Kenneth Roth, executive director of HRW, while speaking before departing Israel at Ben-Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Nov. 25, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad. Israeli senior government officials rebuffed claims by international rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW), which accused Israel of deploying “abusive policies” of “apartheid and persecution” against Palestinians and called for the imposition of sanctions and other legal act...

A most dangerous and mendacious report Opinion: The latest Human Rights Watch diatribe against Israel is one-sided and holds the country to a higher standard than the rest of the world; hardly surprising given that its author has spent years campaigning against Israel's right to exist Ben-Dror Yemini | Published: 04.27.21 , 12:44 Let us imagine for just one moment that an Iranian official penned a damning report on human rights in Sweden, or a member of the American far-right wrote about the Democratic Party in the U.S. Would anyone take such a document seriously? But we are expected to...

Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of committing crimes of apartheid Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of committing crimes of apartheid JERUSALEM, Tuesday, April 27, 2021 (WAFA) – An international leading human rights watchdog has accused the Israeli authorities of committing crimes of apartheid against Palestinians. The New York-based Human Rights Watch published a 213-page report on Tuesday titled “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution,” which examines Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. The finding in HRW’s report is based on an...

HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images Israeli security forces on a street during clashes with Palestinian youth in Hebron on April 25. HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images JERUSALEM – In what it calls its most comprehensive report to date on Israel's treatment of Palestinians, Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused Israel of committing "crimes against humanity" and said the U.S. and international community have "turned a blind eye." It advocated an international commission of inquiry and sanctions in...