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Government welcomes HRW report on Israeli “crimes of apartheid” against Palestinians Government welcomes HRW report on Israeli “crimes of apartheid” against Palestinians RAMALLAH, Tuesday, April 27, 2021 (WAFA) – The Palestinian government today welcomed the Human Rights Watch report urging the International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli officials “implicated in the crimes against humanity of apartheid or persecution”. “The Palestinian government welcomes the new report by Human Rights Watch, titled "A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW), one of the global leaders in documenting and combating human rights abuses around the world, released a report on Tuesday accusing Israel of the crime of apartheid.  The 213-page report, entitled “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution,” found that Israel is responsible for committing “crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution” in the entire territory under its control, from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean Sea.  Echoing the findings of leading Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, which release...

Bethlehem/PNN/ The Presidency today welcomed the Human Rights Watch report urging the International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli officials “implicated in the crimes against humanity of apartheid or persecution”. Presidential Spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh welcomed in a press release the HRW report as “a powerful testament to the struggle of the people of Palestine under Israel’s belligerent military occupation and its colonial and oppressive policies.” He added that “this well-documented and solid report reaffirms Israel’s commitment to the crimes of Apartheid and persecu...

Human Rights Watch could do with a new pair of glasses. The organization’s new report, “A Threshold Crossed — Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution,” is blind to fact and reality. Every paragraph in the 223-page diatribe serves one goal: brand Israel as an apartheid state. I left South Africa as a teenager in 1965 because of its policy of apartheid. I have openly and consistently criticized Israel’s settlement policies. And I am on the left of the Israeli political spectrum. To me, this document cheapens and derides both the word “apartheid” and its leg...

The wall inside the West Bank A leading American human rights group will declare this week that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid, according to a rightwing pro-Israel publication. The apartheid finding by Human Rights Watch has been rumored for weeks, including on our site. Yesterday Algemeiner said that the report will be published tomorrow and is titled, “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.” The report is said to support the International Criminal Court investigation of Israel and to call for global sanctions against s...