Dismantling apartheid, from the river to the sea
Those who continue to shield Israel from accountability and treat it as a normal functioning democracy are on the wrong side of history, writes Palestine Solidarity Campaign director BEN JAMAL
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THIS week Amnesty International became the latest major human rights body to affirm what Palestinians have been saying for decades: that Israel’s system of oppression over them is apartheid, a crime against humanity under international law.
Amnesty describes it starkly. “Whether they live in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank or Israel itself, Palestinians are treated as an inferior racial group and systematically deprived of their rights.”
The evidence is overwhelming and the necessary consequences of committing this crime against humanity are already written in law.
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