Amnesty International calls Israel’s actions against Palestinians apartheid

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Feb 1, 2022: Amnesty International has joined other leading human rights groups, saying Israel’s “system of oppression and domination” of the Palestinians amounts to an international definition of apartheid.

Amnesty International called on “the USA, the European Union and its member states and the UK, but also those states that are in the process of strengthening their ties – such as some Arab and African states [to] recognise that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid and other international crimes”.

The report called on countries to “use all political and diplomatic means to ensure that the Israeli authorities implement the report’s recommendations and to review any cooperation and activities with Israel. To ensure that they do not play a role in perpetuating the apartheid system. “

Amnesty International said that Israel was carrying out “the crime of apartheid against Palestinians” and must be held accountable for treating them as “an inferior racial group”. Amnesty International’s 280-page report highlights how Israeli authorities execute a system of intimidation and domination against the Palestinians.

Its diverse investigation documents a range of Israeli atrocities, including extensive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, administrative detention, and the denial of nationality and citizenship.

The report immediately sparked outrage among Israeli politicians who demanded its withdrawal. Among them was Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who dismissed the report as “divorced from reality”: “Amnesty refers to lies spread by terrorist organizations.”

Lapid also accused Amnesty of antisemitism. “I hate to use the argument that if Israel were not a Jewish state, nobody in Amnesty would dare argue against it, but in this case, there is no other possibility,” Lapid said.

The Palestinian Authority on the other hand welcomed the report saying, “The state of Palestine welcomes the report by Amnesty International on Israel’s apartheid regime and racist policies and practices against the Palestinian people,” the authority’s foreign affairs ministry statement read.

Agnes Callamard the secretary general of Amnesty said; “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, Israel’s cruel policies of segregation, dispossession and exclusion across all territories under its control clearly amount to apartheid.”

The New York-based Human Rights Watch became the first major human rights group to publicly level accusations of apartheid in April last year, part of a growing international movement to redefine the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a struggle for equal rights rather than a territorial dispute.

These efforts have intensified since the peace process stalled, as Israel consolidated its hold on the occupied territories and emphasized the idea of ​​a Palestinian state. Israel denies any allegations of apartheid and insists that its own Arab citizens have equal rights.

For their part, those living in Hamas-ruled Gaza – from which Israel withdrew in 2005 while keeping tight control of land and the maritime border – face a crippling Israeli and Egyptian blockade.

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