Amnesty International is the latest human rights organisation to declare Israel guilty of the crime of apartheid. The human rights group joins Human Rights Watch, Yesh Din and B’Tselem in reaching the same conclusion over the last two years.
Amnesty’s 280-page report concludes that “Israel has imposed a system of oppression and domination over Palestinians wherever it exercises control” through “laws, policies and practices” that collectively constitute “the international wrong of apartheid”.
“Indeed, for over seven decades, the international community has stood by as Israel has been given free rein to dispossess, segregate, control, oppress and dominate Palestinians,” Amnesty stated.
Israel is using four strategies to subordinate Palestinians, the report argues.
First, it separates Palestinians from each other in distinct territorial, legal and administrative areas. Palestinians in the West bank live under Israeli military law, while those in Gaza live under siege. In East Jerusalem, Palestinians have residency status but are denied citizenship. In Israel, Palestinians have formal citizenship but are subject to a raft of discriminatory laws.
Second, Israel is dispossessing Palestinians through land and property seizures, home demolitions and forced evictions. Its efforts to drive out Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah, in East Jerusalem, is just one example.
Third, Israel maintains a system of segregation and control, using laws and policies to restrict Palestinians to enclaves segregated from Jewish Israelis.
Finally, Israel deprives Palestinians of economic and social rights. Disadvantage is maintained through a deliberate policy of impoverishment.
Read the article by Nick Everett in Red Flag.
[Editor: The Israel bashers at Red Flag can’t get enough of this Amnesty bullshit so they have published another article with the same content titled Amnesty report sends Israel supporters into a frenzy]