Beitar Illit Mayor Meir Rubenstein on Monday controversially ordered to deny entry into all buses in the West Bank settlement for Arab passengers, including those carrying Israeli ID badges. “I turned to [Transportation Minister] Miri…
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Common Dreams: South African Parliament Votes to Downgrade Embassy Over Israeli Crimes in Palestine
South African lawmakers voted Tuesday to downgrade the country’s embassy in Israel in response to its apartheid, illegal occupation, and other crimes against Palestinians—a move welcomed by human rights advocates around the…
Jewish Currents: Understanding Apartheid
Embracing a radical critique of Israeli apartheid is a precondition for bringing it to a just end. At the height of the Unity Intifada in May 2021, as Palestinians demonstrated from Gaza City to…
Le Monde: ‘We must acknowledge that Israel’s policies against Palestinians amount to the crime of apartheid’
Five former foreign ministers denounce violations of Palestinian human rights and call on the international community to hold the Israeli government to account. As the world is watching in horror events unfolding…
Middle East Eye: South Africa says Israel should be labelled ‘apartheid state’
A South African minister has called for the classification of Israel as an apartheid state, to hold it responsible for its violations against Palestinians. At a meeting with the Palestinian Heads of Mission in Africa…
WRMEA: Campaign Educates and Empowers to End Israeli Apartheid
INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICES (IJV) Canada launched a new initiative in March 2022, Together Against Apartheid, to educate and empower people across Canada to end the oppression of Palestinians. “Just as the world came…
972 Magazine – Mission failed: How Israel’s anti-BDS app went belly-up
In June 2017, at an event connected to New York’s annual Celebrate Israel parade, then-Minister of Strategic Affairs Gilad Erdan announced the launch of a new digital campaign, 4IL (“For Israel”), a one-stop digital…
Mondoweiss: ‘Apartheid’ chorus grows — 60 percent of Middle East scholars reach that conclusion
The number of experts who characterize Israeli rule over Palestinians as apartheid keeps growing. And several organizations have set up databases to document the trend. “Who’s calling it apartheid?” is Independent Jewish Voices of…
Middle East Monitor: Canada fails to explain why it rejects Israel ‘apartheid’ report
Canada’s minister of foreign affairs has confirmed that the government “rejects” the findings of human rights groups which describe Israel as practising apartheid against the Palestinians. Mélanie Joly made her comments during…
Mondoweiss: I know Israel practices apartheid because I helped enforce it
By Rafael Silver – I am a Jew. I am an Israeli citizen. I am a veteran of a combat unit in the Israeli army. I left Israel in 2001 and immigrated…