Amnesty International accused Israel on Tuesday of subjecting Palestinians to a system of apartheid founded on policies of “segregation, dispossession and exclusion” that it said amounted to crimes against humanity. The London-based…
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Toronto Star: Amnesty report labels Israeli actions against Palestinians as apartheid and crimes against humanity
By Shree Paradkar – Israel is committing acts of apartheid against Palestinians that constitute a crime against humanity, says a bombshell report by Amnesty International being release Tuesday. The 280-page report by…
Washington Post – Israel must choose: Withdraw from the occupied territories or grant Palestinians under its control full rights
By Mairav Zonszein When Israel’s new president, Isaac Herzog, marked the first night of Hannukah in December by lighting candles in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, where some 850 Israeli settlers…
Middle East Monitor: Product of Zionism is ‘Apartheid, plain and simple’, says Israeli publisher
A growing number of Israelis are acknowledging that their country practices Apartheid. Resigned to the fact that the occupation has become a permanent reality, thus relegating half of the non-Jewish population in…
TIMES OF ISRAEL: POLL FINDS A QUARTER OF US JEWS THINK ISRAEL IS ‘APARTHEID STATE’
By Ron Kampeas – A survey of US Jewish voters taken after the Israel-Gaza conflict finds that a sizable minority believes some of the harshest criticisms of Israel, including that it is committing…
Globe and Mail: Human rights group says Israel’s treatment of Palestinians amounts to ‘apartheid’
By Mark MacKinnon – Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians amounts to “apartheid,” a leading international human-rights group has concluded in a new report, which also calls on foreign governments to impose sanctions and…
The Guardian view on Israel and apartheid: prophecy or description?
It was a deliberate provocation by B’Tselem, Israel’s largest human rights group, to describe the Palestinians in the Holy Land as living under an apartheid regime. Many Israelis detest the idea that their country,…