As a Rabbi Raised in South Africa, I Can’t Ignore Israel Is an Apartheid State

Details: Written by Brian Walt Brian Walt; Published: 20 February 2021 20 February 2021

Since 1989, B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, has rigorously documented the many ways Israel violates the basic human rights of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza: through land confiscation, killing of Palestinians by security forces or settlers, forcible transfer of Palestinians, restrictions on movement, torture and abuse in interrogation, and administrative detention. It also reports on violations by Palestinians against the rights of Israeli civilians.

B’Tselem’s report on apartheid challenges what analyst Nathan Thrall terms the “separate regimes delusion” — the idea that Israel within the Green Line is a democracy that is somehow fundamentally different from its “temporary” military occupation of the Occupied Territories that has existed for more than 50 years. The report argues that over time the distinction between the two areas “has grown divorced from reality.” East Jerusalem has been annexed and the West Bank has been annexed in practice. “The entire area between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River is organized under a single principle: advancing and cementing the supremacy of one group — Jews — over another — Palestinians.”

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A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

Details: Written by B'Tselem B'Tselem; Published: 12 January 2021 12 January 2021

The Israeli human rights group B'tselem has issued a new report about Israel's apartheid regime, as their Executive Director, Hagai El-Ad, said, "Today, B’Tselem releases its position paper: A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid. It is the first time in B’Tselem’s more than thirty-year history, since its founding in 1989 during the first intifada, that we publish an analysis addressing reality in the entire area controlled by Israel rather than only the Occupied Territories."

What Black Lives and Palestinian Lives Have in Common

Details: Written by Gilbert Schramm Gilbert Schramm; Published: 15 June 2020 15 June 2020

June 7, 2020

(you can read more articles by Gilbert Schramm at: https://mind-cast.com)

What the lives of American people of color and Palestinians have in common is first and foremost that they both matter. To remind people of this simple fact is not to suggest that other lives don’t matter—that is just nonsense—a cheap distraction and sophomoric talking point. The point of the slogan “Black Lives Matter” is to draw attention to the obvious fact that people of color in the US (like Palestinians) have systematically been treated with callous, often brutal and lethal, disregard.

The New Middle East Peace Plan Promises Projects, Not Peace

Details: Written by Zaha Hassan Zaha Hassan; Published: 05 July 2019 05 July 2019

Live-streamed coverage of the Bahrain “Peace to Prosperity” workshop, phase one in the Trump administration’s release of its peace plan for Israelis and Palestinians, brought to mind a dark, smoke-filled room from an earlier period where other powerful men, British and French, divvied up Arab land after World War I. This time, Arab governments and the U.S. co-hosted the dismemberment of the Palestinians’ national aspirations, while sitting in TED Talk-styled respectability. Just as before, ideas like human rights, self-determination and political and economic sovereignty were completely lost on the architects of this new effort.

The glitzy presentations and marketing materials largely repackage old, failed ideas about the potential for economic development, even while Israel keeps control over Palestinian land. There is no acknowledgment of the existence of an Israeli military occupation, no mention of the likely formal annexation of the West Bank following Israeli elections in September, nor of Israel’s intention to continue its twelve-year isolation and siege of Gaza. Instead, the plan assumes what ails Palestinians is not a lack of freedom and self-determination, but the poor management of their economy and a lack of knowledge about how to run basic municipal services.

Kushner's plan to sugarcoat the occupation of Palestine

Details: Written by Josh Ruebner Josh Ruebner; Published: 24 May 2019 24 May 2019

May 22, 2019 Updated 20:16 GMT

'In Kushner's estimation, self-determination isn't a political concept but an economic one' writes Ruebner [Anadolu]

Date of publication: 22 May, 2019

Comment: A two-day international 'Peace to Prosperity' economic workshop in Bahrain undermines Palestinians and their calls for sovereignty, writes Josh Ruebner.

Also read at: https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2019/5/22/kushners-plan-to-sugarcoat-the-occupation-of-palestine

In 2018, prosecutors in Brooklyn subpoenaed information from the family-run real estate development business Kushner Companies to investigate how it "routinely filed false paperwork that resulted in the company netting millions during a three-year period" when presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner was its CEO.

At one of its properties, current and former residents alleged that the company deliberately subjected them "to extensive construction, with banging, drilling, dust, and leaking water that they believe were part of targeted harassment to get them to leave and clear the way for higher-paying renters."

Now, as a senior presidential advisor, Kushner has teamed up with Jason Greenblatt - Trump's former real estate lawyer - and US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman - Trump's former bankruptcy lawyer - to form another Kushner and Associates of sorts, to draft the Trump administration's "Deal of the Century" for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

This new incorporation of Kushner and Associates appears to be adopting its usual shady business practices in an attempt to force Palestinians into submission to perpetual Israeli dominance.

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