The war in Gaza serves as a smokescreen to the escalation of settler expansion and violence in the West Bank, writes Dan Steinbock. Meanwhile, Biden’s hawks refocus on Iran. Last of a 5-part series.
Gaza-Israel Catastrophe — Settlers & Wider War
Tag: Israeli apartheid
Chris Hedges: Palestinians Speak Israel’s Language
Israel follows the colonial playbook. Death for death. Atrocity for atrocity. But it is always the occupier who initiates this macabre dance and trades piles of corpses for higher piles of corpses.
Israel Cannot Rebut Apartheid
In late June, after visiting Palestine and Israel on behalf of a group formed by Nelson Mandela, two former senior U.N. officials — Ban Ki-moon and Mary Robinson — published a scathing report on their findings, writes Vijay Prashad.
Israel Using Biometric Cameras to Terrorize Palestinians
The facial recognition surveillance system violates Palestinians’ human rights to freedom of movement and privacy, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Democracy or Apartheid
This is a fight to maintain and protect the status quo for Israelis, not Palestinians who have been denied all basic democratic rights under Israel since 1948, writes Nour.
Israel’s Liberal Supporters Take Denial to New Level
The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank that began in 1967 has been nothing less than an ongoing, large-scale crime against humanity, writes Norman Solomon.
‘Watering Down’ Israeli Apartheid
Ramzy Baroud says it’s as if there is a conspiracy not to describe the realities of Palestine and the Palestinian people by their proper names: war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and apartheid.
Biden Administration’s Capitulation to Israel
By preventing a U.N. Security Council vote on Israel’s illegal settlements, Marjorie Cohn says Biden failed to demonstrate even the modicum of reason exhibited by the Obama-Biden administration.
Biden Nominee Dropped After ‘Israel Apartheid’ Comment
The withdrawal of James Cavallaro’s nomination to a human rights commission was decried by rights advocates as a clamp-down on criticism of the Israeli government’s violent policies in Palestine.
Barcelona Mayor Cuts City’s Ties with Israel
In a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Ada Colau condemned the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people and said she was breaking off a symbolic, sister-city twinning agreement with Tel Aviv.