Dan Diker and
Olga Meshoe Washington argue that Human Rights Watch's report 'A threshold crossed' where it designates Israel's policies as apartheid, contains several conceptual black holes.
The 27 April 2021 Human Rights Watch Report, "A Threshold Crossed", accusing Israel of "apartheid", may rank as one of the most cynical and politically motivated weaponisations of human rights in recent memory.
Its misapplication of apartheid is stunning.
In an act of Orwellian doublespeak, it recasts a decade's old war by the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Hamas against the existence of sovereign Jews anywhere in the Middle East into an accusation of Israeli racial supremacy and persecution of Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The falsehoods, negligence, intellectual dishonesty, misleading assumptions, and missing historical, legal and social contexts require a thesis chapter to address properly.