CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad, whose family was ethnically-cleansed from Palestine, said: The Palestinian people – Muslim and Christian are continuing their decades-long struggle to resist both ongoing ethnic cleansing and the apartheid system that has been so-named by respected international groups like
. To term this resistance and the brutal Israeli response as clashes falsely indicates a moral equivalency between the oppressor and the oppressed, between the occupier and the occupied. Our nation s thought leaders and policymakers must finally give up the human rights and justice everywhere – except Palestine attitude that has resulted in so much suffering and injustice over so many years.
/PRNewswire/ The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on media.
A Threshold Crossed : Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
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Crimes Against Humanity Should Trigger Action to End Repression of Palestinians
(Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The finding is based on an overarching Israeli government policy to maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians and grave abuses committed against Palestinians living in the occupied territory, including East Jerusalem.
The 213-page report, “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution,” examines Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. It presents the present-day reality of a single authority, the Israeli government, ruling primarily over the area between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, populated by two groups of roughly equal size, and methodologically privileging Jewish Israelis while