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posted on 1/2/2022 10:16The crime of Apartheid - Gramsci.
I think we all knew it.
Amnesty's report* today is one in a long line of reports which draws that conclusion, and a very important milestone towards a recogntion of the injustices vistited upon Palestinian people.
Like many people and organisations before that have made legitimate observations like this, they (Amnesty International) will be accused of antisemitism. Such false accusations serve only to demean the real fight against real antisemitism of course.
Extract:
7.1.1 A SYSTEM AND CRIME OF APARTHEID AGAINST PALESTINIANS
- “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell -
Amnesty's report* today is one in a long line of reports which draws that conclusion, and a very important milestone towards a recogntion of the injustices vistited upon Palestinian people.
Like many people and organisations before that have made legitimate observations like this, they (Amnesty International) will be accused of antisemitism. Such false accusations serve only to demean the real fight against real antisemitism of course.
Extract:
7.1.1 A SYSTEM AND CRIME OF APARTHEID AGAINST PALESTINIANS
This report analyses whether institutionalized discrimination committed in Israel and the OPT and against Palestinian refugees amounts to a system of apartheid as well as whether the serious human rights violations committed within the context of implementing this system constitutes the crime of apartheid.
Amnesty International has considered whether Israeli laws, policies and practices deployed against the Palestinian people violate international human rights law as well as whether they constitute crimes under the Apartheid Convention and the Rome Statute. Amnesty International understands apartheid as condemned by the ICERD to constitute the creation and maintenance of a system or regime of oppression and domination by one racial group over another.
The crime of apartheid is committed when inhuman or inhumane acts are committed within the context of a widespread or systematic attack directed at a civilian population with the intention of creating or maintaining such a system of oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups.
The crime of apartheid is committed when inhuman or inhumane acts are committed within the context of a widespread or systematic attack directed at a civilian population with the intention of creating or maintaining such a system of oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups.
The totality of the regime of laws, policies and practices described in this report demonstrates that Israel has established and maintained an institutionalized regime of oppression and domination of the Palestinian population for the benefit of Jewish Israelis – a system of apartheid – wherever it has exercised control over Palestinians’ lives since 1948. The report concludes that the State of Israel considers and treats Palestinians as an inferior nonJewish racial group.
The segregation is conducted in a systematic and highly institutionalized manner through laws, policies and practices, all of which are intended to prevent Palestinians from claiming and enjoying equal rights with Jewish Israelis within the territory of Israel and within the OPT, and thus are intended to oppress and dominate the Palestinian people.
This has been complemented by a legal regime that controls (by negating) the
The segregation is conducted in a systematic and highly institutionalized manner through laws, policies and practices, all of which are intended to prevent Palestinians from claiming and enjoying equal rights with Jewish Israelis within the territory of Israel and within the OPT, and thus are intended to oppress and dominate the Palestinian people.
This has been complemented by a legal regime that controls (by negating) the
rights of Palestinian refugees residing outside Israel and the OPT to return to their homes. Israel has ensured that the Palestinian people are segmented into different geographical areas and treated differently with the intention and effect of dividing the population while consistently preventing its members from exercising their fundamental human rights.
Thus, the legal fragmentation of the Palestinian population between
Thus, the legal fragmentation of the Palestinian population between
Israel, East Jerusalem, the rest of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the refugee communities serves as a foundational element of the regime of oppression and domination of Palestinians.
This legal fragmentation denies Palestinians the possibility of realizing equality within Israel and the OPT.
This legal fragmentation denies Palestinians the possibility of realizing equality within Israel and the OPT.
Other aspects of the system of oppression and domination include legal regimes that ensure the denial of nationality and residence, denial of family life, severe restrictions on freedom of movement, and discriminatory seizure and allocation of and access to resources.
All of these have enabled and resulted in grave violations of social and economic rights, including access to housing, adequate standards of living, livelihoods, work, healthcare, food security, water and sanitation, and education.
The outcome of these legal regimes has been the prolonged and cruel violation of the human rights of individual Palestinians wherever Israel exercises control over their enjoyment of these rights.
All of these have enabled and resulted in grave violations of social and economic rights, including access to housing, adequate standards of living, livelihoods, work, healthcare, food security, water and sanitation, and education.
The outcome of these legal regimes has been the prolonged and cruel violation of the human rights of individual Palestinians wherever Israel exercises control over their enjoyment of these rights.
Israel’s system of institutionalized segregation and discrimination against Palestinians, as a racial group, in all areas under its control amounts to a system of apartheid, and a serious violation of Israel’s human rights obligations. Almost all of Israel’s civilian administration and military authorities, as well as governmental and quasi-governmental institutions, are involved in the enforcement of a system of apartheid against Palestinians across Israel and the OPT and against Palestinian refugees and their descendants outside the territory.
The intention to maintain this system has been explicitly declared by successive Israeli political leaders, emphasizing the overarching objective of maintaining Jewish Israeli domination by excluding, segregating and expelling Palestinians.
The intention was clearly crystallized in the 2018 nation state law, which constitutionally enshrined racial discrimination against non-Jewish people in Israel and the OPT. Senior civilian and military officials have also issued numerous public statements and directives over the years that reveal, maintain and enforce the institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination of Palestinians, being fully aware of, and therefore fully responsible for, the atrocious consequences the regime has for the lives of the Palestinian population.
The intention to maintain this system has been explicitly declared by successive Israeli political leaders, emphasizing the overarching objective of maintaining Jewish Israeli domination by excluding, segregating and expelling Palestinians.
The intention was clearly crystallized in the 2018 nation state law, which constitutionally enshrined racial discrimination against non-Jewish people in Israel and the OPT. Senior civilian and military officials have also issued numerous public statements and directives over the years that reveal, maintain and enforce the institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination of Palestinians, being fully aware of, and therefore fully responsible for, the atrocious consequences the regime has for the lives of the Palestinian population.
Israel continues to perpetrate widespread as well as systematic human rights violations against the Palestinian population against a backdrop of decades of state-sponsored discrimination, segregation and persecution that has targeted the Palestinian population as a whole on the basis of their non-Jewish identity and national status.
This report documents inhuman and inhumane acts, serious human rights violations and crimes under international law, committed against the Palestinian population with the intent to maintain this system of oppression and domination.
This report documents inhuman and inhumane acts, serious human rights violations and crimes under international law, committed against the Palestinian population with the intent to maintain this system of oppression and domination.
Amnesty International has examined specifically the inhumane acts of forcible transfer, administrative detention and torture, unlawful killings and serious injuries, and the denial of basic freedoms or persecution committed against the Palestinian population in Israel and the OPT. The organization has concluded that the patterns of proscribed acts perpetrated by Israel form part of a systematic as well as widespread attack directed against the Palestinian population, and that the inhuman or inhumane acts committed within the context of this attack have been committed with the intention to maintain this system and amount to the crime against humanity of apartheid under both the Apartheid Convention and the Rome Statute.
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https://assets.forward.com/Amnesty+Report.pdf
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https://assets.forward.com/Amnesty+Report.pdf
- “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell -
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