Jerusalem: Since the start of the month of Ramadan, the Israeli police has been committing crimes against muslims in the region to a certain degree that include harassment, obstruction to prayer, looting, death threats and unfair arrests. Clashes erupted between far-right Israelis and Arabs in which 200 Palestenians were wounded on the 23rd of April.
TONIGHT: Hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis demonstrate in central Jerusalem against racism and violence just days after Jewish supremacists held a march through the city center while chanting “death to Arabs.”
(Photos by Free Jerusalem) pic.twitter.com/fS0kgVK0H9
— Edo Konrad (@edokonrad) April 24, 2021
The HRW report: In what has been called the most comprehensive report to date on Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, the Human Rights Watch has said that Israel is committing crimes against humanity. They further stated that the US and the international community are turning a ‘blind eye’ to the situation. The 213 page report titled ‘A Threshold Crossed’, the HRW accuses Israel for ‘Apartheid and Persecution’. Such a statement has been made for the first time ever. It claims that the Israeli government maintains a policy of of domination by the Jewish Israelis over the Palestinian people, where both groups are in equal size.
Human Rights Watch says Israel is guilty of the international crimes of apartheid and persecution because of its discriminatory policies toward Palestinians within its own borders and in the occupied territories. By @josephkrauss. https://t.co/5sgQlOBZZu
— AP Middle East (@APMiddleEast) April 27, 2021
Implications: The HRW has advocated for an international committee of inquiry and sanctions to initiate travel bans, freezing of assets against officials responsible.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has called the report a ‘propaganda pamphlet’. They further stated that the report had ‘no connection to facts or on ground reality and accused the HRW for a long standing anti-Israel agenda.
'For too long, the international community has failed to recognize the reality on the ground for what it is,' the report maintains.
Israel has vehemently rejected the report's findings, with the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs referring to it as 'preposterous.'
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 27, 2021
Many criticized the HRW for coming to this conclusion so many decades later.
human rights watch was founded in 1978, and it took them until 2021 to finally admit what the palestinian liberation movement and its supporters have been saying all along: israel is an apartheid state https://t.co/Sa8rK7xvSU
— ☀️ (@zei_squirrel) April 27, 2021