April 2022
Harvard Law School ‘apartheid’ report Steve France Mondoweiss 05/04/2022
Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) lately issued a report that finds Israel’s treatment of Palestinians on the West Bank amounts to the crime of apartheid. The study, “Apartheid in the Occupied West Bank: A Legal Analysis of Israel’s Actions” came out on February 28 in the wake of five longer, wider-ranging, apartheid reports published since 2020
Read more: Harvard Law School ‘apartheid’ report leaves Israel’s defenders speechless – Mondoweiss
No rights for Gaza’s workers in Israel Amjad Ayman Yaghi EI 07/04/2022
Abdelwahab was able to obtain a permit to work in Israel, but he was not officially designated a “worker.”Instead, he received a “financial needs” permit, which strips the worker of access to benefits like workers’ compensation, health insurance and other labor rights afforded to workers in Israel.“I am waiting to recover from my injury to return to work,” he said. “The more I stay at home, the more things get worse for me. I have children, three of them are school students, and I have major expenses.”Though Abdelwahab considers matters like health and life insurance important, he said that conditions in Gaza are so dire that any job, even one without benefits, is “like a dream.
Read more: No rights for Gaza’s workers in Israel | The Electronic Intifada
Two women, child among 6 Palestinians killed Tamara Nassar EI 11/04/2022A Palestinian child and two women are among six Palestinians killed in attacks by Israeli forces since Friday.Soldiers shot 16-year-old Muhammad Hussein Muhammad Qassim in the abdomen during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday evening.
“Doctors found multiple bullet fragments in Muhammad’s pelvis and buttocks,” Defense for Children International–Palestine stated on Monday. Muhammad was pronounced dead shortly after 7 am this morning. He is the sixth Palestinian child killed by Israeli forces this year.
Read more: Two women, child among 6 Palestinians killed | The Electronic Intifada
17-year-old killed by an exploding bullet DCI 15/04/2022
“This week, Israeli forces have shot and killed three Palestinian boys in the occupied West Bank,” said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability program director at DCIP. “Systemic impunity has fostered an environment where Palestinian children are targeted by Israeli forces who know no bounds and shoot-to-kill in situations not justified by international law.”
Worshippers beaten to make way for settlers Yumna Patel Mondoweiss 17/04/22
Footage showed Israeli forces beating a father in front of his son, and manhandling worshipers as they were praying in a bid to force them out of the compound. . . also showed people screaming and banging on the caged windows of the prayer hall, after Israeli forces had allegedly locked them inside. . . in order to facilitate groups of Jewish settlers who came to the compound for the Passover holidays.
Read more: Israel storms Al-Aqsa, beats Palestinian worshipers to make way for Jewish settlers – Mondoweiss
The Bakr boys and Israel’s impunity Jonathan Ofir Mondoweiss 26/04/2022
The massacre of the four Bakr boys (aged 10-11) who were playing soccer on the beach in Gaza in 2014 is one of the most notorious single events within the 51-day Israeli onslaught on the besieged Gaza enclave. . . . Two days ago, another bomb landed upon their memory: the bomb of impunity, delivered by the Israeli Supreme Court. . . . The court accepted wholly the logic of the Attorney General (AG), who accepted wholly the logic of the Military Advocate General (MAG), that this was just a “tragic” mistake, but not one that demanded further accountability.
Read more: The Bakr boys and Israel’s iron dome of impunity – Mondoweiss
UN experts press for action over “terror” designations Maureen Clare Murphy 28/04/2022 A dozen UN human rights experts are calling on governments to resume and increase funding to prominent Palestinian organizations designated by Israel as “terrorist groups” in October. The experts, who include Michael Lynk, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, say that “the information presented by Israel” fails to substantiate its accusations against the groups.The targeted organizations – Addameer, Al-Haq, Defense for Children International-Palestine, Bisan Center for Research and Development, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees and the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees – include human rights groups engaged with the International Criminal Court’s Palestine investigation into war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Read more: UN experts press for action over “terror” designations | The Electronic Intifada
UK Comment
Starmer denies Israel is an apartheid state Nureddin Sabir R I & A 10/04/2022
“The heart of Labour’s difficulties with Jews lies in its feelings towards Israel. In February, Amnesty International branded the country an “apartheid state”… Many Labour members, especially on the left, enthusiastically embraced this label.“Did Sir Keir agree with them?
’No. I’ve been very clear about that,’ he says, without missing a beat. ’That is not the Labour Party position.’ He presented his stance at the Labour Friends of Israel lunch before Chanukah, he adds, which was strongly and unapologetically pro-Israel.”
UJS admits to faked petition signatures Asa Winstanley EI 14/04/2022
In an open letter it launched on Tuesday, the Israel lobbyists implied that the NUS’ incoming president Shaima Dallali should be removed and demanded the student union adopt a bogus, pro-Israel definition of anti-Semitism. But on Wednesday, several Jewish writers and activists whose names initially appeared on the petition publicly distanced themselves, saying they had never signed it in the first place. “Someone has added my name to this letter which I categorically do not want to sign,” writer Em Hilton posted on Twitter.
Read more: Union of Jewish Students admits to faked petition signatures | The Electronic Intifada
BBC actor and Labour anti-Semitism smear Asa Winstanley EI 27/04/2022
British actor, Tracy-Ann Oberman, has admitted to falsely accusing a left-wing academic and activist who supports Palestinian rights of anti-Semitism. . . . She admitted that her attack on the academic was “a mistake” and “hurtful” and accepted that “Dr. Proudfoot has at no time had a Jew blocklist.”
Read more: BBC actor eats “humble pie” over Labour anti-Semitism smear | The Electronic Intifada
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