‘Apartheid’ is not sufficient: an interview with UN Human Rights Commissioner Miloon Kothari
UN Human Rights Commissioner Miloon Kothari explains why Apartheid is not enough to explain the root causes of the Palestinian crisis.
[The War of Ideas in the Middle East->http://mondoweiss.net/] par Philip Weiss et Adam Horowitz.
UN Human Rights Commissioner Miloon Kothari explains why Apartheid is not enough to explain the root causes of the Palestinian crisis.
Israeli mailing restrictions in Gaza have resulted in an effective book ban for two million Palestinians.
Ubai Aboudi was detained by Israeli forces as he attempted to enter Jordan bound for the World Social Forum in Mexico. Aboudi was also scheduled to go on a speaking tour in the United States.
Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic’s recent report declaring that Israel is practicing apartheid is a victory for Palestinian human rights.
Even the apartheid regime in South Africa never outlawed human rights defenders in the manner that Israel just did when it declared six Palestinian organizations to be ‘terrorist organizations.’
Sheikh Jarrah residents have rejected an Israeli Supreme Court proposal that would have made them “protected tenants” in their own homes, and paved the way for future displacement by Israeli settlers.
Classrooms in Gaza are filled beyond capacity as educators struggle to accommodate children whose schools were destroyed by Israel last May.
More than 1000 academics, artists and intellectuals have signed a “Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine,” in a sign of the growing acceptance of the term in the west.
On behalf of 400 medical, public health, and community leaders, the Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity is calling on Scientific American to immediately re-publish an article on Palestine solidarity that it removed, and to end its censorship of Palestinian voices.
‘There’s one direction we’re going in. We are struggling against an apartheid regime and we saw what happened in South Africa. If we continue working and educating the public and these leaders continue with their incoherent messaging, we will win.’