[[{"content_id":"8942","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"83","user_id":"7","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"7","content_title":"Advocacy group B\u2019Tselem calls Israel apartheid regime for first time","content_number":"","content_date_event":"2021-01-12 14:48:46","content_summary":"An Israeli advocacy group says Israel is not a democracy but an \u201capartheid regime\u201d that systematically oppresses the Palestinians via military occupation and racist laws.","content_summary_fill":"1","content_body":" \r\n\r\nIn a position paper published on Tuesday, B’Tselem, for the first time in its 31-year history, called Israel an apartheid regime — which is a crime under international law — for using “laws, practices and organized violence to cement the supremacy of one group over another.”\r\n\r\nIt said, “Israeli apartheid, which promotes the supremacy of Jews over Palestinians, was not born in one day or of a single speech. It is a process that has gradually grown more institutionalized and explicit, with mechanisms introduced over time in law and practice to promote Jewish supremacy,”\r\n\r\n\r\n“These accumulated measures, their pervasiveness in legislation and political practice, and the public and judicial support they receive – all form the basis for our conclusion that the bar for labeling the Israeli regime as apartheid has been met,” it added.\r\n\r\n\r\nIsrael occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds during the Six-Day War in 1967. It later annexed East Jerusalem al-Quds in a move not recognized by the international community.\r\n\r\nPalestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem al-Quds as its capital.\r\n\r\nBut Israel’s aggressive settlement expansion and annexation plans have dealt a serious blow to any prospects of peace.\r\n\r\nThe Gaza Strip has also been under an inhumane Israeli land, air and sea siege since 2007 and witnessed three wars since 2008.\r\n\r\nElsewhere in its report, dubbed “A regime of Jewish supremacy exists from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean Sea. This is apartheid,” B’Tselem rejected the assumption that Israel operates two separate systems of rule concurrently, a democracy within the occupied territory and a military grip over the Palestinians.\r\n\r\n\r\n“The entire area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River is organized under a single principle: advancing and cementing the supremacy of one group – Jews – over another – Palestinians. All this leads to the conclusion that these are not two parallel regimes that simply happen to uphold the same principle. There is one regime governing the entire area and the people living in it, based on a single organizing principle,” it said.","content_html":"

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In a position paper published on Tuesday, B’Tselem, for the first time in its 31-year history, called Israel an apartheid regime — which is a crime under international law — for using “laws, practices and organized violence to cement the supremacy of one group over another.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n

It said, “Israeli apartheid, which promotes the supremacy of Jews over Palestinians, was not born in one day or of a single speech. It is a process that has gradually grown more institutionalized and explicit, with mechanisms introduced over time in law and practice to promote Jewish supremacy,”<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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“These accumulated measures, their pervasiveness in legislation and political practice, and the public and judicial support they receive – all form the basis for our conclusion that the bar for labeling the Israeli regime as apartheid has been met,” it added.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds during the Six-Day War in 1967. It later annexed East Jerusalem al-Quds in a move not recognized by the international community.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem al-Quds as its capital.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

But Israel’s aggressive settlement expansion and annexation plans have dealt a serious blow to any prospects of peace.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The Gaza Strip has also been under an inhumane Israeli land, air and sea siege since 2007 and witnessed three wars since 2008.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Elsewhere in its report, dubbed “A regime of Jewish supremacy exists from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean Sea. This is apartheid,” B’Tselem rejected the assumption that Israel operates two separate systems of rule concurrently, a democracy within the occupied territory and a military grip over the Palestinians.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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“The entire area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River is organized under a single principle: advancing and cementing the supremacy of one group – Jews – over another – Palestinians. All this leads to the conclusion that these are not two parallel regimes that simply happen to uphold the same principle. There is one regime governing the entire area and the people living in it, based on a single organizing principle,” it said.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2021-01-12 14:48:46","content_date_finish":"2021-01-12 14:48:46","content_date_register":"2021-01-12 14:49:54","content_date_last_edit":"2021-01-12 14:50:14","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"0","content_show_related_img":"0","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"1","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"0","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","tag_id":"53132","tag_word":"Israeli advocacy,Israeli advocacy,Israeli advocacy,Tselem,Tselem,Tselem,Mediterranean Sea,Mediterranean Sea,Mediterranean Sea","tag_service":"0","tag_total":"2","tag_soundex":"","attach_token":"1413446356","attach_date_register":"2021-01-12 14:50:08","attach_id":"13172","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"1000","attach_img_height":"557","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"128","visit_date_last":"2024-11-02 23:48:54","attach_title":"Advocacy group B\u2019Tselem calls Israel apartheid regime for first time 2","node_title":"News,Ordinary,Palestine","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":98, \"left\":2, \"right\":11},{\"node_id\":120, \"left\":51, \"right\":52},{\"node_id\":127, \"left\":66, \"right\":67}]","node_number":"9","allowable_node":"9"}]]