Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling on Israel to hold new elections. Schumer says he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” amid the Israeli bombardment of Gaza and a growing humanitarian crisis there.
  • JoBo@feddit.uk
    31·
    8 months ago

    You don’t get to make up your own definition. Apartheid is physical separation enshrined in different laws for different populations.

    Do you even know what a West Bank settlement looks like? Did you imagine the settlers as jolly villagers living amongst the Palestinians, subject to equal persecution by Israel?

    Do some reading.

    • TheFonz@lemmy.world
      11·
      8 months ago

      You love doing two things I’ve noticed:

      1. Ascribing positions and statements to me that I do not hold or never claimed.

      2. Delegate people to ‘do some reading’. Are you unable to sustain your position without these asinine injunctions?

      And all this for requiring clarification on how you define apartheid in this context. It’s clear it doesn’t mean anything to you. My conclusion is it’s just a buzzword that you enjoy trotting out when there is mention of Gaza. Convince me otherwise without your holier than thou “do some reading”.

      • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        The summaries of the reports themselves are pages long…

        Here’s a small fraction of just the summary of the Amnesty report. If you want details you will have to read it. Otherwise I do know of some videos that lay it out too.

        Building on a growing body of work, Amnesty International has documented and analysed Israel’s institutionalized and systematic discrimination against Palestinians within the framework of the definition of apartheid under international law. This has aimed to determine whether discriminatory and exclusionary Israeli laws, policies and practices against Palestinians amount to apartheid as a violation of public international law, a serious human rights violation and a crime against humanity. It has done so by firstly determining Israel’s intent to oppress and dominate all Palestinians by establishing its hegemony across Israel and the OPT, including through means of demography, and maximizing resources for the benef i t of its Jewish population at the expense of Palestinians. It has then analysed the laws, policies and practices which have, over time, come to constitute the main tools for establishing and maintaining this system, and which discriminate against and segregate Palestinians in Israel and the OPT today, as well as controlling Palestinian refugees’ right to return. It has conducted this analysis by examining the key components of this system of oppression and domination: territorial fragmentation; segregation and control through the denial of equal nationality and status, restrictions on movement, discriminatory family reunification laws, the use of military rule and restrictions on the right to political participation and popular resistance; dispossession of land and property; and the suppression of Palestinians’ human development and denial of their economic and social rights. Furthermore, it has documented specific 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.