New report blasts Israel for Zionist State’s human rights violations and ‘apartheid’ policies

“Our report reveals the true extent of Israel’s apartheid regime,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s secretary general. “Palestinians are treated as an inferior racial group and systematically deprived of their rights,” she said.
The report said since its inception in 1948, Israel has pursued an explicit policy of establishing and maintaining a Jewish demographic hegemony and maximizing its control over land to benefit Jewish Israelis. In response, Israel rejected the report and lambasted Amnesty International as anti-Semitic and dubious, which the group denies.
Amnesty spent four years on the ground investigating, interviewing victims, and conducting legal analysis with apartheid experts.
The report describes a situation of usurped Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, restriction of free movement, and denying nationality and citizenship to Palestinians. All are components of an illegal apartheid system under international law according to the Rome Statute and Apartheid Convention.
Amnesty wants the International Criminal Court (ICC) to include the crime of apartheid in a current investigation of Israel. It is asking ICC states to exert universal jurisdiction to bring perpetrators of apartheid crimes to justice.
The U.S. stood by Israel in its pushback against Amnesty International, which was not surprising. Mauri Saalakhan of the Aafia Siddique Foundation explained that America is just as guilty for Israel’s crimes against humanity because America supports the Zionist country. Rights violations in tow, the U.S. delivers nearly $4 billion annually to Israel, without fail. He described the relationship as a “Satanic entanglement.”
“It’s the entanglement the United States has with the State of Israel that has basically compromised the values that this country is supposed to theoretically stand on,” he said.
A joint statement of major Jewish organizations in America echoed the accusation of anti-Semitism and responded to the report with negative attacks. However, 13 Israeli non-governmental organizations signed a counter response rejecting the Israeli government and U.S. “echo-chamber” notion that the report is “baseless,” “singles out Israel” or “displays anti-Semitic animus.”
“It’s absurd the Israeli authorities would try to name Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and their own internal human rights organization as antisemitic,” said Ajamu Baraka, national organizer with Black Alliance for Peace.
However, labeling people or entities critical of Israel with antisemitism has been the modus operandi of the Jewish community. It was the “cancel culture” before the common use of cancelling out people.
Whether its Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the entire Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, uncompromising change agents and critical thinkers about the Zionist State, they are targeted, and cancelled.
Anyone who criticizes, raises questions, exposes Jewish contradictions, or calls for a balanced policy in Israel is automatically stamped anti-Semitic. They are publicly “reprimanded” replete with pressure to retract and apologize.
Ajamu Baraka of The Black Alliance For Peace sees the pressure placed on such critics as a form of “political assassination” and “social death.”
“This is a dangerous phenomenon,” he said, “primarily pushed by White liberals,” whom he said, has normalized censorship.
“There is a certain kind of solidarity that we feel with Palestinians subjected to a colonial relationship to the Israeli state … similar to what we have in the U.S.,” Mr. Baraka said.
It must be remembered U.S. police were trained in Israel. Globally, Israel was a major supporter of the South African apartheid regime. The Jewish state is also involved in arms sales and training of repressive governments in Latin America and Africa.