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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and his Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, second left, attend the arrival of plane with a shipment of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines, at Ben Gurion Airport
ISRAEL is an apartheid state, increasing its oppression of Palestinians in a system entrenched via military occupation and racist laws, Israeli human-rights group B’Tselem said today.
It published a new paper warning: “A regime of Jewish supremacy exists from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean sea. This is apartheid.”
The report dismisses notions that Israel is a democracy —representing some six million people while simultaneously holding a further five million Palestinians under “temporary military occupation.”
As antisemitism grows, the labour movement must recommit to defence of minorities while navigating the complexities of Gaza and global politics, argues NICK WRIGHT
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE