Once HRW is relying on ICERD to define what racial discrimination is, they must then include the very next paragraph in ICERD, which applies directly to Israel - and which they do not quote in their report.
This Convention shall not apply to distinctions, exclusions, restrictions or preferences made by a State Party to this Convention between citizens and non-citizens.
This one paragraph completely destroys HRW’s “apartheid” argument.
Israeli laws do not distinguish between Israeli Jewish citizens and Israeli Arab citizens. They distinguish between Israeli citizens and non-citizens - which every nation on Earth does.
HRW and others will base their “apartheid” arguments on claims like saying that Jewish “settlers” in the territories have different laws than their Arab neighbors. HRW says that Israeli “policies include limiting the population and political power of Palestinians, granting the right to vote only to Palestinians who live within the borders of Israel as they existed from 1948 to June 1967.” But that is a lie - there are thousands of Israeli Arab citizens who live across the Green Line in French Hill, Beit Hanina, Beit Safafa and other communities, who can vote in Israeli elections, just like Israeli Jewish “settlers” can.
And if someone like, say, Peter Beinart decided to move to Ramallah to prove that Palestinians are wonderful people who wouldn’t murder him, he would not be allowed to vote in Israeli elections even though he is a Jew - because he is not an Israeli citizen.
Virtually every example of discrimination in the HRW report, as well as in other articles that make the claim of “apartheid,” is based not on whether someone is Arab or Jewish, but on whether they are citizens or non-citizens - the exact distinction that the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination made clear is not to be considered racial discrimination.
This one paragraph in the ICERD demolishes their entire 213 page report.
The authors of the Human Rights Watch report definitely knew this when they decided not to quote the other section of the ICERD that they base their entire argument on.
Artist: Jeff Simpson Title: Assassin’s Creed: Origins Kensa Concepts Second illustration reminds me of the “Hyena Man” I’ll post that video later Cool stuff…
Stickney Crater on Phobos.
By
Karol Markowicz
Meanwhile, students at Brown University marched and chanted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” which, for those unclear, is a call to dismantle Israel.
The chant is widely understood to be a call for genocide or ethnic cleansing, since it isn’t just about changing the name of the country but ridding the area of Jews entirely.
How does it feel to be a Jewish student at Brown today?
Oddly, the discussion now is moving to whether the people who are making Jews fear for their safety should face repercussions.
Should future employers know that you called for the extinction of Jews or threatened Jewish kids in the school library?
Suddenly the biggest promoters of cancel culture are very worried about “free speech.”
Universities have spent years talking about “harmful language,” “microaggressions” and “safe spaces” — and punishing students for all kinds of speech.
Kids were kicked out of school or had their acceptances rescinded for words they used before they ever got to college.
Social-media posts that embarrass the school have been used as grounds for expulsion.
Yet somehow these places of festering censorship have now fallen silent about explicit threats to Jewish students, citing their concern for protecting free-speech rights.
Spare us the excuses. We see what’s happening here.
Now that the harmful language consists of chants calling for the ethnic cleansing of Jews and the microaggressions are pretty macro, schools can’t just hide behind the First Amendment or weak slogans about what does or does not have a home on campus.
Antisemitism didn’t rise with the slaughter in southern Israel; it was exposed by it.
Wer mit den Abläufen bei den Vereinten Nationen vertraut ist, weiß genau, wie »unabhängige« Untersuchungskommissionen im Zusammenhang mit Israel dort zustande kommen. Überall anders würden externe Experten zu Mitgliedern solcher Gremien ernannt werden, die a) in keinem Naheverhältnis zu der zu untersuchenden Organisation stehen und b) sich zu dem betroffenen Themenfeld nicht einseitig und voreingenommen positioniert haben. Wer diesen Kriterien nicht entsprechen kann, macht zumindest den Anschein der Befangenheit und wäre deshalb fehl am Platze.
Doch bei den Vereinten Nationen läuft bekanntlich alles anders, sobald es um Israel geht. Voreingenommenheit und offensichtliche Befangenheit sind hier nicht etwa Ausschließungsgründe, sondern vielmehr Voraussetzungen, um für entsprechende Aufgaben infrage zu kommen. Was anderswo indiskutabel wäre, gilt hier als völlig normal, wenn nicht gar erforderlich.
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Day 514
Today, we remember the 35,000 innocent Ukranian Jewish men, women and children murdered in Odessa by the Nazis and their willing Romanian accomplices in late October 1941. By the following year, the Einsatzgruppen had murdered over 100,000 Ukranian Jews. During the Holocaust, there were many truly brave and wonderful people who put their own lives at risk to help European Jews escape the clutches of the Nazi monsters. Sadly, there were many others who saw this as an ideal opportunity to acquire Jewish property and possessions, leaving no witnesses. We will never forget those we lost. Their memory will remain with us, always.
Baruch Dayan HaEmet.
Likud UK
The old titty twister, must be innate with primates.
The dark and macabre fantasy themed creations of Stefan Koidl - https://www.scififantasyhorror.co.uk/the-dark-fantasy-artworks-of-stefan-koidl/