Thread by @NathanThrall

Before the world ends apartheid, it first has to name it, and this rigorous 200+ page report by @HRW has done so in a way that is impossible to refute. A historic document, representing a major shift by the world's leading human rights organization. 1/9

.@HRW found that Israel's "policy is to maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians across Israel and the occupied territory." 2/9
#Courage2FightApartheid

hrw.org/node/378469

.@HRW: In the West Bank, Israeli apartheid includes "severe repression" and "the imposition of draconian military rule on Palestinians while affording Jewish Israelis living in a segregated manner in the same territory their full rights under Israel’s rights-respecting civil law"

.@HRW: "To maintain domination, Israeli authorities systematically discriminate against Palestinians. The institutional discrimination that Palestinian citizens of Israel face includes laws that allow hundreds of small Jewish towns to effectively exclude Palestinians." 4/9

.@HRW: "In Jerusalem, the government’s plan for the municipality, including both the west and occupied east parts of the city, sets the goal of 'maintaining a solid Jewish majority in the city' and even specifies the demographic ratios it hopes to maintain." 5/9

.@HRW: "A Jewish citizen of any country who has never been to Israel can move there or to a settlement and automatically gain citizenship, while a Palestinian refugee expelled from his home and languishing for more than 70 years in a refugee camp in a nearby country cannot." 6/9

.@HRW: "Every day a person is born in Gaza into an open-air prison, in the West Bank without civil rights, in Israel with an inferior status by law, and in neighboring countries effectively condemned to lifelong refugee status, solely because they are Palestinian and not Jewish."

.@HRW: All states must "condition arms sales & military assistance" & "Impose targeted sanctions, including travel bans and asset freezes, against officials and entities responsible for the continued commission of grave international crimes, including apartheid & persecution."8/9

.@HRW builds on the work of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Russell Tribunal, @UNESCWA, & leading human rights orgs, Palestinian (@alhaq_org @pchrgaza @AlMezanCenter @BADIL_Center @Addameer) & Israeli (@Btselem @BtSIsrael @YeshDin @PHR_IL). 9/9