Thread by @elderofziyon

I just re-looked at @HRW's argument that Israel is guilty of apartheid, and I discovered how Human Rights Watch purposefully twists international law. I'll post the details Sunday, but here is the gist of it.
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@hrw All the major laws (Apartheid Convention, Rome Statute) that define apartheid use the words "domination by one racial group over any other racial group." HRW needs to expand that nto "national" group to apply to Palestinians. (Calling Jews a race is not a good look.)
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@hrw So @HRW points to a different convention for its definition. The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) says “racial discrimination” as "based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin."
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@hrw Based on ICERD's definition, HRW says that Israel discriminates against Palestnians as a national group and therefore is guilty of the crime of apartheid.
But they didn't quote all of ICERD.
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@hrw The very next paragraph of ICERD says "This Convention shall not apply to distinctions, exclusions, restrictions or preferences made by a State Party to this Convention BETWEEN CITIZENS AND NON-CITIZENS."
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@hrw HRW deliberately omitted that part of the ICERD definition because it demolishes their arguments. Israel doesn't distinguish between Jew and Arab, it distinguishes between citizen and non-citizen - like EVERY OTHER COUNTRY.
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@hrw This is not an oversight. This was a mendacious misquote of international law by HRW to specifically and deliberately attack the Jewish state. It is clear proof of HRW's antisemitism to twist international law against only Israel.
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