Thread by @OmarSShakir

With today’s landmark @amnesty report, Israeli apartheid is now a matter of wall-to-wall consensus. As more & more recognize reality for what it is, our challenge is to take action to change it & #EndIsraeliApartheid 1/10

https://twitter.com/amnesty/status/1488439916828704769

Amnesty thoroughly exposes a “system which operates w varying levels of intensity & repression based on Palestinians’ status in the separate enclaves where [they] live.. but ultimately seeks to establish & maintain Jewish hegemony wherever Israel exercises effective control” 2/10

Amnesty’s findings echo those of leading Palestinian & Israeli rights orgs, @hrw & others: that Israeli govt committing the crime of apartheid against millions of Palestinians & that int’l community should end complicity & hold perpetrators to account 3/10

https://twitter.com/OmarSShakir/status/1386894111135911939?s=20&t=Z4o2rs05usYPXy4tg_B4Rw

Israeli gov & its supporters lashing out bc they failed over months to challenge the apartheid finding on the merits. So they've coordinated attack on Amnesty. But no amount of shrieking & name-calling can block those of integrity from denying what’s plainly in front of them 4/10

They name call bc they can't justify why Israel in West Bank subjects Palestinians to draconian military rule while applying civil law to Jewish Israelis living in illegal settlements there, enforces segregation & plunders land/resources from Palestinians to give to settlers 5/10

They name call bc they can’t justify why Israel in East Jerusalem maintains separate sets of rules for Jewish Israelis & Palestinians—eg guaranteeing residency rights to Jewish Israelis, but providing conditional, revocable residency status for largely stateless Palestinians 6/10

They name call bc they can’t justify why Israel turned the 25x7 mile (40by11 KM) Gaza Strip into an open-air prison, imposing a generalized travel ban that robs 2+ million Palestinians w few exceptions of their freedom of movement & severely restricting entry/exit of goods 7/10

They name call bc they can’t justify why Israel refuses to recognize or connect dozens of Palestinian Bedouin communities in the Negev to basic infrastructure & makes it impossible for their 90K+ residents to live lawfully in their homes, which they regularly raze 8/10

They name call bc they can't justify why Israel denies millions of Palestinians forced from their homes & their descendants languishing in refugee camps nearby from returning home, while allowing Jewish citizens aboard to move to Israel & automatically gain citizenship 9/10

These policies—which grant Jewish Israelis the same rights & privileges wherever they live & deny millions of Palestinians their basic rights wherever they live based on who they are—reflect system designed to privilege one people at expense of another. #EndIsraeliApartheid 10/10