Thread by @BDSmovement

Former Honduran President, Juan Hernández, “poster boy” of Israeli diplomacy, is charged with sponsoring a “corrupt & violent drug-trafficking conspiracy.”

🧵Let's explore the deadly links between Hernández’s regime and apartheid Israel.

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Apartheid Israel propped up Hernández's ruthless regime with weapons, military training & access to the Trump White House. In return, Honduras voted against Palestinian rights at the @UN & agreed to move its embassy to occupied Jerusalem.

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Israeli-armed Honduran forces were implicated in the “torture, rape, … kidnappings & killings of journalists, students, opposition activists, … activists on behalf of farmers’ rights, homeless rights, & indigenous communities’ rights.”

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Hernández first received training by the Israeli government in 1992, preparing him for power many years later. Honduras under his rule was considered “the deadliest country in the world for environmental activism.”

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Still, apartheid Israel praised the two countries’ “shared values based on democracy, human rights, respect for the rule of law … and aspirations for peace.”

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Honduras is one example of apartheid Israel’s real impact across the Global South–supporting dictatorships and authoritarian regimes & aggravating brutal repression, corruption, war crimes, and genocide (as in Rwanda and Myanmar).

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It’s high time for imposing targeted, lawful sanctions to #DismantleApartheid, starting with a comprehensive #MilitaryEmbargo. This is not just for the sake of Palestinians, but also for humanity’s sake.

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