Amnesty Says ICC Israel Probe Should Include 'Crime Against Humanity of Apartheid'

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/25/amnesty-says-icc-israel-probe-should-include-crime-against-humanity-apartheid

Amnesty Says ICC Israel Probe Should Include 'Crime Against Humanity of Apartheid'

"Israel's apartheid remains the root cause of Palestinians' suffering," said the group.

JULIA CONLEY
October 25, 2022

Calling for the International Criminal Court to open a new investigation into possible war crimes by Israeli military forces in Gaza in August, Amnesty International on Tuesday said the court must also include Israel's illegal apartheid policies against the Occupied Palestinian Territories in its probe.

"As well as investigating war crimes committed in Gaza, the ICC should consider the crime against humanity of apartheid within its current investigation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories."

The organization's call centered on the three-day offensive launched by Israel between August 5-8 in the Gaza Strip, with advocates saying its research suggests three specific attacks could amount to war crimes.

Seventeen civilians were among the 49 Palestinian people who were killed by Israeli forces during the offensive, while seven were determined to have been killed by Palestinian rockets that were likely misfired. The group could not determine which side was responsible for the deaths of seven other civilians.

Amnesty noted that Israel, which claimed the attacks were "preemptive" and targeted the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization, has set the stage for such deadly assaults on civilians for years by imposing a blockade and other apartheid policies on Gaza.

"These violations were perpetrated in the context of Israel's ongoing illegal blockade on Gaza, which is a key tool of its apartheid regime," said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International's secretary general, in a statement. "Palestinians in Gaza are dominated, oppressed, and segregated, trapped in a 15-year nightmare where recurrent unlawful attacks punctuate a worsening humanitarian crisis."

"As well as investigating war crimes committed in Gaza, the ICC should consider the crime against humanity of apartheid within its current investigation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories," Callamard added.

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[Beastly Boy]

1. How does this even make grammatic sense?

Obviously, no one connected to this Amnesty statement ever bothered to look up the legal definition of apartheid given in the Rome Statute by International Criminal Court (https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/rome-statute-international-criminal-court , Article 7, Paragraph 2 (h)), or the internationally recognized definition of apartheid contained in UNGA's International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/1976/07/19760718%2003-04%20AM/Ch_IV_7p.pdf , Article 2, Page 7),

Were anyone at Amnesty curious enough about these authoritative sources, they may have even learned that both of these sources make a clear and deliberate distinction between apartheid and racial, or any other kind of, discrimination.

And were they a bit less zealous in making themselves sound as ominous as possible, they may have even taken a bit more time to compose their accusation in a less grammatically awkward manner.

[sabbat hunter]

2. Amnesty international

Has a whole slew of its own problems. It never has called out the PA for oppressing its own people. Blamed Ukraine for the deaths of their own civilians that Russia targeted. Those are just to name a few.

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3. Ever heard of B'Tselem ?

B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories strives for a future in which human rights, liberty and equality are guaranteed to all people, Palestinian and Jewish alike, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Such a future will only be possible when the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime end. That is the future we are working towards. B’Tselem (in Hebrew literally: in the image of), the name chosen for the organization by the late Member of Knesset Yossi Sarid, is an allusion to Genesis 1:27: “And God created humankind in His image. In the image of God did He create them.” The name expresses the universal and Jewish moral edict to respect and uphold the human rights of all people.

Source : https://www.btselem.org/about_btselem

Board Members :

Chair: Orly Noy, left-wing Mizrahi activist, writer and editor on the web-based blog magazine +972, translates Farsi poetry and prose into Hebrew.

Thair Abu Rass, Political science PhD candidate, University of Maryland.

Meir Amor, Professor of Sociology, Concordia University, Canada.

Smadar Ben Natan, attorney and political activist. Specializes in human rights and criminal law. A founding member of Gun-Free Kitchen Tables, a feminist project aimed at minimizing the number of guns in the public sphere.

Ido Blum, attorney, partner at a law firm specializing in administrative and public law.

Ron Dudai, sociologist. His research interests are human rights, political violence and punishment; is co-editor of the Journal of Human Rights Practice.

Elias Khouri, attorney in private practice who specializes in real-estate law and administrative law.

Vered Madar, academic folklorist; teaches at the Keshet School, Jerusalem.

Osama Tanous, pediatrician and public health and health policy researcher.

Attorney Sawsan Zaher, human rights lawyer and former deputy general director at Adalah- The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.

David Zonsheine, Senior high-tech executive for the past twenty years. Active in business development and works at integrating Arab society into Israeli high-tech. Initiated the iChange plan for increasing the number of Arab faculty members in the scientific disciplines in Israeli universities. Writes op-eds and literary reviews for Israeli daily Haaretz.

Public Council :

Adv. Hussein Abu Hussein

Chava Alberstein

Gila Almagor-Agmon

Nora Grinberg

David Grossman

Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem

Prof. Ariel Hirschfeld

Rona Kenan

Makram Khoury

Clara Khoury

Miki Kratsman

Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer

Prof. David Kretzmer

Dr. Alon Liel

Prof. Avishai Margalit

Rivka Michaeli

Amal Murkus

Rabbi David Rosen

Prof. Yigal Schwartz

Prof. Alice Shalvi

Prof. Sammy Smooha

David Tartakover

Prof. Neta Ziv

B'Tselem cherishes the memory of public council members who have passed away :

Ruth Dayan

Aluf Hareven

Ronit Matalon

Prof. Sasson Somekhn

Amos Oz

Dani Karavan

Victor Shem-Tov

Abraham B. Yehoshua


You have to recognize some of these names nu ???
At least David Grossman, Ruth Dayan ,Amos Oz and Abraham B. Yehoshua ???

If you guys think you know better then I suggest you come see for yourselves .