A report issued by the Massachusetts-based Harvard Law School sparked outrage among Israeli officials and pro-Tel Aviv circles as it recognizes Israel as apartheid regime.
The 22-page report, titled Apartheid in the Occupied West Bank: A Legal Analysis of Israel’s Actions, was issued at the end of last February by the Center for Human Rights at Harvard Law School in cooperation with the Palestinian Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, and then submitted to the United Nations in early March.
Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, expressed his anger at the report in a tweet, describing it as “anti-Semitic” and accusing Harvard of cooperating with institutions classified on the Israeli terrorism list such as Addameer and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
“I expect Harvard to unequivocally denounce this repugnant report and hold accountable those who wrote these lies against the only democracy in the Middle East,” Erdan said.
Harvard University published an antisemitic report together with the terrorists of the PFLP, a designated terror organization in Israel, the U.S., the EU & more. 1/4 https://t.co/jFhoVoJVcr
— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) March 20, 2022
On the other hand, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) praised the Harvard report, and said on Twitter, “The truth can no longer be denied, when will the international community take action on it?”
“A center for human rights in one of the world’s greatest educational institutions says that Israel is an apartheid state, while an Israeli politician with a history of racism against Palestinians says that it is not, so who is right?” CAIR added.
Last month, Amnesty International issued a “damning” report calling for Israeli authorities to be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians
The Amnesty investigation detailed how Israel enforces a system of oppression and domination against the Palestinian people wherever it has control over their rights. This includes Palestinians living in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), as well as displaced refugees in other countries.
The international organizations Human Rights Watch and the Israeli B’Tselem have said, in two separate reports during the past year, that Israel is committing crimes of apartheid.
“Apartheid Street”
In the same context, British activists named “Apartheid Street” to the street where the Israeli embassy is located in London, as part of an event marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 20.
The event was supervised by activists in solidarity with the Palestinian people from Amnesty International in Britain and the Pal-Art group, where they hung a banner reading “Apartheid Street, W8, No Palestinians Entry”.
The activists wore T-shirts that read “End Israeli Apartheid” and performed Palestinian Dabkeh shows in the street after its was renamed.
Israeli Apartheid will be dismantled pic.twitter.com/nxwQ1phY4W
— kristyan benedict (@KreaseChan) March 20, 2022
Dear defenders of Israel's racist system of apartheid 👇🏾
Your predictable outrage at our campaign to help end Israeli apartheid has zero impact on our human rights strategy. If you were cheering us on, I'd be worried – then we truly would have "lost our way"! pic.twitter.com/CQDGd07f1g
— kristyan benedict (@KreaseChan) March 20, 2022
Racist systems like apartheid aren’t relics of the past but the reality for millions of Palestinians.
For International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we joined Palestinian activists defiantly dancing outside the Israeli embassy ✊🏽#EndIsraeliApartheid pic.twitter.com/AWuXUrhC6Y
— Amnesty UK (@AmnestyUK) March 21, 2022
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