The new
@amnesty
report is an important contribution: it departs from the unity of the Palestinian people & 1948, advocates for the right of return, recognises the Nakba as ethnic cleansing, centres Palestinian voices & supports Palestinian civil society facing systematic attacks
Apartheid is not just a relic of the past – it is the lived reality for millions of Palestinians today across Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
#EndIsraeliApartheid
✊
Israeli
#apartheid
is a tool of Zionist settler
#colonialism
. What does this mean & what are the origins, logic & institutions of Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people as a whole? All of this & more are discussed in our new report for
@alhaq_org
1/
Three Palestine solidarity organisers including members of
@Galway_ipsc
were detained by Gardaí this morning in a direct action attempting to block US military planes
@ShannonAirport
. One of the planes was on its way back from Lebanon, Cyprus & Egypt
#USOutOfShannon
#GazaGenocide
Speaking at our
@IrishCentreHR
annual distinguished lecture this evening
@UN_SPExperts
@FranceskAlbs
said "genocide is the apex of the annihilation of the other," a process of settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, mass killing, forcible transfer & apartheid
#NMARW24
@uniofgalway
@FranceskAlbs
reminding us that state responsibility towards Palestine is now more important than ever, not only in regards to ceasefire and an embargo on Israel, but also towards long term political solutions that ensure Palestinians’ right to self determination
@IrishCentreHR
“our history of struggle against racism &
#colonialism
make us duty-bound to be a voice for the oppressed…” Listen to the powerful statement by South Africa’s foreign minister Naledi Pandor discussing further measures against the “well-documented
#apartheid
practices of Israel”.
South Africa's foreign minister, Naledi Pandor, in parliament today, on Israel's apartheid practices.
"We hope to approach cabinet with a further proposed direct action against well-documented apartheid practices of Israel."
@PalestinePapsn
@sabdscoalition
@DIRCO_ZA
2 weeks ago
@amnesty
published a report meticulously evidencing Israeli
#apartheid
. Much has been said since including by Amnesty—little of it to do with the report.
@soheirasaad
& I look at why that is & what this tells us about the limits of legitimate discourse on
#Palestine
.
"[Amnesty] seems more preoccupied with addressing political accusations than discussing the contents of the report," write
@soheirasaad
&
@Rania_Muhareb
in this in-depth analysis of the organization's messaging around its Apartheid report.
“Boycott Israel means completely isolating the regime until settler colonialism & apartheid are dismantled– this can only happen through people power. We have to ensure our places of living, work & study are free of Israeli
#apartheid
.” A brilliant evening with
@S_jazi
in
#Galway
The study concludes that “reparations should be accorded to… Palestinian individuals, corporations & entities, for the generational harm caused by Israel’s land & property appropriations, house demolitions, pillage… denial of return & other war crimes & crimes against humanity”
📢 The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
@UNISPAL
is pleased to announce the launch of a legal study 📚 on the legality of the Israeli occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.
Today, Israeli police demolished Tariq Muhareb’s family home in
#Lydd
, displacing 11 family members. More
#demolition
orders are pending against Palestinian homes in the city, where protests erupted as part of the
#UnityIntifada
in May 2021.
1/4 On 27 May, the
@UN_HRC
will hold a special session on
#Palestine
to discuss adoption of a historic draft resolution for the establishment of a commission of inquiry into
#rootcauses
of systematic human rights violations on BOTH sides of the Green Line.
📌 New publication: in a context of growing Israeli attacks against Palestinians, we are grateful to
@PalStudies
for helping us shed further light on the
#persecution
of Palestinian civil society as part of the crime of
#apartheid
#StandWiththe6
1/6
Watch this brilliant 22-minute documentary by
@yumna_patel
@Mondoweiss
. It tells you everything you should know about Israeli
#apartheid
& its broader settler colonial context, which I argued “has served to establish apartheid & continuously maintain it”
Many thanks to
@yumna_patel
& the team at
@Mondoweiss
for producing this important forthcoming documentary on the reality of Israeli
#apartheid
over the Palestinian people. I was glad to speak to Yumna about the apartheid framework while I was in
#Palestine
last summer.
1/6 Our piece on
#censorship
has just been published by
@bmj_latest
. Bram Wispelwey, Mads Gilbert & I discuss the removal last March of our letter in
@TheLancet
on structural violence in
#Gaza
& the prevailing colonial power dynamics in academic medicine.
Human rights groups such as
@hrw
must immediately call for a
#CeasefireNOW
in
#Gaza
. What are you waiting for?
Instead
#HRW
privileges Israeli military claims & relegates the goal of protecting Palestinian lives to the sidelines
@soheirasaad
@Mondoweiss
I'm not able to write much about what's happening; it's a complete massacre. In the past few days, we witnessed death every minute. Fear is everywhere, there's no food, no drinking water, and people are displaced with nowhere to go. Solidarity has lost its meaning in the
“We have to do more.” Truly inspiring to hear
#TheShannon3
on the steps of Nenagh District Court after their release this evening. Their action was in response to a call by the Palestinian movement to end complicity in
#GazaGenocide
. They urged sanctions &
#USMilitaryOutOfShannon
1/
@hrw
has concluded that Israel maintains
#apartheid
over the Palestinian people, dominating them on both sides of the Green Line & as refugees denied their right of return. The report calls for targeted
#sanctions
& an
@IntlCrimCourt
investigation: .
“No one really cared while
#Gaza
's Palestinans were subjected to a blockade imposed by Israel that denied them the essentials of life… This moment rips off the mask & lays bare the undisguised racism that masquerades as moral concern in western capitals.” A must-read
Solidarity with
@FranceskAlbs
whose mandate as
#UN
Special Rapporteur on
#Palestine
is once again under attack as part of a concerted smear & delegitimisation campaign aimed at undermining her important human rights & accountability work.
#WeWillNotBeSilenced
Thank you to those who have expressed their solidarity after yet another politically-motivated attack against my mandate. The aim is to obscure the oppressive reality I am mandated to report on. I will not let anyone define who I am and what I stand for.
A powerful call from
@SeanMac_R
for the Irish government to support re-establishing the
#UN
Special Committee against
#Apartheid
which "for years... was shunned by most of the Western nations, who... [today] like to give the impression that they were on the right side of history"
Minister
@SimonHarrisTD
announces €28m investment in top research talent to address Ireland's current and future challenges and opportunities. A record 330 Government of Ireland early-career awards across all disciplines are being made
#LoveIrishResearch
Two historic moments this week.
#Ireland
recognises Israel's illegal settlements as de facto annexation of Palestinian land &
@UN_HRC
member states establish the first ever commission of inquiry into systematic racial discrimination on both sides of the Green Line.
#TideTurning
Thanks to
@ejiltalk
for the opportunity to contribute to the symposium on Israeli
#apartheid
. My post examines the applicability of the crime of apartheid to the Palestinian people as a whole & the need to overcome
#fragmentation
, including along the artificial
#GreenLine
.
“The BBC’s coverage this week, as in previous months and years, was not neutral, or even accurate. It was… a confidence trick - one meant to lull audiences into accepting Israeli violence as always justified and Palestinian resistance as always abhorrent.”
@Jonathan_K_Cook
My latest: There was not a 'clash' at Al-Aqsa. It is not the latest episode in a 'conflict' between Israeli and Palestinians. Those supposedly 'neutral' terms conceal what's really happening: apartheid and ethnic cleansing
“Palestinians are rightly suspicious that the bullet hole just below the edge of her metal helmet was not a 1-in-a-million chance event…
#AbuAqla
was most likely shot precisely because she was a high-profile
@AlJazeera
reporter known for her fearless reporting of Israeli crimes”
My latest: During 20 years of reporting on Israel and Palestine, I learned first-hand that Israel's version of events around the deaths of Palestinians or foreigners can never be trusted
📌Together with Denis Halliday, I was honoured to deliver a petition on behalf of
@ipsc48
today with 10,922 signatures from the public calling on the Irish government to invoke the
#GenocideConvention
& stop the genocide in
#Gaza
. Ireland has a duty to act
🧵1/5 This week
@uniofgalway
became the first in
#Ireland
to call for a permanent
#CeasefireNOW
in Gaza & for a review of ties with Israeli institutions. With
#PSS
, we warmly welcome Prof Ó hÓgartaigh's statement in support of freedom, justice & equality
"Our experiences
@alhaq_org
helped form the professional & ethical bases on which we built our understanding of the place & value of
#humanrights
& human dignity in the everyday struggle for
#justice
" Proud to join this statement by 50+ former Al-Haq staff
"People across Palestine desperately needed someone to make them feel supported & defended. Palestinians need to feel they are not paying the price alone. It is therefore hugely significant that resistance has exploded across historic Palestine." Brilliant piece!
A powerful piece by Great March of Return co-founder Ahmed Abu Artema in Gaza about why Palestinians are unifying and rallying to the cause of the resistance, even though they are paying an agonizing price.
“Israel is working… to create legal paths for making denaturalisation & thus the expulsion of 48 Palestinians possible. For 48ers, Israeli citizenship has been an instrument of sumud… It guarantees - for the most part - their continued presence in their homeland.”
@Lana_Tatour
Some thoughts on the recent ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court that determines that the state had the power to revoke the citizenship of Palestinians convicted of offences that amount to "breach of loyalty.”
Dr Hammam Alloh was a brilliant nephrologist who preferred to stay at Shifa hospital to care for his patients. He was killed along with his family, who were sheltering in a house next to the hospital after Dr. Hamam had left to check on them
#NotATarget
#MedTwitter
Go raibh maith agat
#Galway
for coming out strong in solidarity with Palestine & calling for
#CeasefireNOW
in
#Gaza
We will not stop until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea! 🇵🇸✊
The Irish government must sanction Israel & act to
#EndIsraelsGenocide
@Galway_ipsc
📌Excited to see our piece in
#Statelessness
& Citizenship Review. Osama Tanous, Bram Wispelwey & I discuss the
#health
impacts of Zionist settler colonialism on Palestinian children in
#Jerusalem
. Grateful to my amazing coauthors & wonderful team at
#SCR
.
Excited to share my latest piece with
@pearceclancy
titled “
#Palestine
and the Meaning of Domination in Settler Colonialism and Apartheid,” which was published in the latest issue of República y Derecho
@RydRevista
, the law journal of
@UNCUYO
in Argentina:
Speaking to a packed room at the
@IrishCentreHR
's distinguished lecture on South Africa's genocide case, the brilliant
@MahaAbdallah
said "the
@CIJ_ICJ
order put the entire world on notice for the risk of genocide – states, corporations, institutions & civil society"
#NMARW24
LIVE | The Republic of South Africa and the Republic of Namibia in partnership with the State of Palestine host a webinar on Justice for the Palestinian People.
#PalestineSolidaritySA
#Justice4Palestine
Int'l discourse on
#Palestine
is slowly but surely shifting. In his latest for
@LastWeekTonight
,
@iamjohnoliver
describes Israeli policies as
#apartheid
& war crimes, addresses the severe imbalance of power & highlights Palestinian killings & dispossession
One struggle.
#Ireland
is mobilising in solidarity with
#Palestine
from Galway to Sligo, Dublin, Belfast, Derry, Armagh, Dún Laoghaire, Omagh, Tralee, Buncrana, Cork, Dungannon, Letterkenny, Maynooth, Portadown, Waterford, Dungiven, Celbridge & more. Thank you
@BHRIblog
.
#Nakba73
74 Palestinian elders killed in Gaza were older than apartheid Israel. 74 elders who survived the 1948
#Nakba
& never got to see their generation return home.
#RememberTheirNames
This visual is a tribute to the first
#Nakba
survivors who are no longer with us. May their souls rest in power.
*This visual is based on those whose names and ages have been released so far by the Gaza Ministry of Health.
2/4 If adopted, this would be the first commission to investigate violations across historic
#Palestine
& "all underlying
#rootcauses
... including systematic discrimination & repression based on group identity" - encompassing
#apartheid
&
#persecution
.
A large crowd joined today’s solidarity vigil in Galway marching from the Spanish Arch to the Salmon Weir Bridge to pay tribute to 20,000+ Palestinians killed in
#GazaGenocide
. Members of Galway
@ipsc48
performed powerful music & poetry, reciting
@itranslate123
’s 'If I must die'
"Apartheid is both the outcome of Zionist settler colonization that facilitates Palestinian removal & settler implantation as well as the modal legal regime to consolidate its territorial takings." Read
@4noura
's excellent piece for
@ejiltalk
's symposium on Israeli
#apartheid
.
Thx
@ejiltalk
4 chance 2 join this roundtable on
@hrw
report. I highlight Palestinian thought:
#Zionism
is not LIKE
#apartheid
,it is its intellectual & political bedfellow. Israel did not become an apartheid regime,it is defined by
#racism
Galway
@ipsc48
collected 1,000+ signatures from the public on Shop Street in the rain & wind today on a petition calling on Ireland to invoke the
#GenocideConvention75
to stop
#GazaGenocide
. Thousands more have signed online since yesterday. Read & sign at
4/4 Get involved by signing this *petition* to support the establishment of an ongoing commission of inquiry on
#Palestine
by the
@UN_HRC
on Thursday: . See also this call to action by civil society on ways to
#SupportPalestineCOI
: .
Galway
@ipsc48
gathered in Moycullen today to deliver a petition with nearly 9,000 signatures to
@LeoVaradkar
, calling on Ireland to invoke the
#GenocideConvention
& stop
#GazaGenocide
. He drove past & refused to accept our petition. Read the press release
Huge congratulations to
@FranceskAlb
on her well-deserved appointment as
#UN
Special Rapporteur on
#Palestine
! Francesca brings with her a wealth of experience & expertise on the human rights of Palestinians, including Palestinian refugees. All the best for the coming years! 🎉
At
#HRC49
, the Human Rights Council appointed Francesca Albanese as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
INFO ▶
2 days into the now interrupted truce that gave Palestinians in
#Gaza
a moment to take in the devastation & search for their dead,
@hrw
saw fit to publish a misleading report that could only undermine Palestinians’ suffering & credibility as Israel intensifies
#GazaGenocide
1/4
Many thanks to
@yarahawari
, Nadim Bawalsa & the brilliant
@AlShabaka
team for the opportunity to contribute this policy memo on
#decolonization
in the context of international law & the Palestinian anti-
#apartheid
movement, accountability, & the importance of Palestinian unity.
3/4 Following decades of Israeli
#impunity
, civil society are calling on the
@UN_HRC
to adopt the resolution & establish this ongoing investigatory body to address Israeli settler colonialism &
#apartheid
over the Palestinian people as a whole. Read more: .
On
#LandDay
, Palestinians are urging the global solidarity movement to escalate ‘strategic & effective direct actions’ with material effect on governments to end complicity in Israel’s genocide
@BADIL_Center
The
@UN_HRC
has just adopted draft resolution A/HRC/S-30/L.1 to establish this first
#UN
commission of inquiry into human rights violations on both sides of the Green Line. The resolution was adopted with 24 votes in favour, 9 against & 14 abstentions.
#rootcauses
#accountability
HRC just adopted resolution establishing ongoing commission of inquiry to investigate alleged
#HumanRights
violations & abuses in Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, & in Israel, up to & since 13 April 2021. See as adopted text
#SS30
Many thanks to
@yumna_patel
& the team at
@Mondoweiss
for producing this important forthcoming documentary on the reality of Israeli
#apartheid
over the Palestinian people. I was glad to speak to Yumna about the apartheid framework while I was in
#Palestine
last summer.
This has been a long time in the making. It took many months, & the efforts of many dedicated individuals passionate about telling the truth about Israel’s regime. We’re calling it what it is: Apartheid.
Isam Abdeen: “The Palestinian people is rising up as one in the face of... an apartheid regime targeting the unity of the Palestinian people... Palestinians in 48 are not standing in "solidarity" with Jerusalem & Gaza, they are struggling from with the ranks of their own people."
عصام عابدين: "الشعب الفلسطيني الواحد ينتفض في مواجهة عدوان غاشم ونظام فصل عنصري يستهدف وحدة الشعب الفلسطيني، وسلطة الحكم الذاتي تكتفي ببحث "التطورات" في "القدس وغزة" لأنها تعتبر #فلسطيني_48 غرباء (أجانب) ... فلسطيني 48 لا "يتضامنون" مع #القدس و #غزة إنهم يناضلون في صفوف شعبهم."
I wrote a short piece for
@RTEBrainstorm
on
@amnesty
's strong report on
#apartheid
, detailing its significant contributions to human rights policy in
#Palestine
& some shortcomings: a failure to recognise Zionist settler colonialism & the Palestinian right to self-determination.
We argue that dismantlement of Israel’s settler colonial apartheid regime requires a
#decolonisation
praxis toward eradicating all structures of domination, exploitation & oppression in
#Palestine
& realising the Palestinian people's rights to self-determination & return 2/
After a 5-year preliminary examination, the
@IntlCrimCourt
has finally announced the opening of an
#investigation
into the situation in
#Palestine
, a critical step towards ending Israeli
#impunity
& upholding the rights & dignity of the Palestinian people subjected to
#apartheid
.
In the West Bank, “at least 82 households comprising 607 people, including 211 children, have been displaced… from more than 13 herding/Bedouin communities in Ramallah, Hebron, Bethlehem, Tubas & Nablus governorates.”
#SettlerColonialism
#FreePalestine
Forty
#Palestinians
were displaced on 9 Oct from Al Ganoub community of the
#WestBank
, after armed Israeli settlers threatened to kill them, burning two of their structures.
They are among 607 displaced in similar circumstances since 7 Oct.
Read more:
Many thanks to the wonderful researchers
@IrishCentreHR
for 2 fascinating days of presentations & discussion as part of the 21st Annual Doctoral Seminar. I presented on “(Re)Centring Settler Colonialism in the Anti-
#Apartheid
Discourse in
#Palestine
,” an aspect of my PhD project.
“The Palestinian struggle is a universal struggle against oppression and the denial of self-determination… We remain steadfast in advocating for a dignified future for the Palestinian people and the liberation of
#Palestine
from the shackles of Israel’s unlawful colonial rule.”
Palestinian Human Rights NGOs will not be Silenced, and Call on the International Community to take Concrete Actions to Rescind Barbarous Israeli Designations
1/4 On 27 May, the
@UN_HRC
will hold a special session on
#Palestine
to discuss adoption of a historic draft resolution for the establishment of a commission of inquiry into
#rootcauses
of systematic human rights violations on BOTH sides of the Green Line.
“I can sit here & tell you that they need gauze, but the reality is that the Israeli forces targeted at least 4 hospitals just this past weekend, with direct strikes”
#CeasefireNOW
Please DO LISTEN to the powerful voice of
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan from Amman, on CNN today.
The gruesome, systematic killing in Gaza that is allowed to continue surpasses human comprehension!
Stop bombing now!
This week
@ejiltalk
is running a symposium on the relevance of
#apartheid
to the plight of the Palestinian people & the recent
@hrw
report. Read the introductory post by Professor Marko Milanovic below
🧵The Home Office has conceded that the Israeli government is likely to persecute a Palestinian citizen of Israel if returned to Israel & has agreed to grant him asylum.
The decision came less than 24 hrs before a tribunal hearing at which the Home Office was to defend its
UNSR
@FranceskAlbs
's first report to
#UNGA2022
is a potent call for
#decolonization
in Palestine through "dismantling once & for all the Israeli settler-colonial occupation & its
#apartheid
practices" to realise the Palestinian right to self-determination
Amnesty’s failure to recognize apartheid within the context of settler colonialism is not only an inaccurate description of the situation on the ground, but also disregards the root cause of the denial of Palestinian rights for over a century.
From Ireland to Palestine, we underscore the indivisibility of justice & intersectionality of struggle. We refuse to be complicit in genocide. We demand that Ireland immediately sanction & impose an arms embargo on Israel & end the US military's use of
@ShannonAirport
Find out more about the report titled "Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism" during the hybrid launch event organised by
@alhaq_org
at 11 am Palestine time tomorrow, Wednesday, 30 November 2022. Register here: 3/
“We refuse to be complicit in genocide. We demand that the Irish government immediately sanction & impose an arms embargo on Israel. Ireland must not allow US weapons to be sent through its airspace & must end the US military’s use of Shannon Airport.”
#TheShannon3
#Gaza
#LandDay
Zaina, a 10-year-old Palestinian child from
#Gaza
was denied access to cancer care in Jerusalem four times last year by the Israeli occupying authorities. Denial of access to adequate healthcare is a tool of Israeli
#apartheid
over the Palestinian people. Share Zaina's story.
Zaina,10, was diagnosed with cancer in Jun 20.
🗓️From Feb-Oct 21, her family submitted 4⃣ applications for permits to visit a hospital in East Jerusalem.
❌None were approved in time.
📣Share her story
Everyone should have access to the
#health
care they need.
#HealthForAll
Today
@MedicalAidPal
launched an important position paper on systematic discrimination impacting Palestinian
#health
. It calls for an end to the fragmentation of the Palestinian people & for Palestinian voices to be heard at all policymaking levels. Read it below & share widely.
🚨 Today we (
@MedicalAidPal
) have launched a position paper detailing how systematic discrimination and fragmentation by Israel constitute key barriers to
#Palestinian
health & healthcare, leading to deepening health inequalities.
Please read and share:
"Not only was
#SuhaJarrar
a courageous and sincere human rights defender, but she was also an inspiring mentor, and warm-hearted friend, full of laughter, kindness and love. Suha touched the hearts of everyone she worked with." Read Al-Haq's beautiful tribute to Suha's work.
'Solidarity with Palestine is not just how you feel, it's what you do. It's about the future of our world.' Standing ovation at
@DrMadsGilbert
's inspirational talk
@uniofgalway
on health apartheid, evidence-based solidarity & the need to step up our activism for a
#FreePalestine
"The extension of academic
#censorship
on
#Palestine
to the medical world is, despite its pervasiveness, relatively unknown..." Read our new article titled "Permission to Narrate a
#Pandemic
in Palestine" which was published in
@MidEastPolicy
this August.
We conclude: "What Palestinians want is not “reforms” to our living conditions under the reign of
#Zionism
, but the dismantlement of its very foundations. We do not want “liberal equality”—we want decolonization, liberation, justice, & dignity."
@soheirasaad
@PalStudies
“The only explanation for this is a deep rooted & very frightening racism because you don’t do these things to people you consider your equal” -
@DrMadsGilbert
#CeasefireNOW
“If I could choose today between hell and Shifa, I would choose hell.”
@DrMadsGilbert
shares reports from colleagues in Gaza about what he calls the “systematic man-made slaughtering of patients in civilian hospitals” by Israel in this “unprecedented attack on civilian society."