Waking the World
The world is waking up - or being forced awake - to the reality of Israeli apartheid. We have seen two bombshell reports in 2021 declaring Israel to be an apartheid state, committing this crime against humanity both inside Israel itself and in the occupied Palestinian territories. Phyllis Bennis, eminent political analyst and author with extensive expertise in the Middle East, and Philip Farah, lifelong Palestinian rights activist, national organizer and speaker, discuss the substance and the implications of these apartheid charges and what they could mean for the Palestinian people’s struggle for freedom.
Phyllis Bennis, eminent political analyst and author with extensive expertise in the Middle East, and Philip Farah, lifelong Palestinian rights activist, national organizer and speaker, discuss the substance and the implications of these apartheid charges and what they could mean for the Palestinian people’s struggle for freedom.
Resources from the Call:
“Why Human Rights Watch Designating Israel's Crimes as Apartheid Is a Very Big Deal” by Phyllis Bennis
“A Day in the Life of Abed Salama” by Nathan Thrall
“Exterminate All the Brutes” Documentary on HBO
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Find four key reports on Israeli apartheid, including the latest by Human Rights Watch: It is Apartheid
“The Separate Regimes Delusion: Nathan Thrall on Israel’s apartheid” (London Review of Books)
“A Major Rights Group Says Israel Is Guilty of Apartheid. It Might Fracture the Status Quo in Washington” (Time Magazine)
“ ‘One system, one policy’: Why Human Rights Watch is charging Israel with apartheid” (+972 Magazine)
20 Minute Video and Transcript of Interview with Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch (Democracy Now)
“Human Rights Watch: Israel Is an Apartheid State” (The Nation)
Download and see the definition of Apartheid in Article II of United Nations The International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, adopted by the United Nations in 1973