Michael Benyair, a former Israeli Lawyer Common and a former performing choose within the Israeli Supreme Court docket, has referred to as on the worldwide neighborhood to take significant steps to finish Israel’s apartheid rule in Palestine.
Writing in the journal, Benyair mentioned he has spent a lot of his profession analysing the authorized questions regarding Israel’s occupation of the West Financial institution, Gaza and Jerusalem.
He mentioned that in his tenure he authorized the expropriation of personal Palestinian land to construct the infrastructure for the growth of settlements within the occupied territories.
It’s with nice unhappiness that I have to additionally conclude that my nation has sunk to such political and ethical depths that it’s now an apartheid regime. It’s time for the worldwide neighborhood to recognise this actuality as properly.
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He added: “Between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, it’s Israel that’s completely depriving thousands and thousands of Palestinians of their civil and political rights. That is Israeli apartheid.”
In concluding his article Benyair described the scenario on the bottom in Palestine as “an ethical abomination.”
“The delay by the worldwide neighborhood in taking significant steps to carry Israel accountable for the apartheid regime it’s perpetuating is unacceptable.”
Benyair’s remarks come lower than two weeks after Amnesty International released a report during which Israel is described as an apartheid state. Final yr, B’Tselem and Human Rights Watch got here to the identical conclusion, whereas a authorized opinion issued by Yesh Din in 2020 additionally mentioned that “the crime towards humanity of apartheid is being dedicated within the West Financial institution.”
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