Persistent Human Rights Violations Ignored by MSM

It is up to each of us to challenge APARTHEID, wherever it may rear its ugly head.

Gaza is an "open air concentration camp" for 2 million Palestinian civilians.

(OCCUPIED PALESTINE) - The US administration has violated international law before, including use of agent orange in Vietnam and dozens of other actions. But it also funds and fully supports violators of international law and human rights.

Moving its embassy to illegally occupied Jerusalem was a violation of law while funding Israel and telling it that its annexation of the Golan and building settlements is legal is funding and supporting flagrant violations of International law and human rights.

Complicity in murder or such crimes against humanity is after all cooperation in punishable crimes.

The US also violates its own laws which prohibits funding to countries that persistently violate human rights. Israel does that regularly as reported by every credible human rights organization such as Amnesty, Physicians for Human Rights, B'Tselem, Al-Haq, UN Human Rights Commission, and Human Rights Watch.

Monday, Israel expelled the Director of HRW but continues to receive billions of our (I am also a US citizen!!) tax payer money. See: www.hrw.org/news/2019/11/25/israel-expels-human-rights-watch-director-today.

I encourage you to read the reports and act to demand it stop. It is up to each of us to challenge APARTHEID officials as recently happened at Harvard University and elsewhere, and is now happening with increasing frequency. Join us. Harvard students walked out on Israeli apartheid event. See: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191115-harvard-students-walkout-of-israel-envoy-talk.

Human rights advocate and our friend Ubai Aboudi is being held in administrative detention by the apartheid regime. Ubai Aboudi and I are members in www.scientists4palestine.com, an international organisation created by and for scientists to promote science and support the integration of the occupied Palestinian territories in the international scientific community.

Please join us and act to release Ubai Aboudi from administrative detention by the apartheid regime. See: actionnetwork.org/petitions/end-the-detention-of-ubai-aboudi, and www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/1445/2019/en/

Dissolve the PA and Embrace a One-State Solution Strategy... Now! See: www.pcpsr.org/en/node/771.

Canada has reversed its UN stance on Palestinians in break with U.S. over settlements. Tuesday's UN resolution in support of Palestinians' right to self-determination was opposed by Israel, the United States and three Pacific island nations that depend heavily on U.S. aid and tend to vote with Washington at the UN (the Marshall Islands, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia). It was supported by all other nations on earth, not just Canada. See: www.cbc.ca/news/politics/un-palestinian-vote-canada-israel-us-1.5365637.

Kairos Palestine Statement on the U.S Secretary of State legalizing settlements: Kairos Palestine expresses deep disappointment that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced in a statement -that disregards the Geneva Conventions, international law and widespread global consensus —a radical departure from U.S. policy regarding the illegal colonial activities of the State of Israel.

The Kairos conference opens this Friday in Bethlehem. See: www.kairospalestine.ps/.

In asserting that the United States will no longer deem West Bank settlements, including those in East Jerusalem, to be “inconsistent with international law,” Secretary of State Pompeo contravenes a 1978 legal opinion by the State Department.

The opinion was upheld with bipartisan support of former administrations which determined that “while Israel may undertake, in the occupied territories, actions necessary to meet its military needs and to provide for orderly government during the occupation, for reasons indicated above the establishment of the civilian settlements in those territories is inconsistent with international law.”

Secretary Pompeo went on to announce that this move by the United States should not be viewed as the U.S. “prejudging the ultimate status of the West Bank.”

Recent actions by the Trump administration belie this statement.

These actions include moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, defunding UNRWA, shuttering the Palestinians’ office in Washington, D.C., attempts to redefine who may be considered a Palestinian refugee, and embracing Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s annexation plans.

All these moves, including what to date has been revealed of the Middle East peace plan put forward by Trump’s son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner, have to be interpreted as U.S. attempts to force the capitulation of Palestinians to the will of the State of Israel.

In our holy text, the story is told of King Ahab coveting the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite (1 Kings 21). When Naboth refuses the king’s offer to purchase the land which Naboth describes as his “ancestral inheritance”, a plot is launched in the king’s household to take the land by force. A false charge is made against Naboth, which leads to his being stoned to death, after which King Ahab sets out to take possession of Naboth’s vineyard.

In the same way that the Lord instructed the Prophet Elijah to intervene and confront the king, Kairos Palestine asks its partners—people of faith and those of good will—to call on leaders of the U.S. government to reexamine its failed role as a facilitator of peace between Israel and Palestinians.

Secretary of State Pompeo and the government of the United States must understand that God’s community of justice, peace and provision for all—coming on earth as it is in heaven—may be delayed but will not be denied.

As stated in the document, Kairos Palestine: A Moment of Truth, “In the absence of all hope, we cry out our cry of hope. We believe in God, good and just. We believe that God’s goodness will finally triumph over the evil and hate and of death that still persist in our land. We will see here ‘a new land’ and ‘a new human being’, capable of rising up in the spirit to love each one of his or her brothers and sisters.”

Stay Human and come visit us in Palestine.