{"id":270,"date":"2022-03-19T15:22:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/?p=270"},"modified":"2026-03-07T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:01:09","slug":"treatment-of-palestinians-by-israel-called-apartheid-by-amnesty-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/treatment-of-palestinians-by-israel-called-apartheid-by-amnesty-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Treatment of Palestinians by Israel called &#8220;Apartheid&#8221; by Amnesty International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International released their report: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/campaigns\/2022\/02\/israels-system-of-apartheid\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Israel\u2019s Apartheid Against Palestinians: a Cruel System of Domination and a Crime Against Humanity<\/a>&#8221; They now join other respected Israeli and international human rights organizations in naming Israel as an Apartheid State. \u00a0The report describes Israel&#8217;s system of oppression and domination against the Palestinian people, including seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians, and the passing of the \u201cnation state\u201d law in 2018 which enshrined Jewish supremacy over the country\u2019s Arab citizens. The report states that Palestinians under Israel control &#8220;are treated as an inferior racial group and systematically deprived of their rights. We found that Israel\u2019s cruel policies of segregation, dispossession and exclusion across all territories under its control clearly amount to apartheid. The international community has an obligation to act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"VBQAmyU1Hk\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2022\/02\/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity\/\">Israel\u2019s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Israel\u2019s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity&#8221; &#8212; Amnesty International\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2022\/02\/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity\/embed\/#?secret=oxrXlbgJpD#?secret=VBQAmyU1Hk\" data-secret=\"VBQAmyU1Hk\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International released their report: &#8220;Israel\u2019s Apartheid Against Palestinians: a Cruel System of Domination and a Crime Against Humanity&#8221; They now join other respected Israeli and international human rights organizations in naming Israel as an Apartheid State. \u00a0The report describes Israel&#8217;s system of oppression and domination against the Palestinian people, including seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians, and the passing of the \u201cnation state\u201d law&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,30,29,28],"media_type_reference":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-structural-violence","tag-amnesty-international","tag-apartheid","tag-palestine","tag-structural-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"media_type_reference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type_reference?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}