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Landmark UN Report Backs «Israel» Boycott

Landmark UN Report Backs «Israel» Boycott
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A recent UN report offers explicit backing for the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions [BDS] campaign to end "Israeli" apartheid and support a just peace.

Landmark UN Report Backs «Israel» Boycott

The landmark report's endorsement of boycotts, economic sanctions and other grassroots initiatives comes at a moment when "Israel" is desperately attempting to criminalize and suppress international support for Palestinian rights.

Published by the UN's Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia [ESCWA], the report concludes that "‘Israel' has established an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole."

It finds "beyond a reasonable doubt that ‘Israel' is guilty of policies and practices that constitute the crimes of apartheid" as defined in international law.

It urges national governments to "support boycott, divestment and sanctions activities and respond positively to calls for such initiatives."

The UN report - "Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid" - is not a comparison between "Israel" and apartheid South Africa, but an evaluation of "Israel's" practices against the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid and other key human rights laws.

The convention defines the crime of apartheid as "inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them."

International law defines racial discrimination to mean "any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, color, descent or ethnic or national origin," the report notes.

The Zionist movement's "claim to Palestine as the exclusive homeland of the Jewish people rests on an expressly racial conception of both groups," the report states. "This means that Jews and Palestinians are ‘racial groups' " for the purposes of applying the apartheid convention.

"The mission of preserving ‘Israel' as a Jewish ‘state' has inspired or even compelled ‘Israel' to pursue several general racial policies," the report said.

These include "demographic engineering, in order to establish and maintain an overwhelming Jewish majority in ‘Israel'."

This encompasses the ethnic cleansing of almost 800,000 Palestinians in 1948, the denial of the right of return for Palestinian refugees and "a range of other policies designed to restrict the size of the Palestinian population."

Meanwhile, the "Israeli" entity's discriminatory "Law of Return" automatically grants citizenship to Jews from anywhere in the world, "while denying citizenship even to those Palestinians who have a documented history of residency in the country."

Source: Electronic Intifada, Edited by website team

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