Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
15 March
UN SUPPRESSES KEY 2017 REPORT ON ISRAELI APARTHEID
On this day in 2017, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) launched its 'Report on Israeli Practices Towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid'. It concluded that Israel operated throughout the entire area of Palestine a system of apartheid that constitutes the international crime of apartheid. Prof Richard Falk, the main author, was on an SPSC speaking tour when the Report was published. The US exerted maximum pressure on UN Secretary General Gutierrez to suppress it.
عملت الأمم المتحدة على طمس التقريرالرئيسي لعام 2017 بشأن اسرائيل والتطهير العرقي
15 مارس
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2017 ، أطلقت لجنة الأمم المتحدة الاقتصادية والاجتماعية لغرب آسيا تقريرها حول الممارسات الإسرائيلية تجاه الشعب الفلسطيني ومسألة الفصل العنصري. وخلص إلى أن إسرائيل عملت في جميع أنحاء فلسطين بنظام الفصل العنصري الذي يشكل جريمة الفصل العنصري الدولية. كان البروفيسور ريتشارد فولك ، المؤلف الرئيسي ، في جولة القاء ندوات في مركز حملة التضامن الاسكتلندية مع فلسطين عندما تم نشر التقرير. مارست الولايات المتحدة أقصى قدر من الضغط على الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة جوتيريز لطمس التقرير
UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the ESCWA, Rima Khalaf, pointed out...
It is not an easy matter for a United Nations entity to conclude that a State has established an apartheid regime. In recent years, some have labelled Israeli practices as racist, while others have warned that Israel risks becoming an apartheid State. A few have raised the question as to whether in fact it already has.
Khalaf noted that Israel, encouraged by the international community’s disregard for its continual violations of international law, has succeeded over the past decades in imposing and maintaining an apartheid regime that works on two levels. First, the political and geographic fragmentation of the Palestinian people which enfeebles their capacity for resistance and makes it almost impossible for them to change the reality on the ground. Secondly, the oppression of all Palestinians through an array of laws, policies and practices that ensure domination of them by a racial group and serve to maintain the regime.
The significance of the report - Ben White, author of Israeli Apartheid, A Beginner's Guide.