Oppression Begets Violence: Listen to the Shunned – Joharah Baker
- Report by UN investigator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the UN Human Rights Council, John Dugard slams Israel
- Draws parallels between Israel and apartheid South Africa. (Dugard is South African)
- Palestinian violence committed in the course of a war of national liberation against colonialism, apartheid or military occupation is “a painful but inevitable consequence of colonialism, apartheid or occupation”
- 2001, South African lawyer Dugard issued a report criticizing Israel’s violations of human rights. Israel and the United States brushed off the report
- 2006 Israel refused to allow Dugard to head a UN-mandated fact finding mission in Gaza to investigate Israel’s military invasion there.
- Dugard persona non grata in Israel
- 2006 – Jimmy Carter’s book, “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid” generated tidal waves of protest from Israel and its supporters…Fourteen members of the Carter Center board – a human rights organization headed by the former US president – resigned in protest of the book, saying it focused on criticism of Israeli policy.
- Even pro-Israeli Japanese Prime Minister uneasy with Israel:
“We believe it is important that the commitments in the road map be implemented immediately, including improvement of security measures and dismantling settlement outposts by the Israeli side,” Fukuda wrote. - Israel has refused to attend next month’s UN conference on racism, or Durban II, accusing the last conference of being a platform for anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity
Full article at Palestine Chronicle
