Why Israel Calls Human Rights ‘Terrorism’
JVL Introduction
Raja Shehadeh is well-known to audiences in the UK for his brilliant writings on Palestine under occupation.
His Palestine Walks won the Orwell Prize in 2008 and is published here, like many other of his books, by Profile Books.
He was also founder of Al-Haq, Palestine’s premier human rights organisation, back in 1979.
It has now, ludicrously, been declared by Israel to be one of six “terrorist” organisations operating in Palestine.
Here Shehadeh explains to the New York Review of Books why he “a lifelong resident of Ramallah, [will not] cease my support for it, whatever the consequences”.
This article was originally published by New York Review of Books on Wed 27 Oct 2021. Read the original here.
Why Israel Calls Human Rights ‘Terrorism’
In a widely condemned move, the Israeli government has banned the group I founded. This is how it enforces impunity for its illegal policies of occupation.
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Why is the US so slow to recognise wrongdoing, my guess is they the US feel that is power is slipping away from them and any measures that slow this inevitable progress will be adopted.
goodness why is the media and courageous reports not confronting this. In fact all of the nonsense about about the wrong kind of Jew. ? is there a media block on this so that people are afraid to raise their heads above the wall.
The Israeli Labor Party is a member of the coalition. Any comment from the Jewish Labour Movement, the Labour Friends of Israel and Lisa Nandy?
Israel knows it can get away with these monsterous acts because it has the backing of the USA. The USA criminalised the collection of charitable donations to Palestine on the grounds that helping Palestinians would relieve Hamas of it’s community support function thereby allowing it to spend on weapons. Ordinary Palestinian family men in the USA were jailed for up to sixtyfive years on trumped up charges of supporting terrorism.
How can we help?
These are the tactics of Russia and China, solidarity with your just cause Raja.
It is not just Israel that will falsely call human rights terrorism, it is the entire ‘billionaire owned ‘Western Media’.
I support Al-Haq. For Linda P – why do you trry and attack Russia and China.
The patron of the Zionist regime is the USA. And supporting this type of illegitimate activity is an everyday action by that imperialist power.