Monday Jul 22, 2024

Israel's Apartheid Policies within the green line

In episode number 5 of the podcast "Forty-Eight," we hosted Salah Hijazi. Saleh Hijazi is the Apartheid-Free Policy Coordinator at the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the leadership of the global nonviolent movement working to end complicity with and towards dismantling Israel’s settler-colonialism, military occupation, and apartheid. Before joining the BNC movement Saleh spent 11 years at Amnesty International, most recently as MENA Deputy Regional Director, and was co-author of the organization’s report “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity”.

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We began the conversation by defining the concept itself and discussing how apartheid functions. From there, we moved on to the details of Israeli policy towards the Palestinian people as a whole and how Israeli policy shapes and impacts all Palestinians, including refugees who are prevented from returning to their homes despite UN resolutions.

However, the main focus of this episode was on Palestinian citizens of Israel and how, despite being citizens of the state, the policies, laws, and daily actions of the state also subject them to an apartheid regime that views Jewish citizens as superior to non-Jewish citizens.

Hosted by : Abed Abou Shhadeh