| | Shakir was hired in 2016, after a number of years as a campus activist under headings like ”Apartheid IsReal.” He led HRW’s (failed) effort to press Airbnb and the FIFA soccer association to join the anti-Israel boycott, and repeatedly invokes “apartheid” and “racism” when discussing Israel. For Shakir, who left Israel after his work visa was not renewed and a lengthy court battle, this is revenge propaganda.</blockquote></ref> has also promoted it, abusing the [[HRW]] platform.<ref>[https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/human-rights-watch-israel-apartheid-report-condemned-as-fiction-1.516093 Human Rights Watch 'Israel apartheid' report condemned as 'fiction'], Mathilde Frot, The JC, | | Shakir was hired in 2016, after a number of years as a campus activist under headings like ”Apartheid IsReal.” He led HRW’s (failed) effort to press Airbnb and the FIFA soccer association to join the anti-Israel boycott, and repeatedly invokes “apartheid” and “racism” when discussing Israel. For Shakir, who left Israel after his work visa was not renewed and a lengthy court battle, this is revenge propaganda.</blockquote></ref> has also promoted it, abusing the [[HRW]] platform.<ref>[https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/human-rights-watch-israel-apartheid-report-condemned-as-fiction-1.516093 Human Rights Watch 'Israel apartheid' report condemned as 'fiction'], Mathilde Frot, The JC, |
| − | Apr 27, 2021. ''Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl said the report was a "sham which puts rhetoric above fact." "They consistently ignore or downplay the fact that Israel’s security measures in the West Bank and around Gaza are the response to well-documented terror activities. The ridiculous ‘apartheid‘ slur in this report is belied by the fact that, as it stands, Israel’s next Government may well rely on the support of Arab parties, voted for by the country’s fully-enfranchised Arab citizens. "Israel’s Arab citizens have been appointed as ambassadors, professors, Supreme Court judges, hospital directors, and other key roles throughout Israel’s socio-economic landscape. Civil society organisations should be directing their efforts towards reinvigorating the peace process, not trading in false hyperbole that extends the cycle of conflict," she said. NGO Monitor president Professor Gerald Steinberg, also criticised the report writing in the Jerusalem Post that it comprised "the standard mix of shrill propaganda, false allegations and legal fictions." "Exploiting the 'apartheid' image for propaganda is a cynical appropriation of the suffering of the victims of the actual apartheid regime"..''</ref> A "report" full of distortions.<ref name=ajc/> A hatchet job, ''while promising “detailed legal analysis” of the apartheid charge, HRW actually proved Israel’s innocence.''<ref>[https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/336519/israel-apartheid-the-big-black-and-white-lie/ Israel Apartheid: The Big Black-and-White Lie], G. Troy, JJ, May 12, 2021</ref> | + | Apr 27, 2021. ''Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl said the report was a "sham which puts rhetoric above fact." "They consistently ignore or downplay the fact that Israel’s security measures in the West Bank and around Gaza are the response to well-documented terror activities. The ridiculous ‘apartheid‘ slur in this report is belied by the fact that, as it stands, Israel’s next Government may well rely on the support of Arab parties, voted for by the country’s fully-enfranchised Arab citizens. "Israel’s Arab citizens have been appointed as ambassadors, professors, Supreme Court judges, hospital directors, and other key roles throughout Israel’s socio-economic landscape. Civil society organisations should be directing their efforts towards reinvigorating the peace process, not trading in false hyperbole that extends the cycle of conflict," she said. NGO Monitor president Professor Gerald Steinberg, also criticised the report writing in the Jerusalem Post that it comprised "the standard mix of shrill propaganda, false allegations and legal fictions." "Exploiting the 'apartheid' image for propaganda is a cynical appropriation of the suffering of the victims of the actual apartheid regime"..''</ref> A "report" full of distortions.<ref name=ajc/> A hatchet job, ''while promising “detailed legal analysis” of the apartheid charge, HRW actually proved Israel’s innocence.''<ref>[https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/336519/israel-apartheid-the-big-black-and-white-lie/ Israel Apartheid: The Big Black-and-White Lie], G. Troy, JJ, May 12, 2021</ref> The "report" is baseless, but HRW knows that.<ref>David M. Litman, "[https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/04/28/the-apartheid-smear-antisemitism-and-the-unending-battle-to-destroy-the-jewish-state/ The ‘Apartheid’ Smear, Antisemitism and the Unending Battle to Destroy the Jewish State]", Algemeiner, April 28, 2021.<br> |
| | Despite knowing fully well, Omar Shakir, who resided in the area before being Estelle for BDS hate propaganda that most Israelis are 'brown ' he chose (in his debunked slur doc) to portray in an imAoeil-2021), in an image, to portray Israelis as "all White" and the Arab Palestinians a p.o.c.<ref name=stopantisemitism/> | | Despite knowing fully well, Omar Shakir, who resided in the area before being Estelle for BDS hate propaganda that most Israelis are 'brown ' he chose (in his debunked slur doc) to portray in an imAoeil-2021), in an image, to portray Israelis as "all White" and the Arab Palestinians a p.o.c.<ref name=stopantisemitism/> |