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| | Hoekstra pointed out that Germany, the US and the UK rejected the report, as well, and said that calling Israel an apartheid state does not help resolve the conflict and reach a two-state solution.</blockquote> | | Hoekstra pointed out that Germany, the US and the UK rejected the report, as well, and said that calling Israel an apartheid state does not help resolve the conflict and reach a two-state solution.</blockquote> |
| | Rejected also by Arab Party leaders in Israel <ref>[https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/731617.shtml Mansour Abbas rejects the claim that Israel is apartheid], ''Rotter'', Feb 11, 2022.</ref> and by Arab minister of radical left wing Meretz Party.<ref>[https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/733975.shtml Minister (Issawi) Frej to foreign journalists: "I am an Arab minister in the government, Israel is not an apartheid state"], ''Rotter'', Mar 2, 2022.</ref> | | Rejected also by Arab Party leaders in Israel <ref>[https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/731617.shtml Mansour Abbas rejects the claim that Israel is apartheid], ''Rotter'', Feb 11, 2022.</ref> and by Arab minister of radical left wing Meretz Party.<ref>[https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/733975.shtml Minister (Issawi) Frej to foreign journalists: "I am an Arab minister in the government, Israel is not an apartheid state"], ''Rotter'', Mar 2, 2022.</ref> |
| | + | ===Pillay=== |
| | + | When infamous virulently anti-Israel Navi Pillay, jumped on the opportunity to smear Istael under a mask of "investigating"<ref>Today Lazaroff, [https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-696436 NGO: Pillay is biased against Israel, must be ousted from UNHRC probe], ''Jerusalem Post, Feb 14, 2022</ref><ref name=ngom>[https://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/anti-israel-bias-and-ngo-links-of-unhrcs-gaza-committee-of-inquiry-members/ Anti-Israel Bias and NGO Links of UNHRC’s Gaza Commission of Inquiry Members], Ngo Monitor, February 22, 2022.</ref> (and Miloon Kothari Who lied for example on Al Jazeera in 2011<ref name=ngom/>) Her "report" was condemned by 22 nations.<ref>Utanar Eichner, [https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk11o9ysf5 U.S. condemns UN Human Rights Council over anti-Israel bias], ''Ynet'', June 13, 2022.<blockquote>Washington joined by 21 other countries in call to end disproportionate attention dedicated to Israel by humans rights body after release of report accusing Jerusalem of perpetuating conflict with Palestinians.</blockquote></ref> |
| | + | Some black South Africans who were victims of the original, South-African brand of apartheid were incensed at her charge and that 'Nelson Mandela Would Not Approve' on the smear "report."<ref>Ben Cohen, [https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/06/10/nelson-mandela-would-not-approve-south-africans-denounce-un-report-on-palestinians/ ‘Nelson Mandela Would Not Approve’: South Africans Denounce UN Report on Palestinians], ''Algemeiner'', June 10, 2022. |
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| | + | A group of pro-Israel South Africans has invoked the figure of the late Nelson Mandela, the iconic leader of their country’s anti-apartheid struggle, in a forthright condemnation of the recent UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry (COI) report that blamed Israel’s “perpetual occupation” for the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.</blockquote></ref> |
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| | + | In addition, during that very report work, what was exposed was the real apartheid - that on the Arab Palestinian side:<ref>[https://unwatch.org/palestinian-apartheid-exposed-at-u-n-inquiry/ Palestinian Apartheid Exposed at U.N. Inquiry], UN Watch, March 10, 2022.</ref> <blockquote>The report documents how the Palestinian Authority enforces a system of apartheid to ensure that every inch of territory under its control is strictly judenrein (free of Jews) by punishing Palestinian land sales to Jews with the death penalty, and by inciting the murder of Jews through financial rewards to terrorists.</blockquote> |
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| | ==Selective use of term: not in often preferential treatment to Arabs over Jews== | | ==Selective use of term: not in often preferential treatment to Arabs over Jews== |
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