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Arab-American [[Omar Shakir]]<ref>[https://canarymission.org/individual/Omar_Shakir canary Mission - Omar Shakir]</ref> has been active against Israel since he was a student.

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Shakir led boycott campaigns at Georgetown University and Stanford, and his 2010 event during "Israel Apartheid [sic] Week" was headlined "Apartheid [sic] Is Real.''<ref name=book-challenging/>

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On February 26, 2015, Shakir tweeted: "'Gaza is not just a 'kind of' concentration camp, it's the hood on steroids.'

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In April 2016 Shakir implied South African apartheid idea back to 1948.<ref name=canary-omarshakir>[https://canarymission.org/individual/Omar_Shakir Omar Shakir], Canary.<blockquote>

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On [https://archive.is/OXH0h April 21, 2016], Shakir, then a legal fellow for CCR, spoke on "BDS: Context and Challenges" at the Jerusalem Fund & Palestine Center in Washington, D.C. During his remarks at the event, Shakir compared [16:18] Zionism to South African apartheid and said [00:17:28] "If you replace those terms with Zionists, it’s a very similar logic to what’s led to the creation of the State of Israel and the maintenance of the occupation."

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Shakir quoted [00:18:20] from a 1976 South African publication called “Apartheid South Africa,”...

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On February 26, 2015, Shakir tweeted: "'Gaza is not just a 'kind of' concentration camp, it's the hood on steroids' @CornelWest tells Stanford's @palumboliu."</blockquote></ref>

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In that year, In 2016, HRW increased its BDS emphasis, and hired Omar Shakir, an experienced activist, as its "Israel/Palestine director." At HRW, Shakir led BDS campaigns.<ref name=book-challenging>Challenging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement: 20 Years of Responding to Anti-Israel Campaigns. N.p.: Taylor & Francis, 2023. [https://books.google.com/books?id=RGOoEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT97].<blockquote>

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In 2016, HRW increased its BDS emphasis, and hired Omar Shakir, an experienced activist, as its "Israel/Palestine director." Shakir led boycott campaigns at Georgetown University and Stanford, and his 2010 event during “Israel Apartheid [sic] Week” was headlined “Apartheid [sic] Is Real.” At HRW, Shakir led campaigns targeting Israeli banks..._/blockquote></ref>

From a 2010 Arab report,<ref>"BDS in the USA, 2001-2010." Noura Erakat In: 255 (Summer 2010)</ref> he struggled with applying the "apartheid" label on Israel because conditions are not the same as [[South Africa]], such as Arabs in Israel actually do have voting rights.

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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>

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>

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==Navi 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 already 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>

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