UN Calls West Bank 'Apartheid,' US Media Asks 'Who's Asking?'
While Al Jazeera highlights Turk's 'first time' pronouncement, they fail to connect it to decades of reports from human rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, which have detailed Israeli apartheid policies for years. This isn't a new revelation; it's just the UN finally catching up to the overwhelming evidence. The silence from major US networks is deafening, perhaps
because acknowledging 'apartheid' makes it harder to justify the $3.8 billion in annual, unconditional aid the US provides to Israel. How many reports, resolutions, and UN condemnations will it take before American lawmakers, bankrolled by organizations like AIPAC (which funneled $27.3 million to US candidates in 2022, according to OpenSecrets), actually acknowledge the reality on the ground? One
might almost think that calling it 'apartheid' might disrupt the comfortable narrative that ensures continued funding. What’s next, a 'two-state solution' that includes equal rights?