UN 'Discovers' Apartheid in West Bank, Years After Human Rights Groups
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk's office has released a report detailing 'systemic discrimination' against Palestinians, leading to the headline-grabbing 'resembles apartheid' observation. While the BBC dutifully covers this, they neglect to mention this isn't exactly new; organizations like B'Tselem, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch issued similar reports years ago , unequivocally
declaring Israel an apartheid state. One might wonder why it takes the UN (and the Western media) so long to catch up to human rights realities on the ground. Israel, predictably, calls these 'absurd' accusations even as their policies of settlement expansion, movement restrictions, and differential legal systems for Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank continue unabated. Perhaps it's
'absurd' only if you ignore the facts presented by countless human rights organizations for decades, or if your primary objective is to maintain a specific narrative.