On 27 April 2021, Human Rights Watch (HRW) launched its report “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution”. In introducing the report, HRW writes:
“Across these areas and in most aspects of life, Israeli authorities methodically privilege Jewish Israelis and discriminate against Palestinians. Laws, policies, and statements by leading Israeli officials make plain that the objective of maintaining Jewish Israeli control over demographics, political power, and land has long guided government policy. In pursuit of this goal, authorities have dispossessed, confined, forcibly separated, and subjugated Palestinians by virtue of their identity to varying degrees of intensity. In certain areas, as described in this report, these deprivations are so severe that they amount to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.”
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Anis Kassim is an international lawyer based in Amman and a board member of Law for Palestine. He holds an SJD from George Washington University and has served as editorial advisor to the Palestine Yearbook of International Law, which he edited from 1984 to 2000. He was a member of the Palestinian defense team in the case against the separation wall at the International Court of Justice, resulting in the July 2004 Advisory Opinion affirming its illegality, and served as legal adviser to the Palestinian delegation in the Madrid and Washington peace negotiations from 1991 to 1993.
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