Amnesty International has concluded that Israel’s actions towards the Palestinians amount “to an institutionalized regime of oppression and domination defined as apartheid under international law.” The Human Rights Watch agrees with this assessment.
Israel’s apartheid regime showed their oppression towards Palestinians during Ramadan. Ramadan is the sacred Islamic month, during which, coincidentally, Israeli soldiers have annually stormed and interrupted the grounds of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Shortly after Ramadan, Israeli soldiers shot and killed Palestinian American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, while she was wearing a press vest.
You should have been outraged when Israeli soldiers interrupted Abu Akleh’s funeral. They felt the need to abuse pallbearers and pull down Palestinian flags present during her funeral, yet the United States remained silent. Even in death, Palestinians are prohibited to mourn or rest. The United States immediately blamed Russia for American journalist Bred Renaud’s death in Ukraine in March, yet brushed off American journalist Abu Akleh by labeling her death as “unintentional.” This is why you should have been outraged.
I write this because institutions in the United States refuse to condemn Israel’s oppression of Palestine. The U.S. is complicit in this oppression, since Israel’s demolition, occupation and invasion of Palestinian land is backed by the U.S. dollar. Government officials from every recent administration, regardless of political...
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