Britain-Palestine APPG online briefing: Israel & the crime of Apartheid: what is the reality for Palestinians?

The Britain-Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group hosted an online briefing on Tuesday 1 March on Israel and the crime of Apartheid: what is the reality for Palestinians? Saleh Hijazi, Head of Office and Deputy Regional Director of Amnesty International’s Regional Office in Israel/Palestine, Yasmine Ahmed, UK Director of Human Rights Watch, Aseel Baidoun, Advocacy and Communications Officer at Medical Aid for Palestinians, Nuriya Oswald, the International Legal and Advocacy Director at Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, spoke at the briefing chaired by Baroness Sayeeda War

Apartheid

Palestinians have long described the oppressive and repressive situation of brutal Israeli military occupation, blockade, and discrimination within Israeli society, in which they live, as apartheid. Such conclusions have been made by various Palestinian civil society groups, activists and others.

Global action offers a cure for Israel’s apartheid variant - Article by Chris Doyle

Global action offers a cure for Israel’s apartheid variant - Article by Chris Doyle in Arab News, 31 December 2021

 

What to make of 2021 for Palestinians and Israelis?  At many levels, huge changes have altered the political environment, yet where it counts, on the ground, the same inexorable processes have continued.

Climate Change in the Middle East after COP26, watch Caabu's Online Briefing

On 16 December 2021, Caabu hosted an online briefing on climate change in the Middle East after COP26 with Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House's Environment and Society Programme, Glada Lahn, economist and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Dr Manal Shehabi, and climate advocate and founder of SustainMENA, Shada El-Sharif.

The briefing can be watched in full here: 

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