The Liberal Agenda – Protest Rally in Auckland this Saturday June 18 – Doc Edge helping Israel “Art Washing” Wiping Palestine off the Map

Doc Edge accepts sponsorship from the racist, apartheid state of Israel for this documentary. They are helping Israel to “art-wash” its occupation and brutal oppression of Palestinians.

The Management and Board of Doc Edge Refused to remove the logo.

Therefore, the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa will protest at the screening of the documentary in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

The Auckland rally is:

• Saturday June 18
• 1:30 – 3:00 pm
• Capital Theatre – 610 Dominion Road, Balmoral, Auckland

See the map below.

There has been a lot of discussion around Israeli Apartheid over the last year.

Many Pro-Israel supporters say that they don’t “Believe” or don’t “Think” that Israel is an Apartheid state. That Israel does not look like South Africa.

Apartheid has a definition which is Not dependent on South African Apartheid. It sits alone as a Legal Definition. And as such, South African and Israeli Apartheid (and others) fit within that definition.

We have to note that there is an International definition of Apartheid.

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

• Rome Statute – Article 7 – Crimes against Humanity, item 1) j
• https://www.icc-cpi.int/resource-library/documents/rs-eng.pdf

1973 Apartheid Convention

• https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.10_International%20Convention%20on%20the%20Suppression%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Apartheid.pdf

And that there are Eight reports published over the last Two years alone which detail Israeli Apartheid.

One each from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. Two of them from Israeli Human Rights organisations.

So, although Israeli Apartheid does not “look” like South African Apartheid, the facts show that Israel Does practise Apartheid.

Reports on Israeli Apartheid

2022 – United Nations Human Rights Council – 49^th Session

• Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
• https://www.un.org/unispal/document/report-of-the-special-rapporteur-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-the-palestinian-territories-occupied-since-1967-report-a-hrc-49-87-advance-unedited-version/

2022 – Harvard Law School & Addameer

• Apartheid in the Occupied West Bank: A Legal Analysis of Israel’s Actions
• https://www.addameer.org/sites/default/files/IHRC-Addameer-Submission-to-HRC-COI-Apartheid-in-WB.pdf

2022 – Al-Haq, Addameer, Habitat International Coalition

• Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole
• https://www.alhaq.org/cached_uploads/download/2022/01/20/final-draft-lynk-s-apartheid-submission-1-1642656045.pdf

2022 – Amnesty International

• Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians – Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity
• https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity/

2022 – Kairos Palestine

• Kairos Palestine welcomes Amnesty International Report: “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity”
• https://www.kairospalestine.ps/images/Statement_Kairos_Palestine_Amnesty_international.pdf

2021 – Human Rights Watch

• A Threshold Crossed – Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheidand Persecution
• https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/04/27/abusive-israeli-policies-constitute-crimes-apartheid-persecution

2021 – B’Tselem

• A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid
• https://www.btselem.org/publications/fulltext/202101_this_is_apartheid

2020 – Yesh Din

• The Occupation of the West Bank and the Crime of Apartheid: Legal Opinion
• https://www.yesh-din.org/en/the-occupation-of-the-west-bank-and-the-crime-of-apartheid-legal-opinion/

So while the pro-Israel lobby here in New Zealand have an “Opinion” that Israel is Not an Apartheid state, the “Facts” Prove that Israel is indeed an Apartheid state.

This debate is over.

It is time that the New Zealand government spoke up on the issue of Israeli Apartheid.