You: what Country do you think has got it right in the MENA region in regard to human rights, equal social and civil liberties for women, gays, and all religions????
Me: Not Israel!
Applying the law by ethnicity: Israel’s dual legal systems explained
In the occupied West Bank, everyone is subject to Israeli military law. Unless, of course, you’re an Israeli settler. The dual legal systems — separate laws and court systems for different people in the same territory — are one of the reasons some refer to Israel’s occupation as apartheid.
972 Magazine
January 18, 2019
Apartheid in the Occupied West Bank: A Legal Analysis of Israel’s Actions
Joint Submission to the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry
on the Occupied Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel
International Human Rights Clinic
Harvard Law School
February 28, 2022
(Online so you can read it)
Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians
A look into Decades of Oppression and Domination
Amnesty International’s new investigation shows that Israel imposes a system of oppression and domination against Palestinians across all areas under its control: in Israel and the OPT, and against Palestinian refugees, in order to benefit Jewish Israelis. This amounts to apartheid as prohibited in international law.
Amnesty International
Feb, 1, 2022
Israel adopts divisive law that declares only Jews have the right of self-determination
Although the law is largely symbolic, critics say the legislation is racist in origin and verges on apartheid.
The law stipulates that “Israel is the historic homeland of the Jewish people and they have an exclusive right to national self-determination in it.”
July 19, 2018
NBC News