{"id":88972,"date":"2017-03-20T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=88972"},"modified":"2017-03-20T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T12:56:36","slug":"is-israel-imposing-apartheid-on-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/03\/is-israel-imposing-apartheid-on-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Israel Imposing &#8216;Apartheid&#8217; on Palestinians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mar 16, 2017 &#8211; <\/em>The UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia has issued a report [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/03\/un-sponsored-report-on-israels-responsibility-for-apartheid-in-relation-to-the-palestinian-people\/\" >HERE<\/a>], [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/03\/un-launches-report-on-israeli-practices-towards-the-palestinian-people-and-the-question-of-apartheid\/\" >HERE<\/a>] and [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/03\/un-israeli-practices-towards-the-palestinian-people-and-the-question-of-apartheid-palestine-and-the-israeli-occupation-issue-no-1\/\" >HERE<\/a>], which condemned the Israeli government for its treatment of Palestinians. \u00a0It says Israel is violating three international laws that list apartheid as a crime against humanity. The authors call Israel an apartheid regime, saying it operates a system of divide and rule. But the office of the UN Secretary General has distanced itself from the report. And the Israeli government says it&#8217;s an attempt to smear the only &#8216;true democracy&#8217; in the Middle East. \u00a0So, will this UN report help or hinder the cause of the Palestinians? \u00a0<strong><em>GUESTS:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Virginia Tilley &#8211; Co-author of the UN ESCWA Report and a Political Science Professor at Southern Illinois University. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Robbie Sabel &#8211; Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a former Legal Adviser for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> Mustafa Barghouti &#8211; Leader of the Palestine National Initiative.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KTBBMQKPJfQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 16, 2017 &#8211; The UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia has issued a report which condemned the Israeli government for its treatment of Palestinians. The authors call Israel an apartheid regime, saying it operates a system of divide and rule. But the office of the UN Secretary General has distanced itself from the report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}