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Wednesday, September 06, 2023

Real human rights and fake human rights

The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights just released its report of human rights violations by Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and Gaza in 2022 (it has not yet been released in English.)Its section on violations against Palestinian human rights activists is summarized:Concerning human rights defenders, the independent commission said: Human rights...

01/02 Links Pt1: UN's advisory board on Israeli 'occupation' is hypocrisy; 'Even animals get better treatment': Tortured by Hamas, man finds refuge in Israel

From Ian: JPost Editorial: UN's advisory board on Israeli 'occupation' is hypocrisy It asked the ICJ to define how Israel’s practices affected the legal status of Israel’s “occupation” of territory over the pre-1967 lines, which would include the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), Gaza (from which Israel unilaterally withdrew in 2005) and east Jerusalem. The UNGA resolution...

The UN Palestinian "NGO Action News" ignores any reports that criticize Palestinian leaders

Every week, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People publishes a newsletter, NGO Action News, where they list out and summarize all of the NGO reports and articles about Palestinians they can find that were published that week. The newsletter is filled with references to reports from Amnesty, Al Haq, Gisha, B'Tselem and lots...

UN Torture Committee goes out of its way to avoid dealing with Palestinian torture

Last July, the UN Committee Against Torture issued a press release that praised the Palestinian Authority for being immensely humane and wonderful. It only had a couple of questions to clear up. But in order to ensure that those questions were not too prominent, they framed the release in terms of praise for how Palestinians are dealing with domestic violence (which is in...

Palestinian media ignoring HRW report that PA, Hamas engage in torture

Human Rights Watch issued a press release describing how Hamas and the Palestinian Authority engage in torturing prisoners that haven't been charged with any crime.As of this writing, I cannot find a single Palestinian news site covering this story.Israeli Arab sites have the story. Pan Arab news sites have it. But Palestinian media - nothing.Usually, Hamas media would highlight...

Hamas and the PA accuse each other of torturing prisoners. (They're both right.)

A family in Gaza has accused Hamas of torturing their son to death in prison.The Al-Hasanat family wrote a letter to various authorities claiming that Nawaf Al-Hasanat, who had a wife and six children, was arrested in November over a land dispute and was in Hamas prison until he died last week.Meanwhile, the PA was accused of torturing Hamas members in a Jericho prison....

Hypocrites decry Israel detaining "child" Ahed Tamimi - but she's a legal adult in "Palestine"

I just received another faux-outrage fundraising email from the "US Campaign for Palestinian Rights" that claims to care about Ahed Tamimi: Ahed Tamimi, the brave Palestinian teenage activist who has experienced untold violence at the hands of the Israeli occupation in her short lifetime, spent her News Year’s Eve in an Israeli prison cell. Ahed will be punished severely...

Even the UN admits the Palestinian Authority uses administrative detention, torture

For years, NGOs and the UN have railed against the supposed inhumanity of Israel's using administrative detention against various terrorist suspects. Which makes this small comment by the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights earlier this month all the more interesting: In the State of Palestine, my Office is also concerned that both the Palestinian Authority and the...

Statistics on Palestinians in Syria that "pro-Palestinian" groups won't mention

Here are some statistics that most "pro-Palestinian" groups won't bother to mention, from the Action Group of Palestinians in Syria's Facebook page: At least 45 Palestinians were recently tortured to death, the number who have been tortured to death in Syrian prisons is now at 333. Jordan had as many as 15,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria but that number has declined...