Recorded February 12, 2021

Featuring: Issa Amro (Youth Against Settlements), Hagai El-Ad (B’Tselem), & Noura Erekat (Rutgers University)

In this session we look at human rights conditions in Israel and the occupied territories, with a particular focus on Occupation — what it is, how it affects the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, what it means for Israel’s own citizens and the health of Israel’s democracy.

This webinar is Part 2 of an 8-part series of webinars. For recordings of the other sessions in this series, please click here.

Resources shared during this webinar:

Follow our panelists on Twitter using the following links:

• Hagai El-Ad → @HagaiElAd
• Noura Erakat → @4Noura
• Issa Amro → @Issaamro

From Hagai El-Ad:

• B’Tselem website: https://www.btselem.org/
• B’Tselem’s position paper, “This is Apartheid”
• FMEP webinar on apartheid, featuring Hagai: “Calling the Thing by its Proper Name: “Apartheid” Between the Jordan River & the Mediterranean Sea“
• Analysis and commentary by Hagai El-Ad:
  • “Israel doesn’t need ‘advice’ against annexation — it needs consequences” 
  • “Even under pandemic, Israel can’t treat its subjects as equals”

From Noura Erakat:

• Noura’s Book: “Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine” 
• Analysis & commentary by Noura:
  • “Biden’s early Israel policies show he won’t be much better for Palestinians than Trump”
  • “Trump ‘peace deals’ for Israel, UAE, and Bahrain are shams. They boost oppression, not amity” 
  • “Rethinking Israel-Palestine: Beyond Bantustans, Beyond Reservations”

From/about Issa Amro:

• “I am living under aparthied in Hebron”
• On Issa’s legal case: “For this Hebron activist, every protest could end in a trial”
• Amnesty International statement on Issa’s case

On Hebron: https://www.btselem.org/topic/hebron

On settler violence:

• B’Tselem: “State Backed Settler Violence”
• Yesh Din: “Recent Escalation in Settler Violence Underscores Need for International Intervention”

On abuses by the Palestinian Authority: https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/10/23/two-authorities-one-way-zero-dissent/arbitrary-arrest-and-torture-under

Human rights groups working on the ground:

• Adalah: https://www.adalah.org/en
• Al-Haq: https://www.alhaq.org/
• Al-Mezan: https://www.mezan.org/en/
• Amnesty International: https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/
• Association for Civil Rights in Israel: https://www.english.acri.org.il/
• B’Tselem: https://www.btselem.org/
• Breaking the Silence: www.breakingthesilence.org.il/
• Defense for Children International – Palestine: http://www.dci-palestine.org/
• Gisha: https://gisha.org/
• HaMoked: http://www.hamoked.org/Home.aspx
• Haqel: https://haqel.org.il/
• Human Rights Defenders Fund: http://hrdf.org.il/
• Human Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/north-africa/israel/palestine
• Machsom Watch: https://machsomwatch.org/en
• Military Court Watch: http://www.militarycourtwatch.org/index.php
• Physicians for Human Rights – Israel: https://www.phr.org.il/en/
• Rabbis for Human Rights: https://www.rhr.org.il/eng
• Yesh Din: https://www.yesh-din.org/en/
• Youth Against Settlements: https://www.facebook.com/media.yas/