Israeli attorney Michael Sfard writes: At the source of our regime of violence is the worldview of Jewish supremacy, the axiom that we’re eternally on the side of justice, and a refusal to fully recognize the rights of the others living here.
Genocide does not require mass graves; it also includes efforts to destroy a people’s capacity to bring the next generation into being.
Israel’s systematic use of torture and sexual violence against Palestinians meets that definition.
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Israeli human rights organization, B’Tselem, shares horrifying report outlining Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.
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Israeli prisons, in which every Palestinian inmate is intentionally condemned to severe, relentless pain and suffering, operate as de-facto torture camps. Report by B’Tselem, the Israeli information center for human rights in the Occupied Territories.
The prisoners’ hands were cuffed behind their back. They were led to the kitchen, where they were stripped and forced to lie one on top of the other, a pile of 10 naked prisoners… Then the dogs attacked
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