20 Israeli human rights groups have warned that the new Israeli coalition government the most far-right ever seeks to adopt the annexation and dispossession of more occupied Palestinian lands as an official policy.
“It is already clear that the emerging coalition will be disastrous for human rights between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea” the rights groups said in a joint statement last Thursday.
“Previous Israeli governments have already entrenched military control over millions of Palestinians severely harmed their human rights and made the possibility of a just future more difficult” they affirmed.
“The senior figures in this new government have made it clear that they intend to exacerbate this trend and advance dangerous measures” they added.
The organizations — including Adalah B’Tselem Breaking the Silence Peace Now and Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) — warned that “the occupation and apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories have made Jewish supremacy the de facto law of the land and the new government seeks to adopt this into their official policy.”
“As the mask slips away we will continue to stand firm to protect the human rights of the most vulnerable population in the region” the groups concluded. “We call on everyone for whom the future of this place is important to stand together with us.”
In recent Twitter remarks Peace Now said that thousands took to the streets to “protest against the swearing in of the most fascist racist and settler government in the history of Israel” adding that “Israel is not a democracy as long as the occupation exists.”
