The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced the US House of Representatives for passing a resolution claiming that the Israeli occupation state is &ldquonot a racist or apartheid state.&rdquo
In a statement on Wednesday Hamas condemned the resolution as a flagrant US bias in favor of the occupation state and a step intended to encourage it to persist in its crimes and violations against the Palestinian people especially its ethnic cleansing policy.
&ldquoThis US resolution has ignored the black history of the Zionist occupation which is filled with dozens of massacres and turned a blind eye to the crimes that were committed recently by settler gangs under military protection in Huwara town and dozens of Palestinian villages which were exposed to arson attacks and organized destruction of homes vehicles and farms&rdquo Hamas underscored.
Hamas described the recent settler crimes in the West Bank as &ldquoan example of the racist practices and the ethnic cleansing policy that are pursued by the occupation state against the Palestinian people.&rdquo
&ldquoMany Israeli officials have voiced fascist positions such as the recent remarks of the criminal minister Smotrich in which he gave the Palestinians the choice between living in the so-called state of Israel as second-class citizens or being banished or killed&rdquo the Movement said.
&ldquoSuch a US resolution will not change the reality of the criminal and racist Zionist occupation entity which relies on ethnic cleansing displacing the rightful owners of the land and replacing them with intruders&rdquo it added.
The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling Israel &ldquonot a racist or apartheid state&rdquo on Tuesday
The measure passed in a 412-to-nine vote a few hours after president Joe Biden met with Israeli president Isaac Herzog at the White House.
The legislation comes in response to remarks last Saturday from Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus in which she called Israel a &ldquoracist state.&rdquo
Later the congresswoman apologized following pressures while stressing that Israel’s &ldquoextreme right-wing government has engaged in discriminatory and outright racist policies.&rdquo
